Category: Audit Vault and Database Firewall

Audit Vault and Database Firewall 12.2

Oracle has just released a new major Release of its Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall. The new release is immediately available on Oracle’s Software Delivery Cloud. But the OTN website have not been updated. Beside the upgrade of the OS and embedded Oracle Database to 12.1.0.2, Oracle added a bunch of Enterprise-Grade Features. Starting […]

Release of Audit Vault and Database Firewall 12.1.2 Bundle Patch 7

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 21920205 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 […]

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 […]

Release of Audit Vault and Database Firewall 12.1.2 Bundle Patch 2

End of last week, Oracle has released the second Bundle Patch for Audit Vault and Database Firewall 12.1.2. I’ve missed the release due to public holiday here in Switzerland. 🙂 The patch can be downloaded as usual on Oracle Metalink as Patchset 19190265 for existing installations or on Oracle eDelivery as full installation image for […]

Release of Audit Vault and Database Firewall 12.1.2 Bundle Patch 1

Earlier today, Oracle has released the first Bundle Patch for Audit Vault and Database Firewall 12.1.2. The patch can be downloaded on Oracle Metalink as Patchset 18728905 for existing installations or on Oracle eDelivery as full installation image for new installations. The installation image is split in two parts which need to be merged before […]

Update: AVDF installation fails on HP server with Smart Array

A couple of days ago I’ve wrote about some problems when installing Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall 12.1.2 on HP server with Smart Array Disk Controller. The problem is still not resolved, but in the meantime Oracle has open a Bug and added some Metalink Notes related to this issue. AVDF 12.1.1 Installation Fails […]

AVDF installation ISO

Due to some problems during the installation of Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall 12.1.2 (see AVDF installation fails on HP server with Smart Array Disk Controller), I’ve looked at the AVDF ISO image and its kickstart setup. AVDF 12.1.2 is based on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.9. To setup or upgrade AVDF it is required […]

Audit Vault and Database Firewall 12.1.2

Oracle has just released a new Release of its Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall. The new release is immediately available on Oracle’s Software Delivery Cloud. It look’s like Oracle added a bunch of Enterprise-Grade Features like iSCSI SAN Disk, NFS Storage as well as SYSLOG integration. Starting with this Release, the Audit Vault Repository […]

Update: Oracle and OpenSSL ‘Heartbleed’ vulnerability

While writing a post about the new Critical Patch Advisory I’ve discovered, that Oracle made the Information about the OpenSSL Vulnerability publicly available. The information in MOS Note 1645479.1 has been moved to OpenSSL Security Bug – Heartbleed CVE-2014-0160. Until now it looks like that Oracle Databases are not affected since they do not use […]

Oracle and OpenSSL ‘Heartbleed’ vulnerability

Earlier this week the OpenSSL Project as well US-CERT informed about a Security Vulnerability in OpenSSL. See OpenSSL Security Advisory or US-CERT Alert (TA14-098A) The vulnerability may affect Oracle Products as well, since some of them do use OpenSSL. So far Oracle did not provide dedicate information on it’s public Critical Patch Updates and Security […]

AVCLI doubles audit trails, bug or feature?

I’ve start using the AV command line interface to administer AVDF. I use the tool fairly often to start, stop and monitor the audit trails. But recently I ran in a small issue after a typo. I just want to start the audit trail on the ADUMP directory of a database. AVCLI> LIST TRAIL FOR […]

AVCLI Audit Vault command line interface

When I started to deal with Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall (AVDF), I have always worked with the Web console. Since a few weeks I regularly use the AVCLI and start to like it. It is a simple java based command line utility, from which you can access Audit Vault and Database Firewall servers. […]

Update agent.jar on audit vault server

As I wrote in my post Error installing Audit Vault Agent 12.1.1 on AIX, there is a Audit Vault Agent bug 17058352 on AIX. Unfortunately it hasn’t yet been fixed in the latest bundle patch for Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall. If you haven’t changed your default profile in /etc/profile on your AIX server, […]

AVDF missing boot partition

While working on the problem with missing RAM on the AVDF test system (see ) I realized, that the linux boot partition is not available by default. [root@melete2 log]# ls -al /boot total 16 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 11 2013 . drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Jul 11 20:19 .. [root@melete2 log]# df […]

Audit Vault and Database Firewall 12.1.1 Bundle Patch 1

Oracle just released the new bundle patch for Audit Vault and Database Firewall 12.1.1. The patch can be downloaded on metaling as RPM patch set for existing installations or as full installation images for new installations. According the readme, the BP1 contains the July 2013 PSU 11.2.0.3.7 for the database as well several bug fix […]

AVDF Linux kernel could not recognize whole RAM

After initial setup of an Audit Vault and Database Firewall engineering system, I’ve started to add several audit vault agents and secure targets. In the beginning it went quite smoothly. But after a certain number of secured targets, there were continuously ORA-04031 errors. Most of the errors were related to large pool and PX Msg […]

Error installing Audit Vault Agent 12.1.1 on AIX

The Problem During the setup of the current audit vault agent 12.1.1 on AIX, I’ve run into issues. Depending on the configuration of the AIX environment, the agent can not be installed at all. avagent@host:/u00/app/avagent/ [avagent] java -jar agent.jar -d /u00/app/avagent/product/avagent /u00/app/avagent/product/avagent/bin/agentctl[56]: LOGNAME: is read only Error while executing command: [sh, /u00/app/avagent/product/avagent/bin/agentctl, fixperms] avagent@host:/u00/app/avagent/ [avagent] […]