OS data in Audit Vault

Hi folks!
In the documentation on the Audit Vault webpage it is said that it is possible to get OS data into the Audit Vault.
However I do not see this in the documentation. So my question is : How can I get data from the OS (log data) into the Audit Vault?
cu
Andreas

Oracle creates OS files that contain Database audit trail information. We are looking to extract OS audit infomation from the syslog in a future release.
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Copyright (c) 1991, 2011, Oracle. All rights reserved.
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