1. Oracle Database Security Assessment Tool User Guide
  2. Discoverer Prerequisites

Discoverer Prerequisites

The Discoverer is an Oracle Java program and requires the Oracle Java Runtime Environment (Oracle JRE) 17 (Oracle JDK 17) or later to run.

The JAVA_HOME environment variable must be set and should point to the installation directory on your system, which contains the bin and lib directories. For example:

$ export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/jdk-17.0.14-oracle-x64/

The Discoverer collects metadata from database dictionary views and matches them against the patterns specified to discover sensitive data. The Discoverer must connect to the database as a user with sufficient privileges to select from these views. For more information about DBSAT user privileges, see Collector prerequisites.

Note:

  • The Discoverer component of DBSAT requires Oracle JDK 17 at minimum. For IBM AIX, Oracle Solaris, and HP-UX Itanium platforms, you should run the Discoverer remotely from a separate laptop or server.
  • The Discoverer relies on table statistics to get row counts. In order to get accurate row count results, DBMS_STATS should be executed by the Database Administrator before the DBSAT user runs the Discoverer.