Verify That Audit Vault Agents and Host Monitor Agents Were Automatically Updated

The Audit Vault Agents and Host Monitor Agents are automatically updated when you update the Audit Vault Server. However, some situations require manual updates.

Note: During the Audit Vault Agent automatic update process, its status is UNREACHABLE. It may take as long as 45 minutes to return to the RUNNING state.

In the following situations you may need to update the Audit Vault Agents manually:

• On Windows hosts, the Audit Vault Agent is updated automatically only if you’ve registered it as a Windows service and you’ve set this service to use the credentials of the OS user that originally installed the agent. See Additional Requirements for Starting Audit Vault Agent as a Service on Windows for more information.

  When you start the agent from the command line, the Audit Vault Agent does not automatically update. In this case, update the agent manually. For example:

  <agent_home>\bin\agentctl.bat stop

  Download the new agent.jar from the Oracle Database Security Central console and extract it using java -jar agent.jar from the agent_home of the existing agent. Then run the following command:

  <agent_home>\bin\agentctl.bat start

  Don’t delete the existing agent_home directory.

• When configuring the Audit Vault Server for high availability, if the designated standby Audit Vault Server’s agents were deployed before pairing, then manually download and deploy the agents again after pairing.