Showing posts with label audit. Show all posts
Showing posts with label audit. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Manage Oracle 11gR2 ASM and RDBMS audit logs on Linux.

If you don't change anything after a new 11gR2 ASM and RDBMS installation, your system's local file systems will slowly fill up with several thousands of audit log files. To fix this problem, you can either:

  1. Modify the system's crontab to clean the audit logs directory periodically
  2. Configure both the ASM and the RDBMS audit parameters to use syslog.
The crontab solution is easy, but I prefer the syslog solution because: