Right, from the documentation it looks like that sort of a shorthand option
for DDL just isn't offered.
Maybe you could get what you need with the enable_ddl_logging
<https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/19/refrn/ENABLE_DDL_LOGGING.html#GUID-6FBA6147-D545-4E7D-94F0-A97EC1C721AE>
parameter. I've never used it, so I cannot say whether it captures user or
session information.
Andy
On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 2:00 PM Cee Pee <carlospena999@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks Andy and Mark. Perhaps I should have been clearer earlier. We want
to capture all DDL and DML statements (executed by all end users). There
are not very many concurrent users in the system, at most there will be 3
to 5 concurrent users, normally a couple of them. The queries run in terms
of minutes, not seconds. So auditing all DDL and DML statements will not
cause a big overhead.
Andy, per the manual "create audit policy all_actions_pol actions all"
only captures DDL statements. It would be nice to know if there is an
equivalent for DML.
On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 10:25 AM Powell, Mark <mark.powell2@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
Cee Pee, what you have stated you want to do involves a lot of
performance overhead and storage space. Personally, I do not think it is
a practical requirement and you can find support for my position in various
Oracle support documents.
"Auditing everything is not realistic. Auditing specific sensitive
columns is what is intended."
12c Unified Auditing used with Data Guard (Doc ID 2021747.1)
Mark Powell
Database Administration
(313) 592-5148
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*Subject:* Re: Auditing with Unified audit
'Drop table' is not an auditable action. See table 13-1 in the
documentation
<https://clicktime.symantec.com/38h79ECGzGM1s79q6RbhgHx6xn?u=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.oracle.com%2Fen%2Fdatabase%2Foracle%2Foracle-database%2F19%2Fsqlrf%2FCREATE-AUDIT-POLICY-Unified-Auditing.html%23GUID-8D6961FB-2E50-46F5-81F7-9AEA314FC693>
for the auditable actions.
You'll want to create the policy as such:
create audit policy all_actions_pol actions all;
And then enable it for all users:
audit policy all_actions_pol
Alternately you can enable it for all users with some exceptions:
audit policy all_actions_pol;
except dbsnmp;
Andy
On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 3:29 PM Cee Pee <carlospena999@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
All,
Requirement: we want all actions, including DDL and DML by all users to
be captured and want to see the SQL statements executed. v19c
I am reading up on Unified auditing. So far I have not come across one
command that will let me do it. I am looking for something like "CREATE
AUDIT POLICY test_policy audit all by <user>" or preferably one option to
audit all actions by all users in one command. Doing it for every table is
painful and new tables (sometimes even new schemas) get created regularly.
This is not an OLTP system so not lots of queries but we have long running
queries by a handful of users (less than 8). So there is going to be little
overhead. Company security wants all actions by all users to be captured.
It seems there is a command to audit all system actions ("CREATE AUDIT
POLICY all_actions_pol ACTIONS ALL") which doesnt seem to capture a drop
table action by a user when I tested; the Unified Audit option is set to
true in DB after relinking binaries and I also executed
flush_unified_audit_trail after the drop table session user logged off his
session.
By the way, we are open to doing either traditional or unified auditing.
CP.
