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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+#  coding: utf-8
+#  Copyright (c) 2016, 2018, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+
+#  This script retrieves all audit logs across an OCI Tenancy.
+#  for a timespan defined by start_time and end_time.
+#  This sample script retrieves Audit events for last 5 days.
+#  This script will work at a tenancy level only.
+
+import datetime
+import oci
+
+
+def get_regions(identity):
+    '''
+    To retrieve the list of all available regions.
+    '''
+    list_of_regions = []
+    list_regions_response = identity.list_regions()
+    for r in list_regions_response.data:
+        list_of_regions.append(r.name)
+    return list_of_regions
+
+
+def get_compartments(identity, tenancy_id):
+    '''
+    Retrieve the list of compartments under the tenancy.
+    '''
+    compartment_ocids = []
+    #  Store tenancy id as the first compartment
+    compartment_ocids.append(tenancy_id)
+    list_compartments_response = oci.pagination.list_call_get_all_results(
+        identity.list_compartments,
+        compartment_id=tenancy_id).data
+    for c in list_compartments_response:
+        compartment_ocids.append(c.id)
+    return compartment_ocids
+
+
+def get_audit_events(audit, compartment_ocids, start_time, end_time):
+    '''
+    Get events iteratively for each compartment defined in 'compartments_ocids'
+    for the region defined in 'audit'.
+    This method eagerly loads all audit records in the time range and it does
+    have performance implications of lot of audit records.
+    Ideally, the generator method in oci.pagination should be used to lazily
+    load results.
+    '''
+    list_of_audit_events = []
+    for c in compartment_ocids:
+        list_events_response = oci.pagination.list_call_get_all_results(
+            audit.list_events,
+            compartment_id=c,
+            start_time=start_time,
+            end_time=end_time).data
+
+        #  Results for a compartment 'c' for a region defined
+        #  in 'audit' object.
+        list_of_audit_events.extend(list_events_response)
+        return list_of_audit_events
+
+
+#  Setting configuration
+#  Default path for configuration file is "~/.oci/config"
+config = oci.config.from_file()
+tenancy_id = config["tenancy"]
+
+#  Initiate the client with the locally available config.
+identity = oci.identity.IdentityClient(config)
+
+#  Timespan defined by variables start_time and end_time(today).
+#  ListEvents expects timestamps into RFC3339 format.
+#  For the purposes of sample script, logs of last 5 days.
+end_time = datetime.datetime.utcnow()
+start_time = end_time + datetime.timedelta(days=-5)
+
+# This array will be used to store the list of available regions.
+regions = get_regions(identity)
+
+# This array will be used to store the list of compartments in the tenancy.
+compartments = get_compartments(identity, tenancy_id)
+
+audit = oci.audit.audit_client.AuditClient(config)
+
+#  For each region get the logs for each compartment.
+for r in regions:
+    #  Intialize with a region value.
+    audit.base_client.set_region(r)
+    #  To separate results by region use print here.
+    audit_events = get_audit_events(
+        audit,
+        compartments,
+        start_time,
+        end_time)
+
+    #  Results for a region 'r' for each compartment.
+    if audit_events:
+        print audit_events