How to Enable/Disable Unified Audit

Hello everyone, I want to explain how to enable/disable unified audit option on Oracle Databases. When you enable or disable unified audit option, all databases must be closed while operation time.

You can check the unified audit that open or closed status with the below code

SQL> SELECT VALUE FROM V$OPTION WHERE PARAMETER = 'Unified Auditing';

VALUE
-------
NO

You can open a unified audit option with the below code.

$ cd $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/lib
$ make -f ins_rdbms.mk uniaud_on ioracle

When operation completed, you can check to unified audit status.

SQL> SELECT VALUE FROM V$OPTION WHERE PARAMETER = 'Unified Auditing';
VALUE
-------
YES

Also, you can purge to logs on the databases with the below code.

BEGIN 
DBMS_AUDIT_MGMT.CLEAN_AUDIT_TRAIL(
audit_trail_type =>  DBMS_AUDIT_MGMT.AUDIT_TRAIL_UNIFIED,
use_last_arch_timestamp =>  FALSE);
END;
/

You can purge to logs on the OS with the below code.

EXEC DBMS_AUDIT_MGMT.DROP_PURGE_JOB('CLEANUP_OS_DB_AUDIT_RECORDS'); 


BEGIN
DBMS_AUDIT_MGMT.DEINIT_CLEANUP(
AUDIT_TRAIL_TYPE   => DBMS_AUDIT_MGMT.AUDIT_TRAIL_ALL);
END;
/

Lastly, you can disable to unified audit with the below code.

$ cd $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/lib
$ make -f ins_rdbms.mk uniaud_off ioracle 

and check

SQL> SELECT VALUE FROM V$OPTION WHERE PARAMETER = 'Unified Auditing';

VALUE
-------
NO

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