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Process Overview

Background

Database audit supports auditing user-installed databases on ECS/BMS as well as RDS databases on Huawei Cloud.

Auditing Databases Without Agents

Databases of some types and versions can be audited without using agents, as shown in Table 1.

Table 1 Agent-free relational databases

Database Type

Supported Edition

GaussDB(for MySQL)

All editions are supported by default.

RDS for SQLServer

(Supported by CTS 23.02.27.182148 and later versions)

All editions are supported by default.

RDS for MySQL
  • 5.6 (5.6.51.1 or later)
  • 5.7 (5.7.29.2 or later)
  • 8.0 (8.0.20.3 or later)

GaussDB(DWS)
  • 8.2.0.100 or later

PostGresql

(Supported by CTS 23.04.17.123301 and later versions)
  • 14 (14.4 or later)
  • 13 (13.6 or later)
  • 12 (12.10 or later)
  • 11 (11.15 or later)
  • 9.6 (9.6.24 or later)
  • 9.5 (9.5.25 or later)
Figure 1 Agent-free auditing process
Table 2 Procedure for quickly configuring database audit

Step

Configuration

Description

1

Adding a Database

Purchase database audit. Add a database to the database audit instance and enable audit for the database.

Apply for database audit. Add a database to the database audit instance and enable audit for the database.

2

Enabling Database Audit

Enable database audit and connect the added database to the database audit instance.

3

Viewing the Audit Results

By default, database audit complies with a full audit rule, which is used to audit all databases that are connected to the database audit instance. You can view the audit result on the database audit page.

NOTICE:

You can set database audit rules as required. For details, see Adding Audit Scope.