12.11 Deprecated Oracle Trace File Analyzer Masking in Release 24.1

Starting with Oracle Autonomous Health Framework 24.1, the Oracle Trace File Analyzer masking feature is deprecated, and can be desupported in a future release.

Deprecating certain AHF features with limited adoption enables Oracle to focus on improving core features and functionality of AHF. Instructing TFA to mask sensitive data was an optional configuration choice enabled by creating a file named mask_strings.xml in the directory tfa_home/resources. Oracle recommends the AHF feature Adaptive Classification and Redaction (ACR) that is used to mask or redact sensitive data. The mask operation is enacted for all diagnostic collections with the command: tfactl set redact=mask|sanitize. Enable for a single collection by adding -mask or -sanitize to tfactl diagcollect. ACR is installed with AHF.