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To Enable or Disable The Standard Audit Trail
To Enable or Disable The Standard Audit Trail
Before you perform the standard auditing procedures described in this section, you must
enable standard auditing. When you enable standard auditing, you can create the audit trail in
the database audit trail or write the audit activities to an operating system file. If you write to an
operating system file, you can create the audit record in text or XML format.
If the SPFile tab does not display in your installation, then you did not install Oracle Database
using a server parameters file. Go to the next step.
You can enter the first few characters of the parameter, for example, AUDIT_. Alternatively,
you can scroll down the list of parameters to find the AUDIT_TRAIL parameter.
To specify the location of the operating system audit record file, set
the AUDIT_FILE_DEST initialization parameter. The first default directory
is $ORACLE_BASE/admin/$ORACLE_SID/adump.
8. Click Apply.
9. Restart the Oracle Database instance:
You do not need to restart the database if you change the auditing of objects. You only need to
restart the database if you made a universal change, such as turning on or off all auditing or
changing the destination of the audit trail operating system files.
You do not need to set AUDIT_TRAIL to enable either fine-grained auditing or SYS auditing.
(SYS auditing enables you to monitor the activities of a system administrator. See Oracle
Database Security Guide for more information.) For fine-grained auditing, you add and remove
fine-grained auditing policies as necessary, applying them to the specific operations or objects
you want to monitor. You can use the AUDIT_SYS_OPERATIONS parameter to enable and
disable SYS auditing.