Re: What happens to Oracle when sys.aud$ table or Oracle OS Audit file reaches storage capacity?

From: Howard Latham <howard.latham_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 15:46:55 +0000
Message-ID: <713d96d11002260746y2cae7ae5x3fa50087505534a8_at_mail.gmail.com>



Yep it stops!

I also had a problem once where an index on aud$ became corrupt. Had to drop a system index - With Tech Support guidance to get running agan.

On 26 February 2010 15:43, Arnold, Sandra <ArnoldS_at_osti.gov> wrote:

> I am writing an Oracle Security Test plan. One of the controls requires
> Oracle to stop processing transactions if the Oracle OS Audit files or the
> sys.aud$ table reaches storage capacity. I cannot find any documentation
> that lets me know what happens to Oracle when this occurs. Does Oracle
> react the same way as when the Archive Log area reaches storage capacity?
> The version of Oracle that I am using is 11.2.0.1 on Linux x86-64.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sandra Arnold
> Sr. Database Administrator
> OSTI/DOE
> Oak Ridge, TN
>

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