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Auditing LOGOFF and LOGON Through DATABASE TRIGGER in Oracle 8i

 

Oracle Techniques                                                                   By Sameer Wadhwa

 

 

Here is a way to create a logon trigger for audition logoff /logon of database users.

connect with sys or system and proceed with the following steps

Step 1:-


Create a table log_info as

create table SYSTEM.log_info( logindatetime date,LogoffDateTime Date,LoggedUser Varchar2(30),SESSIONID
Number );

Step 2:-

CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER logon_audit AFTER LOGON ON DATABASE
BEGIN
insert into system.log_info values(sysdate,null,user,sys_context('USERENV','SESSIONID') );
END;
/

CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER logoff_audit Before LOGOFF ON DATABASE
BEGIN
insert into system.log_info values(Null,sysdate,user,sys_context('USERENV','SESSIONID') );
END;
/

This will create trigger name logon_audit,logoff_audit in the database

Step 3:


Shutdown normal and startup the database.


All set now , whenever any user logged in to the database , the login time and logoff time is recorded
in the system.log_info table.

Now you can write down a simple sql , to know how many time particular user logged , at what time he/she
logged, How long user was connected with the database etc.

I made a t1.sql for you .


t1.sql


select to_char(logindatetime,'DD-MON hh:mi') logon,
to_char(logoffdatetime,'DD-MON hh:mi') logoff,loggeduser,sessionid from system.log_info
where sessionid != 0
/
SVRMGR> @t1
LOGON        LOGOFF       LOGGEDUSER                        SESSIONID
------------ ------------ ------------------------------    ----------
30-AUG 03:49              SCOTT                               16209
30-AUG 03:49              SCOTT                               16210
30-AUG 03:51              SCOTT                               16211
            30-AUG 03:51  SCOTT                               16210
            30-AUG 03:51  SCOTT                               16209


The sessionid will tell you when a particular user has logged in and logged out.

 

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 Sameer Wadhwa

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