oracledb_session

Use the oracledb_session Chef InSpec audit resource to test SQL commands run against a Oracle database.

Availability

Installation

This resource is distributed along with Chef InSpec itself. You can use it automatically.

Version

This resource first became available in v1.0.0 of InSpec.

Syntax

A oracledb_session resource block declares the username and password to use for the session with an optional service to connect to, and then the command to be run:

describe oracledb_session(user: 'username', password: 'password', service: 'ORCL.localdomain').query('QUERY').row(0).column('result') do
  its('value') { should eq('') }
end

where

• oracledb_session declares a username and password with permission to run the query (required), and an optional parameters for host (default: localhost), SID (default: nil, which uses the default SID, and path to the sqlplus binary (default: sqlplus).
• it is possible to run queries as sysdba/sysoper by using as_db_role option, see examples
• SQLcl can be used in place of sqlplus. Use the sqlcl_bin option to set the sqlcl binary path instead of sqlplus_bin.
• query('QUERY') contains the query to be run
• its('value') { should eq('') } compares the results of the query against the expected result in the test

oracledb_session(…).query method Properties

• rows the query result as array of hashes
• row(number) selected row from query result, where number is just a row number in the query result
• column(name) array with values from selected column

Examples

The following examples show how to use this Chef InSpec audit resource.

Test for matching databases

sql = oracledb_session(user: 'my_user', pass: 'password')

describe sql.query('SELECT NAME AS VALUE FROM v$database;').row(0).column('value') do
  its('value') { should cmp 'ORCL' }
end

Test for matching databases with custom host, SID and sqlplus binary location

sql = oracledb_session(user: 'my_user', pass: 'password', host: 'oraclehost', sid: 'mysid', sqlplus_bin: '/u01/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/dbhome_1/bin/sqlplus')

describe sql.query('SELECT NAME FROM v$database;').row(0).column('name') do
  its('value') { should cmp 'ORCL' }
end

Test for table contains a specified value in any row for the given column name

sql = oracledb_session(user: 'my_user', pass: 'password', service: 'MYSID')

describe sql.query('SELECT * FROM my_table;').column('my_column') do
  it { should include 'my_value' }
end

Test tablespace exists as sysdba

The check will change user (with su) to specified user and run 'sqlplus / as sysdba' (sysoper, sysasm) 

sql = oracledb_session(as_os_user: 'oracle', as_db_role: 'sysdba', service: 'MYSID')

describe sql.query('SELECT tablespace_name AS name FROM dba_tablespaces;').column('name') do
  it { should include 'MYTABLESPACE' }
end
NOTE: option `as_os_user` available only on unix-like systems and not supported on Windows. Also this option requires that you are running inspec as `root` or with `--sudo`

Test number of rows in the query result

sql = oracledb_session(user: 'my_user', pass: 'password')

describe sql.query('SELECT * FROM my_table;').rows do
  its('count') { should eq 20 }
end

Use data out of (remote) DB query to build other tests

sql = oracledb_session(user: 'my_user', pass: 'password', host: 'my.remote.db', service: 'MYSID')

sql.query('SELECT * FROM files;').rows.each do |file_row|
  describe file(file_row['path']) do
    its('owner') { should eq file_row['owner']}
  end
end

Matchers

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