RE: audit_sys_operations apparently not working

  • From: "Chandra Pabba" <Chandra_Pabba@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx>, "'Oracle-L Freelists'" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:41:22 -0600

Jared,

 

On windows, the audit trace information is written to Event Viewer.  See if
you can find the audit traces written to Event viewer.

 

HTH

 

Thanks
Chandra

 

 

From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Jared Still
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 5:29 PM
To: Oracle-L Freelists
Subject: audit_sys_operations apparently not working

 


Platform:  Windows 23k Server SP2 64bit
Oracle: 10.2.0.4 EE

I have two databases for which both audit_file_dest and audit_sys_operations
are set.


NAME                      VALUE
VAL? MOD? MOD?
------------------------- --------------------------------------------------
---- ---- ----
audit_file_dest           D:\ORACLE\ORCL\102\RDBMS\AUDIT
Y    N    D
audit_sys_operations      TRUE
N    N    N
audit_trail               DB
N    N    N

3 rows selected.


Yet I don't find any audit files in audit_file_dest.

Obvious possible problems:
  permissions - Local System user runs the Oracle service, and has full
control of the directory
  full file system - it is not full, 40G free

Even without audit_sys_operations=true, audit logs showing logons by
SYS/SYSDBA should 
appear in the audit_file_dest directory.

Checking a linux 10.2.0.4 database, I find that it works as expected.

Before OYASR (Opening Yet Another Service Request) I thought it would be a
good 
idea to ask here first.  For low priority issues, Oracle-L is usually
faster. :)

So, is there something I am missing, or is it just broke on Windows?

I did search MetaLink^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HMy Oracle Support, but didn't find
anything useful.

Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist

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