Configuring and Enabling Oracle Database Vault

2 Configuring and Enabling Oracle Database Vault

To get started with Oracle Database Vault, you must configure it, enable it, and then restart the Oracle database. In an Oracle multitenant environment, you complete this on the container database (CDB) and then each of the pluggable databases (PDB).

Oracle recommends creating four accounts to manage key roles within Oracle Database Vault. Two are primary accounts and two are backup accounts. Store the passwords for these accounts in a safe place so that you do not lose or forget them. The accounts with the DV_OWNER role, specifically, become your most critical accounts to never lock and never lose the passwords to. To minimize the risk of locking the accounts, Oracle recommends creating specific database profiles to assign to these four accounts.

2.1 Configuring Database Vault on the Container Database

Perform the following steps to configure Database Vault on the container database.

Connect as a database user that can create accounts and grant privileges in both the container root and pluggable database:
```
connect / as sysdba
```

Grant the following privileges:

GRANT CREATE SESSION, SET CONTAINER TO c##dvowner 
    IDENTIFIED BY <password> CONTAINER = ALL;
GRANT CREATE SESSION, SET CONTAINER TO c##dvowner_backup 
    IDENTIFIED BY <password> CONTAINER = ALL;
GRANT CREATE SESSION, SET CONTAINER TO c##dvacctmgr 
    IDENTIFIED BY <password> CONTAINER = ALL;
GRANT CREATE SESSION, SET CONTAINER TO c##dvacctmgr_backup
    IDENTIFIED BY <password> CONTAINER = ALL;

Oracle recommends creating a profile that will not permanently lock the accounts you created for Oracle Database Vault. You can adjust these to meet your requirements, but Oracle recommends using the PASSWORD_LOCK_TIME profile parameter to an acceptable length to allow the account to be unlocked after a reasonable time has passed. In this example, the following parameter is set to one minute:
```
CREATE PROFILE C##DV_PROFILE LIMIT
    FAILED_LOGIN_ATTEMPTS 5
    PASSWORD_VERIFY_FUNCTION ora12c_verify_function
    PASSWORD_LOCK_TIME 1/1440
    CONTAINER=ALL;
```

Assign the profile to the Oracle Database Vault accounts you created:

ALTER USER c##dvowner PROFILE c##dv_profile CONTAINER=ALL;
ALTER USER c##dvowner_backup PROFILE c##dv_profile CONTAINER=ALL;
ALTER USER c##dvacctmgr PROFILE c##dv_profile CONTAINER=ALL;
ALTER USER c##dvacctmgr_backup PROFILE c##dv_profile CONTAINER=ALL;

Perform the configuration on the container database:

connect / as sysdba

BEGIN
    CONFIGURE_DV (
        dvowner_uname         => 'c##dvowner',
        dvacctmgr_uname       => 'c##dvacctmgr',
        force_local_dvowner   => FALSE);
END;
/

Recompile invalid objects. This step is not required but it's recommended to keep invalid objects to a minimum.
```
@$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/utlrp.sql
```
As C##DVOWNER, enable Oracle Database Vault:
```
CONNECT c##dvowner
EXEC DBMS_MACADM.ENABLE_DV;
```
Restart the Oracle database. If you are in an Oracle Real Application Cluster, you can minimize the downtime by using Oracle Real Application Clusters to perform a rolling enablement, but in a single instance environment you must take the downtime.
```
CONNECT / as sysoper
shutdown immediate;
startup;
```
From the container database, verify Oracle Database Vault is configured and enabled in the CDB root:
```
connect / as sysdba

SELECT * FROM DBA_DV_STATUS;
```
Both DV_CONFIGURE_STATUS and DV_ENABLE_STATUS should show TRUE and APP_PROTECTION will show NOT CONFIGURED because you have not enabled Oracle Database Vault operations control.
For example:
```
NAME               STATUS
------------------- --------------
DV_CONFIGURE_STATUS           TRUE
DV_ENABLE_STATUS              TRUE
DV_APP_PROTECTION   NOT CONFIGURED
```
Grant the backup accounts the appropriate Database Vault roles.
For example, the user who is the backup for Oracle Database Vault Owner has the DV_OWNER role:
```
CONNECT c##dvowner
GRANT DV_OWNER TO c##dvowner_backup WITH ADMIN OPTION CONTAINER=ALL;
```
Grant the backup accounts the appropriate Database Vault roles.
For example, the user who is the backup for Oracle Database Vault Account Manager has the DV_ACCTMGR role:
```
CONNECT c##dvacctmgr
GRANT DV_ACCTMGR TO c##dvacctmgr_backup WITH ADMIN OPTION CONTAINER=ALL;
```

To verify the Database Vault related users have the appropriate roles, query the role privileges view as a user who has the DBA role:

connect / as sysdba

column grantee format a25
column granted_role format a25
select grantee, granted_role, admin_option, common 
    from dba_role_privs
where granted_role in ('DV_ACCTMGR','DV_OWNER')
order by 1,2,3;

The output should look like the following:

GRANTEE                GRANTED_ROLE    ADMIN_OPTION    COMMON
______________________ _______________ _______________ _________
C##DVACCTMGR           DV_ACCTMGR      YES             YES
C##DVACCTMGR_BACKUP    DV_ACCTMGR      YES             YES
C##DVOWNER             DV_OWNER        YES             YES
C##DVOWNER_BACKUP      DV_OWNER        YES             YES

2.2 Configuring Database Vault on a Pluggable Database

Perform the following steps to configure Database Vault on a pluggable database. You can enable Database Vault on zero or more pluggable databases.

The following configuration will use common database users and grant them the DV_OWNER and DV_ACCTMGR roles, respectively. This is a common configuration however, not the only configuration. You may create, and use, database users local to the pluggable database instead of common users. For more information on the different configuration options, see the Oracle AI Database Vault Administrator’s Guide.

On the pluggable database, as a user with the SYSDBA administrative privilege, perform the configuration:

alter session set container=pdb_name;

BEGIN
    CONFIGURE_DV (
        dvowner_uname         => 'c##dvowner',
        dvacctmgr_uname       => 'c##dvacctmgr');
END;
/

Recompile invalid objects. This step is not required but it's recommended to keep invalid objects to a minimum.
```
$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin/utlrp.sql
```
Next, as C##DVOWNER, enable Oracle Database Vault in the pluggable database:
```
CONNECT c##dvowner@pdb_name

EXEC DBMS_MACADM.ENABLE_DV;
```
As a user with the SYSOPER role, restart the Oracle pluggable database. If you are in an Oracle Real Application Cluster, you can minimize the downtime by performing rolling enablement, but in a single instance environment you must take the downtime.
```
connect / as sysoper

ALTER PLUGGABLE DATABASE pdb_name CLOSE IMMEDIATE;
ALTER PLUGGABLE DATABASE pdb_name OPEN;
```

If you wish to check the status of Oracle Database Vault in all container and pluggable databases, you can run the following command from the container database. Now, Database Vault should be enabled on the container and pluggable databases.

connect / as sysdba

SELECT * FROM CDB_DV_STATUS;

The output should look like the following. Notice the red highlighted rows, demonstrating both the container and pluggable database have Oracle Database Vault enabled:

NAME                            STATUS               CON_ID
______________________          _________________    _________
DV_CONFIGURE_STATUS             TRUE                 1
DV_ENABLE_STATUS                TRUE                 1
DV_APP_PROTECTION               NOT CONFIGURED       1
DV_CONFIGURE_STATUS             TRUE                 3
DV_ENABLE_STATUS                TRUE                 3
DV_APP_PROTECTION               NOT CONFIGURED       3

Alternatively, if you want to see the container name instead of the container ID, run the following query:

SELECT CON_ID_TO_CON_NAME(CON_ID) CON_NAME, NAME, STATUS FROM CDB_DV_STATUS;

The output should look like the following:

NAME                            STATUS                 CON_ID
______________________          _________________      _________
CDB$ROOT                        DV_CONFIGURE_STATUS    TRUE
CDB$ROOT                        DV_ENABLE_STATUS       TRUE
CDB$ROOT                        DV_APP_PROTECTION      NOT CONFIGURED
pdb_name                        DV_CONFIGURE_STATUS    TRUE
pdb_name                        DV_ENABLE_STATUS       TRUE
pdb_name                        DV_APP_PROTECTION      NOT CONFIGURED

For more information on the CON_ID_TO_CON_NAME function, review the Oracle AI Database SQL Language Reference