About Registering Hosts and Deploying the Agent
Learn how to register hosts and deploying the Audit Vault Agent.
Register a host computer from where audit data is collected. After registering the host, you can deploy the Audit Vault Agent on that host. The Audit Vault Agent is a component of Oracle Database Security Central (Oracle DBSecCentral) that you can download from the Oracle Database Security Central console. After being deployed, Audit Vault Agents are ready to collect data from targets. A target is a system that you want to monitor and protect.
| Step | Task | Reference Topic |
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| 1 | Check the requirements. | Audit Vault Agent Requirements |
| 2 | Check the documentation about deploying the Audit Vault Agent. | Deploying the Audit Vault Agent on Host Computers |
| 3 | Register the host machine (agent machine). | Registering Hosts on the Audit Vault Server |
| 4 | Download the Audit Vault Agent software from the Oracle Database Security Central console and deploy the agent. | Deploying the Audit Vault Agent |
| 5 | Activate and start the Audit Vault Agent. | Activating and Starting the Audit Vault Agent |
| 6 | In case of any error or issue, refer to the troubleshooting documentation and known issues. |
After registering the hosts on the Audit Vault Server, perform the following steps to be able to collect audit records:
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Download the Audit Vault Agent software from the Oracle Database Security Central console.
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Deploy the Audit Vault Agent.
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Activate the Audit Vault Agent.
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Register one or more targets from which you want to collect audit data.
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Start collecting data from the targets’ audit trails by using the Oracle Database Security Central console.
See Also:
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Summary of Configuration Steps to understand the high-level workflow for configuring the Oracle Database Security Central system