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Unified Auditing in Oracle ASM 26ai

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  In Oracle AI Database 26ai, Oracle has introduced three new initialization parameters specifically for controlling unified auditing in Automatic Storage Management (ASM) instances. These parameters provide control over what ASM operations are audited and where the audit records are sent. The three parameters are: • ASM_UNIFIED_AUDIT_DESTINATION — controls the destination of ASM audit records. • ASM_UNIFIED_AUDIT_LEVEL — controls the level of ASM auditing. • UNIFIED_AUDIT_SYSTEMLOG — defines the SYSLOG facility and severity used for ASM audit records. We can verify these parameters in an ASM instance with: SQL> SHOW PARAMETER unified NAME TYPE VALUE --- asm_unified_audit_destination string SYSTEMLOG asm_unified_audit_level string BASIC unified_audit_systemlog string LOCAL0.INFO In this article, I will demonstrate how these parameters work in Oracle ASM 26ai and show how ASM audit r...