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How To Verify, View, and Turn Off Oracle 12c Audits

The document discusses how to view and manage auditing in Oracle 12c. It provides the following key points: - The AUDIT_UNIFIED_POLICIES view shows which system privileges are configured for auditing. - The AUDIT_UNIFIED_ENABLED_POLICIES view shows which users and roles have been enabled for auditing by specific policies. - The UNIFIED_AUDIT_TRAIL view can be queried to see audit entries for a specific user, including the timestamp, program, action taken, and associated policy. - Auditing can be turned off by removing users and privileges from the enabled policies view or removing policies from the unified policies view.

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How To Verify, View, and Turn Off Oracle 12c Audits

The document discusses how to view and manage auditing in Oracle 12c. It provides the following key points: - The AUDIT_UNIFIED_POLICIES view shows which system privileges are configured for auditing. - The AUDIT_UNIFIED_ENABLED_POLICIES view shows which users and roles have been enabled for auditing by specific policies. - The UNIFIED_AUDIT_TRAIL view can be queried to see audit entries for a specific user, including the timestamp, program, action taken, and associated policy. - Auditing can be turned off by removing users and privileges from the enabled policies view or removing policies from the unified policies view.

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How to Verify, View, and Turn Off Oracle

12c Audits
After you turn on auditing in the database, keep track of the audits that you enact so you know
what you’ve done. Luckily, Oracle 12c provides a few views in the database to help you keep
track of your actions:

 To verify what system privileges you configured for auditing, use the view
AUDIT_UNIFIED_POLICIES.
 To see what privileges are being audited by default for specific policies, type

SELECT POLICY_NAME, AUDIT_OPTION, AUDIT_OPTION_TYPE


FROM AUDIT_UNIFIED_POLICIES
where policy_name = 'ORA_SECURECONFIG'
order by policy_name, AUDIT_OPTION;

You see something like this:

POLICY_NAME AUDIT_OPTION AUDIT_OPTION_TYPE


-------------------- ----------------------------------- ------------
-----
ORA_SECURECONFIG ADMINISTER KEY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM PRIVILEGE
ORA_SECURECONFIG ALTER ANY PROCEDURE SYSTEM PRIVILEGE
ORA_SECURECONFIG ALTER ANY SQL TRANSLATION PROFILE SYSTEM
PRIVILEGE
ORA_SECURECONFIG ALTER ANY TABLE SYSTEM PRIVILEGE
ORA_SECURECONFIG ALTER DATABASE SYSTEM PRIVILEGE
ORA_SECURECONFIG ALTER DATABASE LINK STANDARD ACTION
ORA_SECURECONFIG ALTER PROFILE STANDARD ACTION
ORA_SECURECONFIG ALTER ROLE STANDARD ACTION
ORA_SECURECONFIG ALTER SYSTEM SYSTEM PRIVILEGE
ORA_SECURECONFIG ALTER USER STANDARD ACTION
<output truncated for space...>

 To see which users or roles have been enabled to be audited by policies in the
database, type

SELECT *
FROM AUDIT_UNIFIED_ENABLED_POLICIES;

You should see something like this:

USER_NAME POLICY_NAME ENABLED_ SUC FAI


--------- -------------------------- -------- --- ---
HR TABLE_POLICY BY YES YES
HR DROP_ANY_TABLE_FAIL_POLICY BY NO YES
OE HR_EMP_SELECT BY YES YES
ALL USERS ORA_SECURECONFIG BY YES YES

The last two columns, SUC and FAI, stand for SUCCESS or FAILURE. You can
capture an audit for SUCCESS or FAILURE or both. The policy you created,
DROP_ANY_TABLE_FAIL_POLICY, captures only the times when a drop table
fails.
How to view audit information with Oracle 12c
After configuring for and turning on auditing, see what audit data is being collected.

 DBA_AUDIT_TRAIL shows all audit entries in the system.


 DBA_AUDIT_OBJECT shows all audit entries in the system for objects.
 DBA_AUDIT_STATEMENT shows audit entries for the statements GRANT,
REVOKE, AUDIT, NOAUDIT, and ALTER SYSTEM.
 DBA_AUDIT_SESSION shows audit entries for the CONNECT and DISCONNECT
actions.

In 12c the unified audit trail simplifies viewing and reporting audit information.

To see all the audits captured for the HR user, type

SELECT EVENT_TIMESTAMP, CLIENT_PROGRAM_NAME, ACTION_NAME,


UNIFIED_AUDIT_POLICIES
FROM UNIFIED_AUDIT_TRAIL
WHERE DBUSERNAME = 'HR'
ORDER BY EVENT_TIMESTAMP DESC;

You might see something like this:

EVENT_TIMESTAMP CLIENT_PROG ACTION_NAME UNIFIED_AUDIT_POLICY


---------------------------- ----------- --------------- ------------------
--
29-JUN-13 04.11.08.472263 PM sqlplus.exe CREATE TABLE TABLE_POLICY
29-JUN-13 04.10.23.333411 PM sqlplus.exe LOGON ORA_SECURECONFIG
29-JUN-13 04.06.03.025363 PM sqlplus.exe LOGOFF ORA_SECURECONFIG
29-JUN-13 04.01.04.588854 PM sqlplus.exe LOGON ORA_SECURECONFIG
29-JUN-13 01.58.25.908652 PM sqlplus.exe LOGOFF ORA_SECURECONFIG

Specific columns are selected. This output shows that the HR user created a table as well as
the logon and logoff activity. Try your own queries to see what kind of information you can
get.

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