10.1 Enabling Audit Logging

Messages are automatically logged to the server log file for all Oracle GoldenGate actions, such as start and stop as well as for file access, such as parameter, report, and discard.

This topic discusses how to enable these logs for auditing. To enable or disable an audit for a specific action, run the following commands from the oms/bin directory. Enter the values you want to use for each setting:

emcli update_audit_settings
  -audit_switch="ENABLE|DISABLE"
  -operations_to_enable="name_of_operations_to_enable"
  -operations_to_disable="name_of_operations_to_disable"
  -externalization_switch="ENABLE|DISABLE"
  -directory="directory_name"
  -file_prefix="file_prefix"
  -file_size="file_size"
  -data_retention_period="data_retention_period"

You can enable or disable one or more operations using the -operations_to_enable flag. Here is a list of the Oracle GoldenGate operations and the values to use.

Operation	Value
Start Oracle GoldenGate process	OGG_START_TARGET
Stop Oracle GoldenGate process	OGG_STOP_TARGET
Kill Oracle GoldenGate process	OGG_KILL_TARGET
View report file	OGG_VIEW_REPORT
View discard file	OGG_VIEW_DISCARD
View ggserr.log contents	OGG_VIEW_GGSERRLOG
Edit parameter file	OGG_EDIT_PARAM

Operations can be combined and separated by a semicolon (;). The following is the command to enable all audit logging for the Enterprise Manager Plug-In for Oracle GoldenGate.

emcli update_audit_settings -operations_to_enable="OGG_START_TARGET;OGG_STOP_TARGET;OGG_KILL_TARGET;OGG_VIEW_REPORT;OGG_VIEW_DISCARD;OGG_VIEW_GGSERRLOG;OGG_EDIT_PARAM"