How To Verify, View, and Turn Off Oracle 12c Audits
How To Verify, View, and Turn Off Oracle 12c Audits
How To Verify, View, and Turn Off Oracle 12c Audits
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
To see which users or roles have been enabled to be audited by policies in the
database, type
SELECT *
FROM AUDIT_UNIFIED_ENABLED_POLICIES;
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.
In 12c the unified audit trail simplifies viewing and reporting audit information.
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.