Splunk® Supported Add-ons

Splunk Add-on for Oracle Database

Hardware and software requirements for the Splunk Add-on for Oracle Database

Splunk admin requirements

To install and configure the Splunk Add-on for Oracle Database, you must be member of the admin or sc_admin role.

Database user must have at least Connect permission to the database and Select permission to the respective table in order to collect the data via Splunk DB Connect:

  • For Connect permission: grant connect to {username}
  • For Select permission on respective table: grant select on {table_name} to {username}

Oracle Database setup requirements

  • You must have Splunk DB Connect installed to your heavy forwarders or single instance Splunk Enterprise in order to collect data for inventory and performance events with this add-on. This version of the Splunk Add-on for Oracle Database works with DB Connect version 3.X. For information about installing DB Connect, refer to Splunk DB Connect documentation.
  • Unified Auditing has to be enabled in Oracle Database.
  • If you do not want to collect data based on database entries, you do not need to install DB Connect and thus you can use a universal or light forwarder instead of a heavy forwarder for your monitor inputs. In this scenario, do not include any of the DB Connect-dependent input stanzas in your local/inputs.conf, or you will see errors on startup.

Splunk platform requirements

Because this add-on runs on the Splunk platform, all of the system requirements apply for the Splunk software that you use to run this add-on.

  • For Splunk Enterprise system requirements, see System Requirements in the Splunk Enterprise Installation Manual.
  • If you are managing on-premises forwarders to get data into Splunk Cloud, see System Requirements in the Splunk Enterprise Installation Manual, which includes information about forwarders.
Last modified on 22 April, 2022
Release history of the Splunk Add-on for Oracle Database   Installation and configuration overview for the Splunk Add-on for Oracle Database

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