IOUG Collaborate 2014 Auditing/Security in EM12c

Enterprise Manager 12c and
Keys to the Castle
Kellyn Pot’Vin
Consulting Member of Technical Team
Strategic Customer Program

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The Importance of Securing The EM12c
Environment
 IT environments are now more complex and dynamic.
 Financial implications and loss of goodwill coupled with stringent
regulatory requirements.
 Challenges due to introduction of distributed system management
applications.
What best practices are in place for system management products?

Focus on Security Groups, Roles and Auditing
 Creating significant roles and then grant roles to users instead of
granting privileges.
 Take advantage of privilege propagation groups and systems to deter
from resource demands
 Treat the Repository as you would any other database. Use common
sense and standard security best practices.
 Enable auditing to retain information about actions in the repository
and export to an external directory to retain limited information.
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Do You Know Who Has the Power of the Force?
SELECT grantee FROM MGMT_PRIV_GRANTS
WHERE PRIV_NAME = ‘SUPER_USER’ ;
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Entitlement Summary Info
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Entitlement Summary
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Entitlement Breakdown
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• Also can include…
• Contact info
• Location and Department
• Lifecycle and chargeback info
• Note if user is super admin or not.

Roles Assigned, Part II of Entitlement Summary
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• Each Role is displayed
• Total Roles granted displayed to far right
• Each Role is a link to detail info on role

Role Details
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Roles and Privileges to Roles… :)
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Entitlement Summary, Part III
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• Assign individual targets
• View any target, (different from accessing any)
• Assign distinct privileges to any target

Auditing
 Allows you to track and validate actions performed in EM12c,
 By default, basic and infrastructure auditing is enabled.
 Over 150 auditing options are available in Enterprise Manager.
 Encompasses updates, downloads, OMS password changes and EM
key copy and removals from the repository.
 An enhanced page makes viewing data easy. Page can be accessed
via Setup Security  Audit Data
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EM CLI Auditing Commands
 List of commands
 Show auditing status info
 Enable Auditing Settings
 Update Auditing Settings
 How to externalize auditing data
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Inspecting Rights Internal
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View Audit Settings
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Enabling Audit Options
 To enable audit for a subset of audited operations, please use the
following EM CLI verb:
>emcli update_audit_settings -
audit_switch="ENABLE/DISABLE" -
operations_to_enable="<insert operation name here or
just say ALL>" -
operations_to_disable="<insert operation name here or
just say ALL>"
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Updating Audit Settings
 External file systems can be updated from the repository on a regular
basis to externalize the service.
 Tip- Ensure there is enough disk space for this operation, as log files
can consume significant space.
file_prefix=<file_prefix> -
directory_name=<directory_name> -file_size = <file
size> -data_retention_period=<period
in days>
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Example of audit data to external directory
 We’ll retain the data in the Repository for 31 days
 Data will be exported to the external directory, (dba_directories)
 Each of the audit files will be prefixed with “em12c_audit”
 Files will be max size of 25M each
externalization_switch=ENABLE -
file_prefix=em12c_audit -
directory=AUD_DMP -file_size=25000000 -
data_retention_period=31
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Best Practices for Auditing
 Plan carefully to ensure that you capture the data that you require to
audit effectively.
 Use and External audit service and secure the files created to retain
audit data outside the repository in case of significant loss.
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