What about audit vault?

Hello all,
We are searching for a tool to set monitoring and set alerts for Oracle and SQLServer Databases, as per what I've found seems that Audit Vault is a nice option...
however I would like to know opinions from people who already implemented this technology...
Has this tool helped as much as you expected from the security/auditing perspective?
What about performance on the databases you needed to audit?
Any other comment would be welcome aswell...
Regards,
Alvaro.

We've implemented Audit Vault and I can tell you it's not trivial. It's a resource hog and it has full of holes. The custom report is not very good either. We probably going to ditch this solution in favor of a 3rd party tool. Looks like your requirement is to audit both Oracle and SQL server so there are tools out there you should take a look at. We have several type of databases here but only need to audit Oracle. A tool we eventually settle on is from Blue Core Research called Core Audit. It's working out well for us so far. Unfortunately, they don't have SQL server but they said they will soon.

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Does anyone know where I can find information about audit vault or even a download?
I have done a search on audit vault, but have got limited useful returns.
Any direction is helpful.
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I think Audit Vault is not yet released.(Last week i attended Oracle seminar on DB Security Compliance and informed that its going to happen within another 1 or 2 months)
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2. Your advice is totally irresponsible in all respects. The proper way to administer the product is in compliance with the documentation. There is no rational reason to do what you suggest.
Were you an employee of mine, working on an audit vault project, you'd be terminated tomorrow morning when you walked through the door.
Again: your advice is misguided and totally irresponsible.

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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.
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Performance will improve, hardware utilization will improve, security will improve, and as an additional advantage, this issue will disappear.

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