Overview of Oracle Database Security Central

Learn about Oracle Database Security Central components, and what each component does.

Oracle Database Security Central (Oracle DBSecCentral) supports native database audit data collection and network-based SQL monitoring to deliver a comprehensive Database Activity Monitoring solution. It is comprised of these components:

Audit Vault Server: A server that contains an embedded Oracle Database and other software components that manage the activities of Oracle Database Security Central.
Audit Vault Agent: A Java component that runs on a remote host and manages the collection of audit information based on commands from the Audit Vault server. The agent interfaces with the collection plug-ins under its control to gather audit records and sends it to the Audit Vault Server.
Database Firewall: The Database Firewall is a dedicated server that runs the Database Firewall software. Each Database Firewall monitors SQL traffic on the network from database clients to target databases. The Database Firewall then sends the SQL data to the Audit Vault Server to be analyzed in reports.

Oracle Database Security Central ships with several prepackaged collection plug-ins, which are software programs that know how to access and interpret audit data from target systems of various types. Collection plug-ins collect audit data from an audit trail generated by a target system and store it in an Audit Vault Server repository. Each collection plug-in is specific to a particular type of trail from a particular type of target. These collection plug-ins collect data from databases such as Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase ASE, and DB2.