In message <7765c8971001250622w6456218bs62ad20c5a6ecb25@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx> writes
Hi all Does anyone know how DBA_FEATURE_USAGE_STATISTICS is populated? I'm prepared for the "of course not because then people could circumvent the tests" answer. In particular I'm interested in how Advanced Security (the licensable option) is detected since it appears from my tests that creating external users using windows authentication (CREATE USER "OPS$DOMAIN\USERNAME" IDENTIFIED EXTERNALLY;) will trigger the detection of ASO.
I looked into this a while ago. IIRC, local windows accounts don't trigger it, but domain accounts do. It seems to count as GLOBAL authentication.
There is a process which runs once a week or so which populates DFUS. I couldn't find out what it was so I had to wait a week between every stage of my testing. Needless to say I didn't take it very far.
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