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Auditing all objects withing a schema with a wildcard '*'

Posted on Nov 25, 2014 at 02:06 PM 92 Views

Hi.

According to CREATE AUDIT POLICY - SAP HANA SQL and System Views Reference - SAP Library, for the HANA platform it's possible to audit all objects within a schema by using <schema_name>.* when creating the audit policy.

For an example, I have a schema called SCHEMA and a table called MY_TABLE in it:

When I to audit a single object, like a table,it works well:

CREATE AUDIT POLICY all_my_table AUDITING ALL DELETE, INSERT, SELECT, UPDATE ON SCHEMA.MY_TABLE LEVEL CRITICAL;

But when I try to add the audit policy I get a syntax error:

CREATE AUDIT POLICY all_objs_in_schema AUDITING ALL DELETE, INSERT, SELECT, UPDATE ON SCHEMA.* LEVEL CRITICAL;

Has anyone encountered something like that?

Thanks!

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    Vivek Singh Bhoj
    Posted on Dec 01, 2014 at 10:25 AM
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    Hi Ariel,

    This feature is available in SPS09.

    Check the page no. 27 of below document:

    https://hcp.sap.com/content/dam/website/saphana/en_us/Technology%20Documents/SPS09/SAP%20HANA%20SPS%2009%20-%20Security.…

    Its written: "You can now specify a schema if you want to audit all database objects belonging to the schema"


    Regards,

    Vivek

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    Vivek Singh Bhoj
    Posted on Nov 26, 2014 at 04:32 AM
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    Hi Ariel,

    I also tried this and it throws an error.

    I checked creating Audit Policy via Graphical Method and there I could not Select Schema to be audited. I have to individually select the objects to be audited.

    Then I opened the PDF version of the guide and found that below statement is not present there:

    "for the HANA platform it's possible to audit all objects within a schema by using <schema_name>.* when creating the audit policy." Open page 319-

    http://help.sap.com/hana/SAP_HANA_SQL_and_System_Views_Reference_en.pdf

    In the HTML Guide, <audit_object_name> ::= <table_name> | <view_name> | <procedure_name> | <schema_name>.*

    while in PDF Guide <object_name> ::= <table_name> | <view_name> | <procedure_name>

    As "Only objects of type table, view, and procedure can be specified in the <target_audit_action_entry>". Selecting * means selecting all Objects, So I guess this functionality is not supported yet and it is written incorrectly in the Guide in HTML Version.

    It will be better to contact SAP for this.

    Regards,

    Vivek

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    Posted on Dec 09, 2014 at 02:59 PM
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    I can confirm this does indeed work as expected on SPS9.

    Thanks again Vivek.

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