Table of Contents
- Title and Copyright Information
- Preface
- Quick Reference for Common Tasks
- 1 Changes in Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall Release 20
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2
Introducing Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall
- 2.1 Downloading the Latest Version of This Manual
- 2.2 Learning About Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall
- 2.3 The Auditor's Role
- 2.4 Understanding Targets
- 2.5 Understanding Firewall Policies
- 2.6 Understanding Audit Policies and Audit Data Collection
- 2.7 Requirements for Collecting Audit Data from Targets
- 2.8 Configuring Alerts and Notifications
- 2.9 Generating Reports
- 2.10 Creating Users and Managing Access
- 2.11 Logging in and Understanding the Audit Vault Server Console UI
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3
Managing Targets
- 3.1 About Managing Targets
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3.2
Viewing and Changing Settings for a Target
- 3.2.1 Viewing Audit Data Collection and Database Firewall Monitoring Details for Targets
- 3.2.2 Scheduling the Retrieval of Audit Settings for an Oracle Database
- 3.2.3 Retrieving User Entitlement Data for Oracle Database Targets
- 3.2.4 Retrieving Security Assessment Data for Oracle Database Targets
- 3.2.5 Retrieving Sensitive Objects for Oracle Database Targets
- 3.2.6 Activating Stored Procedure Auditing
- 3.2.7 Viewing a List of Audit Trails for a Target
- 3.2.8 Selecting a Firewall Policy
- 3.2.9 Viewing a List of Database Firewall Monitoring Points
- 3.2.10 Setting a Data Retention (Archiving) Policy
- 3.3 Creating and Modifying Target Groups
- 3.4 Managing Compliance for Target Databases
- 3.5 Setting Access Rights for Targets and Groups
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4
Managing Access and Other Settings
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4.1
Managing User Accounts and Access
- 4.1.1 About Oracle AVDF Auditor Accounts and Passwords
- 4.1.2 Creating Local Auditor Users
- 4.1.3 Creating New SSO Users
- 4.1.4 Viewing the Status of Auditor User Accounts
- 4.1.5 Managing User Access to Targets or Groups
- 4.1.6 Changing a User Account Type
- 4.1.7 Changing the Auditor Password
- 4.1.8 Deleting an Auditor Account
- 4.2 Creating Templates and Distribution Lists for Email Notifications
- 4.3 Creating Alert Syslog Templates
- 4.4 Viewing Monitoring Point and Audit Trail Status
- 4.5 Monitoring Jobs
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4.1
Managing User Accounts and Access
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5
Managing Global Sets/Data Discovery
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5.1
Global Sets - Oracle AVDF 20.10 and
later
- 5.1.1 About Global Sets
- 5.1.2 Prerequisites for Creating Global Privileged User and Sensitive Object Sets
- 5.1.3 Creating a Global Set
- 5.1.4 Creating Privileged User Sets
- 5.1.5 Creating Sensitive Object Global Sets
- 5.1.6 Viewing Where Global Sets Are Used
- 5.1.7 Modifying Global Sets
- 5.1.8 Understanding the Impact of Modifying Global Sets
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5.2
Data Discovery - Oracle AVDF 20.9
- 5.2.1 About Data Discovery
- 5.2.2 Prerequisites for Creating Global Privileged User and Sensitive Object Sets
- 5.2.3 Creating Privileged User Global Sets
- 5.2.4 Creating Sensitive Object Global Sets
- 5.2.5 Viewing Global Sets
- 5.2.6 Creating Database Firewall Policies from Data Discovery
- 5.2.7 Viewing and Editing Database Firewall Policies
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5.1
Global Sets - Oracle AVDF 20.10 and
later
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6
Creating Audit Policies for Oracle Databases
- 6.1 About Audit Policies
- 6.2 General Steps for Creating Audit Policies for Oracle Databases
- 6.3 Retrieving and Modifying Audit Policies from an Oracle Database
- 6.4 Provisioning Unified Audit Policies
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6.5
Provisioning Traditional Audit
Policies
- 6.5.1 About Creating Audit Policy Settings
- 6.5.2 Specifying which Audit Policies are needed
- 6.5.3 Creating Audit Policies for SQL Statements
- 6.5.4 Creating Audit Policies for Schema Objects
- 6.5.5 Creating Audit Policies for Privileges
- 6.5.6 Creating Audit Policies for Fine-Grained Auditing (FGA)
- 6.5.7 Exporting Audit Settings to a SQL Script
- 6.5.8 Provisioning Traditional Audit Policies from the Audit Vault Server
- 6.6 Viewing Unified Audit Policies
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7
Database Firewall Policies
- 7.1 About Database Firewall Policies
- 7.2 About Database Firewall Deployment Modes and Policies
- 7.3 Types of Database Firewall Policies
- 7.4 Developing a Database Firewall Policy
- 7.5 Creating a New Database Firewall Policy
- 7.6 Configuring the Created Database Firewall Policy
- 7.7 Publishing and Deploying Firewall Policies
- 7.8 Exporting and Importing Database Firewall Policies
- 7.9 Copying a Database Firewall Policy
- 7.10 Editing a Database Firewall Policy
- 7.11 Database Firewall Policy for Capturing Return Row Count
- 7.12 Configuring Firewall Policy for SQL Statements
- 7.13 Blocking SQL and Creating Substitute Statements
- 7.14 SQL Statement Encrypted with Oracle Native Network Encryption
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8
Reports
- 8.1 About the Reports in Audit Vault and Database Firewall
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8.2
Activity Reports
- 8.2.1 About the Activity Reports
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8.2.2
Activity Reports
- 8.2.2.1 About the Activity Reports
- 8.2.2.2 Activity Overview Report
- 8.2.2.3 All Activity Report
- 8.2.2.4 All Activity by Privileged Users
- 8.2.2.5 Data Access Report
- 8.2.2.6 Audit Policy Activity Report
- 8.2.2.7 Data Modification Report
- 8.2.2.8 Data Modification Before-After Values Report
- 8.2.2.9 Database Schema Activity Report
- 8.2.2.10 Entitlement Activity Report
- 8.2.2.11 Failed Login Events Report
- 8.2.2.12 Login and Logout Report
- 8.2.2.13 Startup and Shutdown Report
- 8.2.3 Entitlement Reports
- 8.2.4 OS Correlation Reports
- 8.2.5 Database Firewall Reports
- 8.2.6 Stored Procedure Changes
- 8.2.7 DB Vault Activity
- 8.2.8 Alert Reports
- 8.3 Summary Reports
- 8.4 Compliance Reports
- 8.5 Assessment Reports
- 8.6 AVDF System Reports
- 8.7 Customizing Reports
- 8.8 Creating Non-Interactive Report Templates
- 8.9 Creating and Uploading Your Own Custom Reports
- 8.10 Scheduling and Generating PDF or XLS Reports
- 8.11 Annotating and Attesting Reports
- 8.12 Downloading a Report in HTML or CSV Format
- 8.13 Related Event Data Appendices
- 9 Managing Entitlements
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10
Creating Alerts
- 10.1 About Alerts
- 10.2 Creating Alerts and Writing Alert Conditions
- 10.3 Monitoring Alerts
- 10.4 Responding to an Alert
- 10.5 Creating Custom Alert Status Values
- 10.6 Forwarding Alerts to Syslog
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A
Troubleshooting Oracle Audit Vault and
Database Firewall for Auditors
- A.1 Server Error 500 When Logging Into UI as avauditor
- A.2 Database Firewall Monitored Activity Report - Error Bad Gateway
- A.3 Is the Audit Vault 20.X EVENT_LOG column RECORD_ID Generated Sequentially or Randomly
- A.4 There is No Option to Filter All Activity Report Using Timestamp/Time
- A.5 Issue with Data Population in All Activity by Privileged Users Report in AVDF 20.4 Installation
- A.6 How to Purge Alert Queue and Alert Store
- B Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall Database Schemas
- C Data Warehouse Partition
- D Audit Record Fields
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E
Oracle Database Audit Events
- E.1 About the Oracle Database Audit Events
- E.2 Account Management Events
- E.3 Application Management Events
- E.4 Audit Command Events
- E.5 Data Access Events
- E.6 Database Vault Events
- E.7 Exception Events
- E.8 Invalid Record Events
- E.9 Object Management Events
- E.10 Peer Association Events
- E.11 Role and Privilege Management Events
- E.12 Service and Application Utilization Events
- E.13 System Management Events
- E.14 Unknown or Uncategorized Events
- E.15 User Session Events
- F AIX Audit Events
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G
Sybase ASE Audit Events
- G.1 About the Sybase ASE Audit Events
- G.2 Account Management Events
- G.3 Application Management Events
- G.4 Audit Command Events
- G.5 Data Access Events
- G.6 Exception Events
- G.7 Invalid Record Events
- G.8 Object Management Events
- G.9 Peer Association Events
- G.10 Role and Privilege Management Events
- G.11 Service and Application Utilization Events
- G.12 System Management Events
- G.13 Unknown or Uncategorized Events
- G.14 User Session Events
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H
Microsoft SQL Server SQL Trace Audit Events
- H.1 About the Microsoft SQL Server Audit Events
- H.2 Account Management Events
- H.3 Application Management Events
- H.4 Audit Command Events
- H.5 Data Access Events
- H.6 Exception Events
- H.7 Invalid Record Events
- H.8 Object Management Events
- H.9 Peer Association Events
- H.10 Role and Privilege Management Events
- H.11 Service and Application Utilization Events
- H.12 System Management Events
- H.13 Unknown or Uncategorized Events
- H.14 User Session Events
- H.15 Target Type Values for SQL Trace Audit Events
- H.16 Possible Target Types Values Associated With Certain SQL Trace Audit Events
- I Microsoft SQL Server SQL Audit and Event Log Events
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J
IBM DB2 Audit Events
- J.1 About the IBM DB2 for LUW Audit Events
- J.2 Account Management Events
- J.3 Application Management Events
- J.4 Audit Command Events
- J.5 Context Events
- J.6 Data Access Events
- J.7 Exception Events
- J.8 Execution Event
- J.9 Invalid Record Events
- J.10 Object Management Events
- J.11 Peer Association Events
- J.12 Role and Privilege Management Events
- J.13 Service and Application Utilization Events
- J.14 System Administration Events
- J.15 System Management Events
- J.16 Unknown or Uncategorized Events
- J.17 User Session Events
- J.18 Possible Target Type Values for IBM DB2 Audit Events
- K MySQL Audit Events
- L Solaris Operating System Audit Events
- M Microsoft Windows Operating System Audit Events
- N Linux Operating System Audit Events
- O Oracle ACFS Audit Events
- P Active Directory Audit Events