Adding or Dropping SAN Disks in the Audit Vault Server Repository

Find out about storage area network (SAN) disk groups, and how to add or drop them from the Oracle Audit Vault Server repository.

About Disk Groups in the Oracle Audit Vault Server Repository

You can add disk groups for the three data types to the repository, and you can make these disk groups highly available.

Log in to the Oracle Database Security Central console as super administrator. Select Settings, and then select Storage in the left navigation menu. The Repository sub can be accessed from the main page.

Adding Disk Groups to the Repository sub

There are three disk groups used for storing Oracle Audit Vault Server data, corresponding to three data types:

• EVENTDATA

• SYSTEMDATA

• RECOVERY

If desired, you can add disks from a registered SAN server to the EVENTDATA, SYSTEMDATA, and RECOVERY disk groups to increase the storage capacity for those types of data. Else, these data types are stored in disk partitions on the Audit Vault Server.

Adding SAN disks to these disk groups is optional.

In a high availability environment, you must ensure that the secondary server has at least the same amount of space in each disk group as the primary server.

The Repository sub in a High Availability Environment

In a high availability environment, you see the disk groups in the Repository page for the Primary Oracle Audit Vault Server, followed by the same disk groups for the Secondary Oracle Audit Vault Server. You must ensure that the secondary server has at least the same amount of space in each disk group as the primary server.

Related Topics

• About Configuring a SAN Repository

Adding SAN Disks to the Audit Vault Server Repository

To add storage area network (SAN) disks to the Oracle Audit Vault Server repository, use this procedure.

You can add SAN disks that are not already in use to any of the disk groups in the repository.

Note: Adding an additional disk creates two VG_ROOT volume groups. When you have two VG_ROOT disks, this results in failure during upgrade. Ensure that any disk added to the appliance has no pre-existing LVM or other device mapper metadata.

To add disks to a disk group in the repository:

1. Log in to the Audit Vault Server as a super administrator.

2. Select Settings, and then select Storage in the left navigation menu.

3. Select Repository sub on the main page.

4. Select Add Disk against the specific disk group.

   Details for available disks are displayed, including disk capacity and free space.

5. Select the disks that you want to add to this disk group, and then select Use Disk(s) .

6. Select OK to confirm.

   The selected disks are displayed under the specified disk group.

Dropping SAN Disks from the Audit Vault Server Repository

Learn how to drop a SAN disk from a disk group.

The data on the disk being dropped is relocated to the remaining disks in the disk group. Before dropping a disk, the system checks for space on the remaining disks in the disk group for data to be relocated. If this space check fails, it results in OAV-47330 error. You cannot drop the only disk in the disk group.

To drop a SAN disk from a disk group in the repository:

1. Log in to the Oracle Database Security Central console as a super administrator.

2. Select Settings, and then select Storage in the left navigation menu.

3. Find the disk you want to drop under one of the disk groups, select the disk, and then select Drop Disk .

4. Select OK to confirm.