Audit vault 11g course ?

hi all,
i wonder why Oracle has the "11g database: implement database vault" course, but NOT has the course "11g database: implement audit vault" (just has 10g).
does Oracle not improve audit vault any more ?
Regards.

Hi:
I'm not sure I understand the issue. Database Vault is an option of the Oracle database. When the Oracle database changes version to 11+g+, or 11+g+R2, so do its features, including Database Vault. Audit Vault, on the other hand, is a stand-alone solution. It follows its own numbering scheme independent from the database. In that respect, it is like the eBusiness Suite, which is at R12 even though the database is not.

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2. blocking un wanted SQL statements.
3. blocking un wanted IPs/Users
Our two Physcial servers that will be used for Audit Vault and DB Firewalls contain two NIC each.
My Questions:
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please any usefull documents, links, ideas, network design
I tried official Oracle Document, it is useless

hi,
1. if you plan to block sql using the firewall you will need 3 NICs in the firewall appliance since apart from the management interface you will need to setup a bridge (with 2 NICs) to physically route the traffic through the firewall, this also requires you to patch the appliance properly inside your datacenter between the protected database and the client or middle tier servers, so you can't do this w/o changing anything in your nw configuration.
2. you will need to compile a whitelist based on what your trusted applications are doing normally, this is an iterative process, then the firewall will be able to block sql not in the whitelist (replace it with something like select 1 from dual), since the only physical network path from the java clients to the secured target db goes via the bridge
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Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall implementaion

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If changing the hostname of the Audit Vault Server version 12.1.2 please wait until the system reboots automatically.

Hi everyone
when changing the hostname of an AV Server in the newly released version 12.1.2, it can take up to 10 minutes from the time a user click ok on the pop-up message "Are you sure you want to reboot the Audit Vault Server for the changes to take affect" to the system actually shutting down for the reboot. The machine must not be manually rebooted as this will cause errors.
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greetings,
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I have three hosts two with windows server and oracle database 10g on each server and the third is a linux server with 11g database i want to colect informacion about operative system, database audit and redo log in this tree hosts. How is the license? How many licenses of
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Contact your salesperson with respect to licensing. It would be inappropriate for any of us, in this forum, to attempt to speak on behalf of Oracle.
It isn't Q4 yet so they don't bite. <g>
As to where agents should be installed ... it is well documented if you look here:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/audit-vault/index.html
or read the installation docs.
But again contact your sales person. They have a sales engineer on their team that can advise you.

Audit vault vs auditing of access

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http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/11g/auditing-enhancements-11gr2.php
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E14072_01/network.112/e10574/auditing.htm
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it consolidate data from all source Once consolidated, Oracle Audit Vault removes audit data from the source systems where the audit data was generated, simplifying the management of auditing across the enterprise
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/products/audit-vault/overview/index.html
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I'd like to help you but it seems to me, from the perspective of the purpose of Audit Vault, that putting a secure repository on top of an insecure operating system is a non sequitur.
Thus all of my installs have been on Oracle Enterprise Linux and I've never seen any installation-related issues such as you are reporting.
If you can I would suggest getting, as they say, "a real operating system."
Performance will improve, hardware utilization will improve, security will improve, and as an additional advantage, this issue will disappear.

Error while trying to start Audit Collector on the Audit Vault Server 10g

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We are trying to build a demo environment for testing Oracle Audit Vault 10g but we are having some trouble.
Our environment is like this: Oracle Audit Vault Server is installed on Windows Server 2003 SP2, while the Audit Vault Agent is installed on an Oracle 10g Release 2 database which resided on Windows server 2003 SP1. This two Windows Server machines are both installed as virtual machines.
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Can i use Oracle Database Audit Vault and Oracle Database Firewall on Solaris?

Can i use Oracle Database Audit Vault and Oracle Database Firewall on Solaris?

4195bee8-4db0-4799-a674-18f89aa500cb wrote:
i dont have access to My Oracle Support can u send text or html of document please?
Moderator Action:
No they cannot send you a document that is available only to those with access to MOS.
That would violate the conditions of having such service contract credentials.
Asking someone to violate such privileges is a serious offense and could get that other person's organization banned from all support and all their support contracts cancelled.
Your post is locked.
Your duplicate post that you placed into the Audit Vault forum space has been removed (it had no responses).
This thread which you had placed in the Solaris 10 forum space is moved to the Audit Vault forum space.
That's the proper location for Audit Vault questions.

Failing 10.2.3.2 audit vault patch on AV Agent at AV Configuation Assistant

Hi,
Applying 10.2.3.2 audit vault patch on top of 10.2.3.0 Audit Vault Agent. Getting following error after 100% installation at the time of Audit Vault Configuation Assistant Components
Information from Installxxxxxx.log
OPatch succeeded.
INFO: Configuration assistant "Oracle Audit Vault Agent One-Off Patches" succeeded
INFO: Command = oracle.av.common.AvcaCfgPlugIn /oracle/app/oracle/product/10.2.3/av_1/bin/avca -s initialize_agent -agentname agent_hmrac2 -agentusr ${s_agentusr} -agentport 7016 -av HMCSPV0921.HIGHMARK.INTRA:1522:av.HIGHMARK.INTRA -rmiport 3121 -jmsport 3300
INFO: Configuration assistant "Oracle Audit Vault Configuration Assistant" succeeded
INFO: All the tools have been executed Successfully
INFO: The "/oracle/app/oracle/product/10.2.3/av_1/cfgtoollogs/configToolAllCommands" script contains all commands to be executed by the configuration assistants. This file may be used to run the configuration assistants outside of OUI. Note that you may have to update this script with passwords (if any) before executing the same.
WARNING:
The following configuration scripts need to be executed as the "root" user.
#!/bin/sh
#Root script to run
/oracle/app/oracle/product/10.2.3/av_1/root.sh
To execute the configuration scripts:
1. Open a terminal window
2. Log in as "root"
3. Run the scripts
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INFO:
*** End of Installation Page***
The installation of Oracle Audit Vault Agent 10g was successful.
WARNING: Do you really want to exit?
INFO: User Selected: Yes/OK
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[oracle@HMCSPS02 oui]$ cat "/oracle/app/oracle/product/10.2.3/av_1/cfgtoollogs/configToolAllCommands"
# Copyright (c) 1999, 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved.
/oracle/app/oracle/product/10.2.3/av_1/bin/avca apply_patchset
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/oracle/app/oracle/product/10.2.3/av_1
[oracle@HMCSPS02 oui]$ sh /oracle/app/oracle/product/10.2.3/av_1/bin/avca apply_patchset
Deploying to standalone OC4J...
Restarting agent ...
Agent restarted successfully.
Retried component but again failed. Hence executed root.sh and clicked 'Next' button. then message got like 'Agent 10.2.3.2 Installation was successful but some of the components missing,skipped or cancelled which may be functioning properly.
has my patch upgrade to client was successful or what is the workaround ???
Any help on this would be appreciated...
Regards,
Manish

Sorry, it was my mistake.
Actually while upgradation to 10.2.3.2, my ORACLE_HOME was not set to AV Agent HOME (instead it was set for AV Server HOME). That is why at the end script was unable to run from respective HOME.
Conclusion: Make sure to set ORACLE_HOME to AV Agent HOME before applying to 10.2.3.2 patchset to AV Agent. (also Valid for all Oracle Patchset Installation)
thanks for your support and reply.
Regards,
Manish

Oracle Audit Vault installation fails on DVCA assistant + libpthread.so.0

Hello experts, I did this post at general forums but nobody noticed anything, I need your help
I am able to install the Oracle Audit Vault Server on the following features:
OS: Suse Linux 10 SP 2
Clusterware version: 11.1.0 6
The Oracle Audit Vault server installation procces creates the database an starts the instances on each node and notice me the url for the Enterprise Manager but after that it fails at DVCA assistante because is not able to load the shared library libpthread.so.0.
I found in internet that some time there are files like srvctl, vipca, etc tha export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL ant we have to comment that line, but I do not found the line in those files. I just found in the crsctl file this line like
LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=
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PD: The libpthread.so.0 library already exist
Should I comment this line at crsctl file?
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Here you are the error messages:
Is the Oracle Audit Vault server 10.2.3
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/opt/oracle/product/av -s_path /opt/oracle/oradata/ -logfile
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seguridad1.min2.dtc -lockout
MANAGE_LISTENER start listener
MANAGE_LISTENER start listener
result=/opt/oracle/product/av/bin/dvca_start_listener.sh,127,/opt/oracle/product/av/jdk/jre/bin/java:
error while loading shared libraries: libpthread.so.0: cannot open shared
object file: No such file or directory
MANAGE_LISTENER start listener log=
MANAGE_INSTANCE start RDBMS
MANAGE_INSTANCE start RDBMS
result=/opt/oracle/product/av/bin/dvca_start_rdbms.sh,127,/opt/oracle/product/av/jdk/jre/bin/java:
error while loading shared libraries: libpthread.so.0: cannot open shared
object file: No such file or directory
MANAGE_INSTANCE start RDBMS log=
Executing task SQLPLUS_CATOLS
Executing task RESTART_SERVICES_OLS
MANAGE_INSTANCE stop isqlplus
MANAGE_INSTANCE stop OC4J
MANAGE_LISTENER start listener
MANAGE_LISTENER start listener
result=/opt/oracle/product/av/bin/dvca_start_listener.sh,127,/opt/oracle/product/av/jdk/jre/bin/java:
error while loading shared libraries: libpthread.so.0: cannot open shared
object file: No such file or directory
MANAGE_LISTENER start listener log=
MANAGE_INSTANCE start RDBMS
MANAGE_INSTANCE start RDBMS
result=/opt/oracle/product/av/bin/dvca_start_rdbms.sh,127,/opt/oracle/product/av/jdk/jre/bin/java:
error while loading shared libraries: libpthread.so.0: cannot open shared
object file: No such file or directory
MANAGE_INSTANCE start RDBMS log=
Executing task SQLPLUS_CATMAC
connect SYS:java.sql.SQLException: ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
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Is the Audit Vault Server Installation compatible with CRS version 11.1.0.6

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any usefull link would be helpfull
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