Audit Trail in Oracle Apps - EBS

Written by Anil Passi

Sunday, 26 November 2006 17:58

Oracle Apps provides an Out of the Box Audit Trail Functionality that works like a charm.

I never had thought about writing an Article on Audit Trail feature, until Kartikey pinged me to
write an article on this subject. You can achieve Auditing[as explained in Step by Step example
below] without writing a single piece of Code in Oracle Apps. It can be argued that CDC
[change data capture] might be used, but I think the design of CDC is more friendly for
Warehousing purposes, rather than Audit Reporting.

Lets say that we wish to create a audit trail on a table named FND_LOOKUP_VALUES.

Step 1: Find the name of Application for table to be Audited

Lets first find the application name of this Oracle Apps table.
SELECT application_name
FROM fnd_application_vl fav, fnd_tables ft
WHERE ft.table_name = 'FND_LOOKUP_VALUES'
AND ft.application_id = fav.application_id

The above SQL returns Application Object Library.

Step 2: Ensure that Audit on the Application is Enabled

Navigate to System Administrator Menu Security/AuditTrail/Install

The owner of table FND_LOOKUP_VALUES is APPLSYS. Hence query on APPLSYS to

ensure that Audit is enabled for this Application.

Step 3: Create Audit Group

Navigate to System Administrator Menu Security/AuditTrail/Groups

Application Name: Application Object Library

Audit Group: XX Audit Lookup Values
Group State: Enabled

Now, add audit tables to this group[you can add as many tables]
User Table Name: FND_LOOKUP_VALUES

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Written by Anil Passi

Sunday, 26 November 2006 17:58

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Written by Anil Passi

Sunday, 26 November 2006 17:58

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