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How to track logon and logout activity in Oracle?
You would enable auditing in the database and audit connects. This will record the login/logout activity into the audit trail. The audit trail is either a database table OR the system event log (OS specific as to where that is). If you are using the database table, creating a flat file is trivial (simple query and spool from sqlplus).
What are the Oracle database user session audit events?
Table C-14 lists the Oracle Database unknown or uncategorized audit events and the equivalent Oracle AVDF events. User session events track audited authentication events for users who log in to the database. Table C-15 lists the Oracle Database user session audit events and the equivalent Oracle AVDF events.
How to get user logon session times from the event log?
When Active Directory (AD) auditing is setup properly, each of these logon and logoff events are recorded in the event log of where the event happened from. With enough scripting kung-fu or specialized software we could, fairly easily, pull all of these logon and logoff events since each event has a unique ID.
How is audit account logon events policy defined?
Audit Account Logon Events policy defines the auditing of every event generated on a computer, which is used to validate the user attempts to log on to or log off from another computer. Such account logon events are generated and stored on the domain controller, when a domain user account is authenticated on that domain controller.
Where do I find the audit log in Oracle?
When you use standard auditing, Oracle Database writes the audit records to either to DBA_AUDIT_TRAIL (the SYS.AUD$ table), the operating system audit trail, or to the DBA_COMMON_AUDIT_TRAIL view, which combines standard and fine-grained audit log records. SQL> audit session by access; Audit succeeded.
What to do if logon to Oracle is not working?
If they are not working, you may not logon to Oracle. – You must have the CREATE (ANY) TRIGGER and ADMINISTER DATABASE TRIGGER privileges to implement DATABASE triggers. I hate writing code when a simple command would do the trick.
Are there problems using logon and logoff triggers?
There is one problem using logon and logoff triggers when a user have multiple instances, the session id that is captured during logon trigger is diferent from the session id that i am catching during logoff trigger, can u tell me why it is so. You cannot know what application users are connecting from.