Preparing To Monitor the Oracle Database

This section describes the steps involved in setting up auditing within an Oracle database. If you are going to monitor an Oracle database with any of the Oracle entity types, you will need to perform these steps before events will be captured.

Before configuring auditing it is suggested you review the Auditing Database Use section of the Oracle Database Administrator's Guide. This document provides an overview of Oracle's auditing functionality, as well as basic concepts and guidelines for auditing configurations. Note that this document does not cover all details of configuring and fine tuning the Oracle audit system. Instead, this document serves as an example of the basic steps involved to configure the Oracle audit system to enable Real-time monitoring through Real-time monitoring rules.