Oracle Audit Vault And Database Firewall (AVDF) 20.9 installation (part1-AV)

Today we are planning to setup an environment for auditing databases and monitors network-based activities with Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall (AVDF) 20.9 version.

basic requirements includes. 220G size of disk, one physical IP, Bootable pen drive with AVDF software which can be easily downloadable from edelivery oracle site.

lets start installing first Audit Vault and later we will install Database Firewall. Boot your system with bootable pendrive ( the whole process can take 3-4 hours based on the setup performance)

End result will be (a) Javafwk-application (b) Oracle Restart-HAS-ASM (c) 19.18 Database

After this step AVDF will ask for password for OS ROOT user

After setting of root user avdf server will restart and will boot from Disk , remember , this process will eject your disk-pendrive before restarting.

If pendrive is still attached, remove it and reinsert. AVDF will auto detect and resume

Above setup will demands nic card , if not connected avdf will not allow proceed further.

NOTE: If by any issue , you got the below 2 screens, you can view the logs from /var/log/messages and you need to re start the complete process start from beginning,

Else.

TO stop the avdf server follow the below steps and for starting up follow rever steps

1. /usr/local/dbfw/bin/javafwk stop
2. /usr/local/dbfw/bin/dbfwdb stop
3. /usr/local/dbfw/bin/asmdb stop
4. Stop the Listener. lsnrctl stop

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