2.7 Monitoring and Auditing of Oracle Exadata Database Machine

Whether for compliance reporting or incident response, monitoring and auditing are critical functions that organizations must use to gain increased visibility into their IT environment.

The degree to which monitoring and auditing is employed is often based upon the risk or criticality of the environment. Oracle Exadata has been designed to offer comprehensive monitoring and auditing functionality at the server, network, database, and storage layers ensuring that information can be made available to organizations in support of their audit and compliance requirements.

• Monitoring and Auditing of Oracle Exadata Database Machine
  AIDE is a security feature that reports any malicious or unplanned change to the system.
• Monitoring and Auditing Oracle Database Activity
  Oracle Database support of fine-grained auditing allows organizations to establish policies that selectively determine when audit records are generated.
• Operating System Activity Monitoring on Oracle Exadata Servers
  Each Exadata server is configured with auditd to audit system-level activity.