Release of Audit Vault and Database Firewall 12.1.2 Bundle Patch 5

Today Oracle released the new Bundle Patch for Audit Vault and Database Firewall 12.1.2. The patch can be downloaded as usual on Oracle Metalink as Patchset 20829881 for existing installations. The full installation image for new installations is not yet available on Oracle eDelivery. I guess this will follow in a couple of days. Beside the Bundle Patch, Oracle also updated the Backup Script to the latest Release.

According the readme, the Release 12.1.2 BP5 contains the April 2015 Patch Set Update for the database as well several bug fix for the base platform. These include security and stability fixes to Java and the underlying Linux operating system plus the bug fix for the following bugs:

Bug Number Description
18730748 THE AUDIT TRAILS CANNOT GET DATA FROM DATABASES CONFIGURED FOR SSL
18081207 PGA_AGGREGATE_LIMIT HIT WHEN QUERYING RECORDS FROM V$UNIFIED_AUDIT_TRAIL
18349496 FOR MSSQL TRACE FILES, COLLECTOR IS NOT COLLECTING THE DATA FROM ACTIVE FILE
20488901 MISSING MAPPING OF CLIENT_IP
17830617 TRANSACTION LOG AUDIT TRAIL CRASHES
20688669 ORA-20105: FAILED TO REMOVE FIREWALL CERTIFICATE FROM ORACLE WALLET

Patch installation

The patch installation is rather simple. Most important is that the following directories have enough free space:

  • 5 GB in /var/lib/oracle
  • 5 GB in /var/tmp
  • 4.5 GB in /root

To install the patch just copy the iso to the AVDF server and run the ruby script. Alternatively you may also mount the iso directly on the Server instead of copy it first. eg. if you run your AVDF in a VM environment. Detailed installation instruction could be taken from the Patch Readme


[root@melete ~]# mount /dev/cdrom /images
mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only

[root@melete ~]# yum -c /images/upgrade.repo clean all
Cleaning up Everything

[root@melete ~]# /usr/bin/ruby /images/upgrade.rb
Verifying upgrade preconditions
Mounting boot partition
Removing obsolete files and packages
Applying kernel upgrade
Upgrading system
Remove media and reboot now to fully apply changes.

[root@melete ~]# /sbin/reboot

Broadcast message from root (pts/0) (Fri May 15 13:40:50 2015):

The system is going down for reboot NOW!




AVDF Backup

Beside the Bundle Patch, Oracle also updated the AVDF Backup Script to match the latest Release. The script itself did not change. Oracle just added the product version 12.1.2.5.0. See Audit Vault Server Backup and Restore for Release 12.1.2.5.0 and Prior [1556200.1] for more information on the backup script.

References

Some links related to the Audit Vault and Database Firewall: