Oracle Audit Vault Scalability

HF
COMSATS'13 DBA Consultant at a engineering company with 10,001+ employees

The solution is scalable.

The sole requirement is to have the minimum capability. Occasionally, we have observed a significant increase in the collected data from the specified targets, leading to an involved audit. Currently, our focus lies on the configuration of the agentless configuration engine. Consequently, I have been contemplating the impact of increasing the number of target collections, possibly surpassing fifty or seventy. What effect would this have on the speed of data collection? One limitation I have noticed is in complex environments where a multitude of databases are available for potential data collection. The agentless configuration has a maximum limitation of twenty targets. It cannot exceed this number. Therefore, a combination of agentless and agent-based collection will be employed. Our primary concern remains the speed of data collection.

My clients are typically medium-sized companies.

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BA
Pre-sales Converter at a marketing services firm with 11-50 employees

The scalability depends on different databases and clients. 

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OM
Cloud Expert | DevOps | Oracle Consultant at confidential

It's nice product when it's comes to scalability, 

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Amey Darekar - PeerSpot reviewer
Personal Banker at HDFC Bank

It's a scalable solution. 

Depending on the instances that we have, we have approximately 1,000 users.

We have plans to continue using Oracle. If they have a better version, we will move towards that.

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Yves Moro - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle Database Administrator at SOCITECH S.A.

I have never scaled it, but I have heard that it is possible.

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SK
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

This product has scalability issues, which we resolved after working with a Audit Vault core designer. Some of the major issues are:

  • This product runs a dynamic partition creation DDL on core warehouse tables at runtime, which is not recommended. The problem escalates when you introduce RAC as a warehouse database. This feature simply kills the warehouse RAC database from a performance point of view.
  • The Audit Vault collector process on warehouse databases is designed to consume more memory to speed up processing and avoid a CPU spike. This holds good when collectors are limited, but when your target base grows, this kills the database server and results in frequent database restarts due to full memory capacity.
  • The collector process on target servers is not able to identify abrupt Audit Vault server reboots and freezes. To resolve the same, you need to restart all collectors, one-by-one, manually.
  • While adding a new target, if you have old Audit Vault files (say one or two years old) and if the agent captures that file, then the internal Audit Vault mechanism starts day-wise partition creation. That results in shared pool locks and it gets worse in the case of RAC. The workaround is to clean up all existing audit files and then reinstall the agent.
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AM
Information Technology and Services Professional at Independent

The product is highly scalable. You can grow it by adding on multiple nodes and those nodes would definitely be able to be monitored in a server upon which you deploy an application. So there is really not any limitation on scalability. You can just add on or reduce other services within the environment. The fewer servers, the more efficient the logging. More servers may create problems for users coming through.

The Audit Vault server is isolated from the production server environment configuration, so ideally there's not any interference in terms of scalability. You could grow on demand. 

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it_user427872 - PeerSpot reviewer
Sr. Lead Consultant - Database at a tech company with 501-1,000 employees

I did not encounter any scalability issues either.

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it_user616053 - PeerSpot reviewer
Database Management Manager at a financial services firm

In the Auditor role of about 5 people, this can be scaled for our company as there is no performance problem in getting the report at the same time, but there may be a performance problem depending on the increase in the number of users in the future. This is somewhat in direct proportion to the number of users.

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MK
Lead Network and Security at cb.gov.qa

We do not have heavy requirements in terms of scalability on our end, so I am unsure.

We currently have between ten and twelve users. These people are middle management, our database administrator, and I am the Data Center Lead.

This solution is extensively used on a daily basis, as it is one of the pillars of our overall monitoring solution. We have no plans to increase usage at this time.

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MM
Director (Core Technology Services) and Partner at Nexim Solutions

It's very scalable. It can do real application, remote sites, and DR, so it's quite scalable. I think it's very easy to scale from that test; I think they've done well.

We've got at least 60 users, including IT demonstrators, auditors, and the risk department, so it's widely used.

It's currently used extensively at the bank because they have to measure their compliance in real time and they cannot do that without this solution. There were plans to integrate the solution with the ERT to start looking at certain components within ERT, as well as opportunities for them to expand it to be used on their distributions. I'm not too sure how far they have gone because we just deployed and left. We've not been back to these clients for this product so far.

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it_user624783 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager-Oracle Specialist at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

There were no scalability issues.

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it_user489099 - PeerSpot reviewer
DB Admin with 5,001-10,000 employees

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

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MM
Director (Core Technology Services) and Partner at Nexim Solutions

It is rather difficult to scale, but it works perfectly.

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NG
IT Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Since the appliance runs on the enterprise Oracle database, scalability is not an issue unless limited by licensing.

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it_user592350 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle DBA at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Any upgrade or patch required a complete reinstall. This was inconvenient.

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AC
Solution Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I would say that the scalability of this solution is medium.

The users include the database team, which has fifteen people, and in some areas of the business, there are in excess of fifty.

We are not currently planning to expand the use of this product.

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it_user595740 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle Technical Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Security controls can be customized with in-line monitoring and blocking on some databases and monitoring only on other databases. The Database Firewall can be deployed in-line, out-of-band, or in proxy mode to work with the available network configurations.

For monitoring remote servers, the Audit Vault Agent on the database server can forward the network traffic to the Database Firewall. Delivered as a soft appliance, a single Audit Vault Server can consolidate audit logs and firewall events from thousands of databases.

Both Audit Vault Server and the Database Firewall can be configured in a HA mode for fault tolerance.

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it_user613578 - PeerSpot reviewer
Oracle Database Consultant, SME Database at a non-tech company with 501-1,000 employees

I haven’t tried the scalability option.

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it_user562536 - PeerSpot reviewer
Database & Flexcube System Administrator at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

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it_user621024 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant Analyst DBA at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

There were no scalability issues.

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it_user592347 - PeerSpot reviewer
Database & Middleware at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

We have not had any issues with scalability.

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it_user560259 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Solutions Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I have not encountered any scalability issues.

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