you are a new oracle dba and you want to know how you can identify if oracle advanced security option is installed.
advanced security option in 11g:
Oracle product development has decided that starting with Oracle 11g Oracle Advanced Security Option will be installed by default when installing Enterprise Edition . There is no way to uninstall or to install it. The reason behind this is that Oracle Advanced Security Options are integrated at network adapter level and it is not appropriate to tweak network adapters after database installation .
-/opt/oracle/product/11.2.0/rdbms/admin :->adapters
Installed Oracle Net transport protocols are:
IPC
BEQ
TCP/IP
SSL
RAW
Installed Oracle Net naming methods are:
Local Naming (tnsnames.ora)
Oracle Directory Naming
Oracle Host Naming
Error!!! Oracle Names Server Naming is not completely installed!
NIS Naming
Installed Oracle Advanced Security options are:
RC4 40-bit encryption
RC4 56-bit encryption
RC4 128-bit encryption
RC4 256-bit encryption
DES40 40-bit encryption
DES 56-bit encryption
3DES 112-bit encryption
3DES 168-bit encryption
AES 128-bit encryption
AES 192-bit encryption
AES 256-bit encryption
MD5 crypto-checksumming
SHA-1 crypto-checksumming
Kerberos v5 authentication
RADIUS authentication
in 10g you can check the v$option table but in 11g you can find the advanced security option in the v$option table as explained above.here is the proof from an 11g v$option table.
Checked again in the mydb01(new 11g installed db) and could see that “Advanced Security” is not present .
SQL> select * from v$option where upper(parameter) like ‘%ADV%’;
PARAMETER
—————————————————————-
VALUE
—————————————————————-
Advanced replication
TRUE
Advanced Compression
TRUE
Complete list of existing options
SQL> select * from v$option where upper(parameter) in (‘ACTIVE DATA GUARD’,
2 ‘ADVANCED ANALYTICS’,
‘ADVANCED COMPRESSION’,
3 4 ‘ADVANCED SECURITY’,
5 ‘AIRLINE DATA MODEL’,
6 ‘COMMUNICATIONS DATA MODEL’,
7 ‘DATABASE VAULT’,
8 ‘GOLDENGATE’,
9 ‘IN-MEMORY DATABASE CACHE’,
10 ‘LABEL SECURITY’,
‘MANAGEABILITY’,
11 12 ‘OLAP’,
‘PARTITIONING’,
13 14 ‘REAL APPLICATION CLUSTERS’,
15 ‘REAL APPLICATION CLUSTERS ONE NODE’,
16 ‘REAL APPLICATION TESTING’,
17 ‘RETAIL DATA MODEL’,
18 ‘SPATIAL’,
19 ‘TOTAL RECALL’ ) ;
PARAMETER VALUE
—————————————————————- —————————————————————-
Partitioning TRUE
Real Application Clusters FALSE
Spatial TRUE
OLAP TRUE
Real Application Testing TRUE
Active Data Guard TRUE
Advanced Compression TRUE
7 rows selected.
oracle advanced security and encrypting backups:
To create encrypted backups on disk with RMAN, the database must use the Advanced Security Option. The Oracle Secure Backup SBT is the only supported interface for making encrypted RMAN backups directly to tape. RMAN issues an ORA-19916 error if you attempt to create encrypted RMAN backups using an SBT library other than Oracle Secure Backup. The Advanced Security Option is not required when making encrypted backups using the Oracle Secure Backup SBT
