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Re: Lots of Oracle10g Audit Log Files, Created every one or two second(s)

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 20:29:42 -0700
Message-ID: <1176521374.931940@bubbleator.drizzle.com>


haiwu.us_at_gmail.com wrote:
> This is Oracle10g RAC, and there are lots of audit log files created
> by default under $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/audit folder, they got created
> every one or two second(s) on each node, for each database instance
> running on this RAC.
>
> The following is one entry. As you can see, it does not have "CLIENT
> TERMINAL" information, and I don't know how to track this to find out
> which processes or application or background process is causing this
> sys login, so frequently.
>
> Any ideas?
> Thanks,
> Hai
>
> Audit file /home/oracle/app/product/10.1.0.4/rdbms/audit/ora_17242.aud
> Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.1.0.4.2 - Production
> With the Partitioning, Real Application Clusters, OLAP and Data Mining
> options
> ORACLE_HOME = /home/oracle/app/product/10.1.0.4
> System name: Linux
> Node name: wpprddb1
> Release: 2.4.21-37.ELsmp
> Version: #1 SMP Wed Sep 7 13:28:55 EDT 2005
> Machine: i686
> Instance name: oid1
> Redo thread mounted by this instance: 1
> Oracle process number: 26
> Unix process pid: 17242, image: oracle_at_wpprddb1 (TNS V1-V3)
>
> Fri Apr 13 17:25:06 2007
> ACTION : 'CONNECT'
> DATABASE USER: '/'
> PRIVILEGE : SYSDBA
> CLIENT USER: oracle
> CLIENT TERMINAL:
> STATUS: 0
SELECT name, value
FROM gv$parameter
WHERE name LIKE '%audit%';

What are you auditing and how?

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace x with u to respond)
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
www.psoug.org
Received on Fri Apr 13 2007 - 22:29:42 CDT

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