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IBM DB2 9.7 Advanced Administration Cookbook

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IBM DB2 9.7 Advanced Administration Cookbook

Overview of this book

IBM DB2 LUW is a leading relational database system developed by IBM. DB2 LUW database software offers industry leading performance, scale, and reliability on your choice of platform on various Linux distributions, leading Unix Systems like AIX, HP-UX and Solaris and MS Windows platforms. With lots of new features, DB2 9.7 delivers one the best relational database systems in the market. IBM DB2 9.7 Advanced Administration Cookbook covers all the latest features with instance creation, setup, and administration of multi-partitioned database. This practical cookbook provides step-by-step instructions to build and configure powerful databases, with scalability, safety and reliability features, using industry standard best practices. This book will walk you through all the important aspects of administration. You will learn to set up production capable environments with multi-partitioned databases and make the best use of hardware resources for maximum performance. With this guide you can master the different ways to implement strong databases with a High Availability architecture.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
IBM DB2 9.7 Advanced Administration Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Auditing DB2


No matter how strong our database security is, there is always a possibility of it being penetrated. In case of penetration attempts or other malicious intentions, early detection is crucial.

Therefore, we need to implement auditing to trace and overcome these types of events or other suspicious operations against the database. Auditing is also useful to detect and monitor operations performed in a certain period of time

Getting ready

In this recipe, we will cover how to configure the db2audit facility for different auditing scopes. Also we will cover how to implement audit policies using the AUDIT statement.

How to do it...

We will next introduce the main elements of the db2audit facility.

Configuring auditing scopes

An audit scope is a category of operations related to specific database objects, authorities, and privileges.

In the following table, we have summarized the audit scopes:

Scope

Description

AUDIT

This scope defines auditing of the audit facility. Records are generated...