Are you just trying to audit the use of ALTER SYSTEM? If so, you would probably be better off using native auditing. On Friday, October 3, 2014, Joshua Collier <jcoll1970@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Does anyone know of a trigger that will reliably fire on alter system and > capture the commands via the objects such as : > DBMS_STANDARD.SYSEVENT; > NVL(DBMS_STANDARD.DICTIONARY_OBJ_OWNER,'NULL'); > DBMS_STANDARD.DICTIONARY_OBJ_TYPE; > DBMS_STANDARD.DICTIONARY_OBJ_NAME; > > > I have a trigger that is "on database before alter", however, ALTER SYSTEM > does not trigger it. Either that or I have not yet found the correct > dbms_standard types to capture the output. The trigger right now just > inserts the various type values into a table. For Alter Table it works > great, but ALTER SYSTEM produces nothing. > > Josh C. >