The DBMS must preserve any organization-defined system state information in the event of a system failure.
An XCCDF Rule
Description
<VulnDiscussion>Failure in a known state can address safety or security in accordance with the mission/business needs of the organization. Failure in a known secure state helps prevent a loss of confidentiality, integrity, or availability in the event of a failure of the information system or a component of the system. Preserving information system state information helps to facilitate system restart and return to the operational mode of the organization with less disruption of mission/business processes.</VulnDiscussion><FalsePositives></FalsePositives><FalseNegatives></FalseNegatives><Documentable>false</Documentable><Mitigations></Mitigations><SeverityOverrideGuidance></SeverityOverrideGuidance><PotentialImpacts></PotentialImpacts><ThirdPartyTools></ThirdPartyTools><MitigationControl></MitigationControl><Responsibility></Responsibility><IAControls></IAControls>
- ID
- SV-220296r961125_rule
- Severity
- Medium
- References
- Updated
Remediation - Manual Procedure
Configure DBMS settings to preserve all required system state information in the event of a system failure.
If the database is not in archive log mode, issue the following commands to put the database in archive log mode. The database must be normally shutdown and restarted before it can be placed in archive log mode.
$ sqlplus connect as sysdba -- stop and dismount database and shutdown instance.
SQL> shutdown immediate;