Viewing Audit Reports

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. After connecting the database to the database audit instance, generate an audit report and preview online or download it.

Prerequisites

You have purchased a database audit instance and the Status is Running.
Database audit has been enabled.

A security group rule has been configured for the database audit instance.

Report Types

Database audit provides eight types of report templates. Table 1 lists the report names. You can generate reports and set report tasks as needed.

**Table 1** Description
Template Name	Report Type	Description
Database Security General Report	Overview report	Provides the overall audit status of the database, including risks, sessions, and login status to better manage databases.
Database Security Compliance Report	Compliance report	This report helps database administrators and auditors detect abnormal behaviors, locate problems, and manage information.
SOX Report	Compliance report	Complies with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) to provide statics on and evaluate database operations. This report helps database administrators and auditors detect abnormal behaviors, locate problems, and manage information.
Database Server Analysis Report	Database report	Provides statistics and analysis on active users, user IP addresses, database logins and requests, database usage duration, and database performance.
Client IP Address Analysis Report	Client report	Provides statistics on client applications, database users, and SQL statements collected from user IP addresses.
DML Command Report	Database operation report	Analyzes user and privileged operations based on DML commands.
DDL Command Report	Database operation report	Analyzes user and privileged operations based on DDL commands.
DCL Command Report	Database operation report	Analyzes user and privileged operations based on DCL commands.

Step 1: Generating a Report

You can generate reports immediately or periodically. You can also customize the generation time, frequency, and format of reports.

Method 1: Generating a Report Immediately

Log in to the management console.
Select a region, click , and choose Security & Compliance > Database Security Service. The Dashboard page is displayed.
Select a region, click , and choose Security > Database Security Service. The Dashboard page is displayed.
In the navigation tree on the left, choose Reports.
In the Instance drop-down list, select the instance whose instance report you want to generate.
Click the Report Management tab.
In the Operation column of a report template, click Generate Report.
In the displayed dialog box, click to set the start time and end time of the report, and select the database for which you want to generate a report.
Click OK.

Method 2: Setting Periodic Report Release

Log in to the management console.
Select a region, click , and choose Security & Compliance > Database Security Service. The Dashboard page is displayed.
In the navigation tree on the left, choose Reports.
In the Instance drop-down list, select the instance for which you want to set a report task.
Click the Report Management tab.
Locate the target template and click Schedule Task in the Operation column, as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1 Setting a task

In the displayed dialog box, set the parameters of the scheduled task, as shown in Figure 2. For details about related parameters, see Table 2.

Figure 2 Setting a scheduled task
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**Table 2** Parameters for setting a task
Parameter	Description	Example Value
Enable Task	Status of a scheduled task. : enabled : disabled
Message Notifications	Enables or disables notifications. Notifications are sent by Simple SMN and will probably incur a small fee. See SMN Pricing Details. : enabled : disabled
Report Type	Type of a report. The options are as follows: Daily Weekly Monthly	Weekly
Execution Mode	Execution mode of the report. The options are as follows: Once Periodically	Periodically
Time	Time when the report is executed	10:00
Database	Database for which you want to execute the report task	-

Click OK.

Step 2: Previewing and Downloading Audit Reports

Before previewing or downloading an audit report, ensure that its Status is 100%.

To preview a report online, use Google Chrome or Mozilla FireFox.

Log in to the management console.
Select a region, click , and choose Security & Compliance > Database Security Service. The Dashboard page is displayed.
In the navigation tree on the left, choose Reports.
In the Instance drop-down list, select the instance whose report you want to preview or download.
Locate the target template, and click Preview or Download in the Operation column to preview or download the report. See Figure 3..

Figure 3 Previewing or downloading an audit report