1- disable Audit Trail?

From the System Administrator responsibility under the 11i APPL_TOP, navigate to Security > Audit Trail > Groups. In the Audit Groups window, set the Group State field to Disable - Prepare for Archive for each audit group defined. Run the Audit Trail Update Tables report from the Submit Requests window (Requests > Run).

1) Logon to system with System Administrator responsibility. 2) Make sure the profile AuditTrail:Activate is set to Yes 3) Check the audited table's owner

select owner from dba_tables where table_name like 'FND_PROFILE_OPTION_VALUES';

The owner is APPLSYS. 4) Check that audit is enabled for APPLSYS user Go to: Security -> AuditTrail -> Install -> Query for APPLSYS

The AuditTrail could be stopped by 3 ways:

1) Disable Prepare for Archive 2) Disable Interrupt Audit 3) Disable Purge Table I've tried the third only It deletes the data from the shadow table and drops all the audit objects from database. 1) Login to application and choose the System Administrator responsibility. 2) Security -> AuditTrail -> Groups 3) Query for your group 4) Update the Group State field to: Disable Purge Table. 5) Run the AuditTrail Update Tables concurrent to make the changes.

2- Shut down application tier listeners and concurrent managers