Database Management Services, Oracle Database Management Solution, Oracle Exadata, Remote Database Management

What are the different Exadata Deployment Option available?

– Exadata On-Premises

– Exadata Cloud Service

– Exadata Cloud at Customer

What is Oracle Exadata Database Machine?

Exadata Database Machine is an Engineered System which consists of Compute nodes, Storage cells and Infiniband Switches or RoCE Switches (starting X8M).

Exadata Database Machine or simply known as Exadata is:

– An Engineered System

– A preconfigured combination of balanced Hardware and unique software

– A unique platform for running Oracle Databases

– Consists of Compute Grid, Storage Grid and Network Grid

– A fully integrated platform for Oracle Database

– Ideal for Database Consolidation platform

– It provides High Availability and High Performance for all types of Workloads

The Oracle Exadata Database Machine is an Engineered System designed to deliver extreme performance and high availability for all type of Oracle database workloads (OLTP, OLAP & Mixed Workload).

Exadata Database Machine Components

1. Compute nodes (Database Server Grid)
2. Exadata Storage Server (Storage Server Grid)
3. Network (Network Grid)
- – Exadata Infiniband switches
- – Exadata RoCE switches – From Exadata X8M
4. Other Components
- – Cisco Switch, PDUs

Oracle Exadata Cloud Service

Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Service delivers the world’s most advanced database cloud by combining the world’s #1 database technology and Exadata, the most powerful database platform, with the simplicity, agility and elasticity of a cloud-based deployment.

Oracle Exadata Cloud @ Customer

Exadata C@C is ideal for customers desiring cloud benefits but cannot move their databases to the public cloud due to sovereignty laws, industry regulations, corporate policies, security requirements, network latency, or organizations that find it impractical to move databases away from other tightly coupled on-premises IT infrastructure. Oracle Exadata C@C delivers the world’s most advanced database cloud to customers who require their databases to be located on-premises. It is identical to Oracle’s Exadata Cloud Service but located in customers’ own data centers and managed by Oracle.

Oracle Exadata Deployment Comparison

Let’s compare each Exadata deployment to learn about them in detail so we can choose the right deployment option for our Business need.

Oracle Exadata Deployment Option Chart | Netsoftmate

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5 Reasons Why you Should Run your Oracle Database on Oracle Exadata

By Netsoftmate on

May 5, 2020

- Database Management Services, Oracle Exadata, Oracle Exadata X8M, Remote Database Management

If you are looking for highest levels of database performance for your Oracle database then, Oracle Exadata is an outstanding solution. It delivers finest performance for mixed data, data warehousing (DW), analytics, and OLTP (online transaction processing) workloads. Enriched with a variety of deployment options, it lets you run your Oracle Database and other data workloads anywhere you need, whether its on-premises or in the Oracle Cloud. Oracle Exadata storage provides a cutting-edge technology which is simple to use, manage and provides mission-critical accessibility and reliability. Here are 5 reasons stating why should you run the Oracle Database on Oracle Exadata.

5 Reasons Why you Should Run Your Oracle Database on Oracle Exadata | Netsoftmate

1. Bespoke for Oracle Database

Following a standard approach to build your database infrastructure will hamper your business growth. With time, databases grow, which means, your business needs more servers, more storage solutions and more labor to manage it. As a result, the management cost will go up and there is a huge exposure to risk of errors, ultimately hampering your business growth. That’s why each business, big or small, needs a new approach that’s engineered to cater the critical database workloads.

The only technique to handle these critical database workloads is through Oracle Exadata. It is specially equipped to provide high storage bandwidth to seamlessly manage the Oracle Database and other data workloads. Oracle Exadata, as a part of Oracle Engineered System offers a highly integrated platform that delivers more power with less hardware. It eliminates the IT complexity while supplying greater performance, scalability, security and data protection.

2. Increase Employee Productivity

Timely delivery of persuasive data that supports business operations and lessens the time required to deliver new business applications will surely result in better revenue. Oracle Exadata’s congregated and optimized infrastructure platform for database workloads helps the IT staff to spend less time on everyday operations and work more towards other IT development efforts. Accidental outages have less effect on employees and business operations that have lesser database related failures.

The consolidated Oracle Exadata platform provides an economical base for Oracle database operations. It increases employee productivity and helps grow revenues with less cost and complexity. With an enhanced performance up to 100X faster, accessing the data becomes easy and you can engage with customers quickly. With the same power, you can consolidate your databases onto a single platform, and deliver more than four times the density

3. Achieve Operational Benefits

Businesses that rely on multiple vendors may face problems in managing a complex database infrastructure. Retaining and managing each database and server overstrains IT staff, and establishing new applications can take longer than usual. You may also need IT specialists to take care of each different component. As the number of applications and their associated databases increases, your admin costs go up, and so will your data center footprint.

Oracle Exadata delivers greater database and application performance with less hardware—and fewer licenses. Oracle Exadata, from Oracle Engineered Systems means easier upgrades, tuning, patching, observing and support, so you can manage your costs. They process transactions faster, complete queries in less time, and have decreased load and backup recovery times.

4. Maximize Accessibility

Positive data security and database uptime are critical components that directly impact the business operations and revenue progress. Database collapse makes it tough to establish dependable security, plan and policies for sensitive data. There are too many points of control to monitor and maintain. A larger base is vulnerable to attack and there’s hardly enough budget for the specialist skills vital to manage it.

That’s the reason; businesses use Oracle Exadata to run their most important Oracle database and other data workloads. With software and hardware operational together, Oracle Exadata eliminates system downtime, using its in-built flexibility and redundancy. With Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture, you can get the ultimate in invincible uptime. The benefits include, less business impact from outages, less IT impact in managing downtime and reliable application and developer productivity.

5. Invest in the Cloud

Businesses always plan for a simple and comprehensive cloud strategy and application. Ideally, businesses strategize to invest in an architecture offering an apt pathway to a cloud consumption model for the future. A full-proof plan that is flexible to mix and match on-premises deployment with a well-matched public cloud option, whether that’s for development, improvement and testing or ensuring business endurance.

Oracle Exadata offers the best of both worlds for the database and the business. Businesses can either purchase and manage on-premises Oracle Exadata or choose an Oracle Database Cloud Exadata Service. Oracle Cloud service is equivalent to an on-premises Oracle Exadata, just with a different consumption model. That’s why all the components of Oracle Engineered System are a powerful set of options. They are designed with the same architecture, with all the same benefits. All you need to do is choose which consumption model works best for you.

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All You Need To Know About Oracle Autonomous Health Framework Execution

By Netsoftmate on

April 16, 2020

- Database Management Services, Oracle Database Management Solution, Oracle Databases

Recently Oracle introduced “Autonomous Health Framework”. Oracle Autonomous Health Framework contains Oracle ORAchk, Oracle EXAchk, and Oracle Trace File Analyzer.

You have access to Oracle Autonomous Health Framework as a value add-on to your existing support contract. There is no additional fee or license required to run Oracle Autonomous Health Framework.

In this article we will learn how to Install, setup and execute AHF for Oracle Exadata Database machine in detail.

Step 1: Download AHF for Linux operating system as shown below. Here we are using the wget command to download file directly to the server. If you don’t have proxy you can download the file MOS to your desktop and copy it the server using WinSCP.

[root@dm01db01 ~]# cd /u01/app/oracle/software/

[root@dm01db01 software]# mkdir Exachk

[root@dm01db01 software]# cd Exachk/

[root@dm01db01 Exachk]# export use_proxy=on

[root@dm01db01 Exachk]# export http_proxy=”webproxy.netsoftmate.come:80/”

Download the AHF zip file

[root@dm01db01 Exachk]# wget –http-user=abdul.mohammed@netsoftmate.com –http-password=************ –no-check-certificate –output-document=AHF-LINUX_v20.1.1.zip “https://updates.oracle.com/Orion/Services/download/AHF-LINUX_v20.1.1.zip?aru=23443431&patch_file=AHF-LINUX_v20.1.1.zip”

Download the latest cvu. This will be used by the exachk to run the cluster verification

[root@dm01db01 Exachk]# wget –http-user=abdul.mohammed@netsoftmate.com –http-password=************ –no-check-certificate –output-document=cvupack_Linux_x86_64.zip “https://download.oracle.com/otndocs/products/clustering/cvu/cvupack_Linux_x86_64.zip”

[root@dm01db01 Exachk]# ls -ltr

total 356748

-rw-r–r– 1 root root 365267646 Mar 17 16:02 AHF-LINUX_v20.1.1.zip

-rw-r–r– 1 root root 293648959 Jul 13 2018 cvupack_Linux_x86_64.zip

Step 2: Unzip the AHF zip file

[root@dm01db01 Exachk]# unzip AHF-LINUX_v20.1.1.zip

Archive: AHF-LINUX_v20.1.1.zip

inflating: README.txt

inflating: ahf_setup

[root@dm01db01 Exachk]# ./ahf_setup -v

AHF Build ID : 20110020200317092524

AHF Build Platform : Linux

AHF Build Architecture : x86_64

Step 3: Execute the AHF setup

[root@dm01db01 Exachk]# ./ahf_setup

AHF Installer for Platform Linux Architecture x86_64

AHF Installation Log : /tmp/ahf_install_344489_2020_04_06-12_20_51.log

Starting Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) Installation

AHF Version: 20.1.1.0.0 Build Date: 202003170925

TFA is already installed at : /u01/app/11.2.0.4/grid/tfa/dm01db01/tfa_home

Installed TFA Version : 122111 Build ID : 20170612164756

Default AHF Location : /opt/oracle.ahf

Do you want to install AHF at [/opt/oracle.ahf] ? [Y]|N : Y

AHF Location : /opt/oracle.ahf

AHF Data Directory stores diagnostic collections and metadata.

AHF Data Directory requires at least 5GB (Recommended 10GB) of free space.

Choose Data Directory from below options :

/u01/app/oracle [Free Space : 50454 MB]
Enter a different Location

Choose Option [1 – 2] : 1

AHF Data Directory : /u01/app/oracle/oracle.ahf/data

exachk scheduler is already running at : /root/Exachk

Installed exachk version : EXACHK VERSION: 19.2.0_20190717

Stopping exachk scheduler

Copying exachk configuration from /root/Exachk

Shutting down TFA : /u01/app/11.2.0.4/grid/tfa/dm01db01/tfa_home

Copying TFA Data Files from /u01/app/11.2.0.4/grid/tfa/dm01db01/tfa_home

Uninstalling TFA : /u01/app/11.2.0.4/grid/tfa/dm01db01/tfa_home

Do you want to add AHF Notification Email IDs ? [Y]|N : Y

Enter Email IDs separated by space : abdul.mohammed@netsoftmate.com

AHF will also be installed/upgraded on these Cluster Nodes :

dm01db02
dm01db03
dm01db04

The AHF Location and AHF Data Directory must exist on the above nodes

AHF Location : /opt/oracle.ahf

AHF Data Directory : /u01/app/oracle/oracle.ahf/data

Do you want to install/upgrade AHF on Cluster Nodes ? [Y]|N : Y

Extracting AHF to /opt/oracle.ahf

Configuring TFA Services

Copying TFA Data Files to AHF

Discovering Nodes and Oracle Resources

TFA will configure Storage Cells using SSH Setup:

.———————————–.

| | EXADATA CELL | CURRENT STATUS |

+—+————–+—————-+

| 1 | dm01cel01 | ONLINE |

| 2 | dm01cel02 | ONLINE |

| 3 | dm01cel03 | ONLINE |

| 4 | dm01cel04 | ONLINE |

| 5 | dm01cel05 | ONLINE |

| 6 | dm01cel06 | ONLINE |

| 7 | dm01cel07 | ONLINE |

‘—+————–+—————-‘

Not generating certificates as GI discovered

Starting TFA Services

.——————————————————————————-.

+———–+—————+——–+——+————+———————-+

| dm01db01 | RUNNING | 365382 | 5000 | 20.1.1.0.0 | 20110020200317092524 |

‘———–+—————+——–+——+————+———————-‘

Running TFA Inventory…

Adding default users to TFA Access list…

.——————————————————————.

| Summary of AHF Configuration |

+—————–+————————————————+

| Parameter | Value |

+—————–+————————————————+

| AHF Location | /opt/oracle.ahf |

| TFA Location | /opt/oracle.ahf/tfa |

| Exachk Location | /opt/oracle.ahf/exachk |

| Data Directory | /u01/app/oracle/oracle.ahf/data |

| Repository | /u01/app/oracle/oracle.ahf/data/repository |

| Diag Directory | /u01/app/oracle/oracle.ahf/data/dm01db01/diag |

‘—————–+————————————————‘

Retrieving legacy exachk wallet details …

Storing exachk wallet details into AHF config/wallet …

Starting exachk daemon from AHF …

AHF install completed on dm01db01

Installing AHF on Remote Nodes :

AHF will be installed on dm01db02, Please wait.

Installing AHF on dm01db02 :

[dm01db02] Copying AHF Installer

[dm01db02] Running AHF Installer

AHF will be installed on dm01db03, Please wait.

Installing AHF on dm01db03 :

[dm01db03] Copying AHF Installer

[dm01db03] Running AHF Installer

AHF will be installed on dm01db04, Please wait.

Installing AHF on dm01db04 :

[dm01db04] Copying AHF Installer

[dm01db04] Running AHF Installer

AHF binaries are available in /opt/oracle.ahf/bin

AHF is successfully installed

Moving /tmp/ahf_install_251936_2020_04_06-13_07_32.log to /u01/app/oracle/oracle.ahf/data/dm01db01/diag/ahf/

Step 4: Verify AHF setup

[root@dm01db01 Exachk]# cd /opt/oracle.ahf/

[root@dm01db01 oracle.ahf]# ls -ltr

total 36

drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Nov 19 02:38 python

drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Mar 17 11:25 ahf

drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Mar 17 11:25 common

drwxr-x–x 5 root root 4096 Mar 17 11:25 jre

drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Apr 6 12:28 exachk

drwxr-x–x 2 root root 4096 Apr 6 12:28 analyzer

-rw-r–r– 1 root root 1057 Apr 6 12:28 install.properties

drwxr-x–x 9 root root 4096 Apr 6 12:28 tfa

drwxr-x–x 2 root root 4096 Apr 6 12:28 bin

[root@dm01db01 oracle.ahf]# cd exachk/

[root@dm01db01 exachk]# ls -ltr

total 81772

-rw-r–r– 1 root root 186651 Mar 17 11:20 exachk.pyc

-rw-r–r– 1 root root 65423079 Mar 17 11:23 collections.dat

-rw-r–r– 1 root root 9674765 Mar 17 11:23 rules.dat

-rw-r–r– 1 root root 8341706 Mar 17 11:24 Apex5_CollectionManager_App.sql

-rw-r–r– 1 root root 43473 Mar 17 11:24 sample_user_defined_checks.xml

-r–r–r– 1 root root 3217 Mar 17 11:24 user_defined_checks.xsd

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 17 11:24 messages

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 17 11:25 web

drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 17 11:25 lib

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Mar 17 11:25 build

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 6 12:28 bash

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 25788 Apr 6 12:28 exachk

Step 5: unzip the cvu zip file under AHF home as show below

[root@dm01db01 Exachk]# unzip cvupack_Linux_x86_64.zip -d /opt/oracle.ahf/common/cvu

[root@dm01db01 Exachk]# ls -ltr /opt/oracle.ahf/common/cvu

total 92

drwxrwxr-x 7 root root 4096 Jun 13 2018 jdk

drwxrwxr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 13 2018 srvm

drwxrwxr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 13 2018 has

drwxrwxr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 13 2018 crs

drwxrwxr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 13 2018 suptools

drwxrwxr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 13 2018 oss

drwxrwxr-x 7 root root 4096 Jun 13 2018 cv

drwxrwxr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 13 2018 xdk

drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 13 2018 utl

drwxrwxr-x 4 root root 4096 Jun 13 2018 rdbms

drwxrwxr-x 6 root root 4096 Jun 13 2018 install

drwxrwxr-x 4 root root 4096 Jun 13 2018 deinstall

drwxrwxr-x 4 root root 4096 Jun 13 2018 clone

drwxrwxr-x 8 root root 4096 Jun 13 2018 oui

drwxrwxr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 13 2018 diagnostics

drwxrwxr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 13 2018 oracore

drwxrwxr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 13 2018 nls

drwxrwxr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 13 2018 jdbc

drwxrwxr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 13 2018 dbjava

drwxrwxr-x 6 root root 4096 Jun 13 2018 network

drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 13 2018 jlib

drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 13 2018 lib

drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 13 2018 bin

Note: If you don’t download and extract the cvupack you will get the following warning message.

“Either Cluster Verification Utility pack (cvupack) does not exist at /opt/oracle.ahf/common/cvu or it is an old or invalid cvupack”

Step 6: Execute Exachk for Exadata

[root@dm01db01 ~]# cd /opt/oracle.ahf/exachk/

[root@dm01db01 exachk]# ./exachk

Checking ssh user equivalency settings on all nodes in cluster for root

Node dm01db02 is configured for ssh user equivalency for root user

Node dm01db03 is configured for ssh user equivalency for root user

Node dm01db04 is configured for ssh user equivalency for root user

Searching for running databases . . . . .

. . . .

List of running databases registered in OCR

testdb
orcldb
All of above
None of above

Select databases from list for checking best practices. For multiple databases, select 3 for All or comma separated number like 1,2 etc [1-4][3].

Searching out ORACLE_HOME for selected databases.

. . . . . . .

Checking Status of Oracle Software Stack – Clusterware, ASM, RDBMS

. . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

——————————————————————————————————-

Oracle Stack Status

——————————————————————————————————-

Host Name CRS Installed RDBMS Installed CRS UP ASM UP RDBMS UP DB Instance Name

——————————————————————————————————-

dm01db01 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes orcldb1 testdb1

dm01db02 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes testdb2 orcldb2

dm01db03 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes orcldb3 testdb3

dm01db04 Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes testdb4 orcldb4

——————————————————————————————————-

Copying plug-ins

. .

Node dm01cel01-priv2 is configured for ssh user equivalency for root user

Node dm01cel02-priv2 is configured for ssh user equivalency for root user

Node dm01cel03-priv2 is configured for ssh user equivalency for root user

Node dm01cel04-priv2 is configured for ssh user equivalency for root user

Node dm01cel05-priv2 is configured for ssh user equivalency for root user

Node dm01cel06-priv2 is configured for ssh user equivalency for root user

Node dm01cel07-priv2 is configured for ssh user equivalency for root user

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

dm01sw-ibb01 is configured for ssh user equivalency for root user

dm01sw-iba01 is configured for ssh user equivalency for root user

*** Checking Best Practice Recommendations ( Pass / Warning / Fail ) ***

. .

Collections and audit checks log file is

/u01/app/oracle/oracle.ahf/data/dm01db01/exachk/exachk_dm01db01_orcldb_040620_12376/log/exachk.log

Starting to run exachk in background on dm01db02

Starting to run exachk in background on dm01db03

Starting to run exachk in background on dm01db04

============================================================

Node name – dm01db01

============================================================

Collecting – ASM Disk Group for Infrastructure Software and Configuration

Collecting – ASM Diskgroup Attributes

Collecting – ASM diskgroup usable free space

Collecting – ASM initialization parameters

Collecting – Database Parameters for testdb database

Collecting – Database Parameters for orcldb database

Collecting – Database Undocumented Parameters for orcldb database

Collecting – RDBMS Feature Usage for orcldb database

Collecting – CPU Information

Collecting – Clusterware and RDBMS software version

Collecting – Compute node PCI bus slot speed for infiniband HCAs

Collecting – Kernel parameters

Collecting – Maximum number of semaphore sets on system

Collecting – Maximum number of semaphores on system

Collecting – OS Packages

Collecting – Patches for Grid Infrastructure

Collecting – Patches for RDBMS Home

Collecting – RDBMS patch inventory

Collecting – Switch Version Information

Collecting – number of semaphore operations per semop system call

Collecting – CRS user limits configuration

Collecting – CRS user time zone check

Collecting – Check alerthistory for non-test open stateless alerts [Database Server]

Collecting – Check alerthistory for stateful alerts not cleared [Database Server]

Collecting – Clusterware patch inventory

Collecting – Discover switch type(spine or leaf)

Collecting – Enterprise Manager agent targets

Collecting – Exadata Critical Issue DB09

Collecting – Exadata Critical Issue EX30

Collecting – Exadata Critical Issue EX36

Collecting – Exadata Critical Issue EX56

Collecting – Exadata Critical Issue EX57

Collecting – Exadata Critical Issue EX58

Collecting – Exadata critical issue EX48

Collecting – Exadata critical issue EX55

Collecting – Exadata software version on database server

Collecting – Exadata system model number

Collecting – Exadata version on database server

Collecting – HCA firmware version on database server

Collecting – HCA transfer rate on database server

Collecting – Infrastructure Software and Configuration for compute

Collecting – MaxStartups setting in sshd_config

Collecting – OFED Software version on database server

Collecting – Obtain hardware information

Collecting – Operating system and Kernel version on database server

Collecting – Oracle monitoring agent and/or OS settings on ADR diagnostic directories

Collecting – Raid controller bus link speed

Collecting – Review Non-Exadata components in use on the InfiniBand fabric

Collecting – System Event Log

Collecting – Validate key sysctl.conf parameters on database servers

Collecting – Verify Data Network is Separate from Management Network

Collecting – Verify Database Server Disk Controller Configuration

Collecting – Verify Database Server Physical Drive Configuration

Collecting – Verify Database Server Virtual Drive Configuration

Collecting – Verify Disk Cache Policy on database server

Collecting – Verify Hardware and Firmware on Database and Storage Servers (CheckHWnFWProfile) [Database Server]

Collecting – Verify ILOM Power Up Configuration for HOST_AUTO_POWER_ON

Collecting – Verify ILOM Power Up Configuration for HOST_LAST_POWER_STATE

Collecting – Verify IP routing configuration on database servers

Collecting – Verify InfiniBand Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) Configuration on Database Servers

Collecting – Verify Master (Rack) Serial Number is Set [Database Server]

Collecting – Verify Quorum disks configuration

Collecting – Verify RAID Controller Battery Temperature [Database Server]

Collecting – Verify RAID disk controller CacheVault capacitor condition [Database Server]

Collecting – Verify TCP Segmentation Offload (TSO) is set to off

Collecting – Verify available ksplice fixes are installed [Database Server]

Collecting – Verify basic Logical Volume(LVM) system devices configuration

Collecting – Verify database server InfiniBand network MTU size

Collecting – Verify database server disk controllers use writeback cache

Collecting – Verify database server file systems have Check interval = 0

Collecting – Verify database server file systems have Maximum mount count = -1

Collecting – Verify imageinfo on database server

Collecting – Verify imageinfo on database server to compare systemwide

Collecting – Verify installed rpm(s) kernel type match the active kernel version

Collecting – Verify key InfiniBand fabric error counters are not present

Collecting – Verify no database server kernel out of memory errors

Collecting – Verify proper ACFS drivers are installed for Spectre v2 mitigation

Collecting – Verify service exachkcfg autostart status on database server

Collecting – Verify the localhost alias is pingable [Database Server]

Collecting – Verify the InfiniBand Fabric Topology (verify-topology)

Collecting – Verify the Master Subnet Manager is running on an InfiniBand switch

Collecting – Verify the Name Service Cache Daemon (NSCD) configuration

Collecting – Verify the Subnet Manager is properly disabled [Database Server]

Collecting – Verify the currently active image status [Database Server]

Collecting – Verify the ib_sdp module is not loaded into the kernel

Collecting – Verify the storage servers in use configuration matches across the cluster

Collecting – Verify the vm.min_free_kbytes configuration

Collecting – Verify there are no files present that impact normal firmware update procedures [Database Server]

Collecting – collect time server data [Database Server]

Collecting – root time zone check

Collecting – verify asr exadata configuration check via ASREXACHECK on database server

Starting to run root privileged commands in background on storage server dm01cel01 (192.168.1.6)

Starting to run root privileged commands in background on storage server dm01cel02 (192.168.1.8)

Starting to run root privileged commands in background on storage server dm01cel03 (192.168.1.10)

Starting to run root privileged commands in background on storage server dm01cel04 (192.168.1.16)

Starting to run root privileged commands in background on storage server dm01cel05 (192.168.1.18)

Starting to run root privileged commands in background on storage server dm01cel06 (192.168.1.20)

Starting to run root privileged commands in background on storage server dm01cel07 (192.168.1.22)

Starting to run root privileged commands in background on infiniband switch (dm01sw-ibb01)

Starting to run root privileged commands in background on infiniband switch (dm01sw-iba01)

Collections from storage server:

————————————————————

Collections from Infiniband Switch:

————————————————————

Collecting – Exadata Critical Issue IB5

Collecting – Exadata Critical Issue IB6

Collecting – Exadata Critical Issue IB8

Collecting – Hostname in /etc/hosts

Collecting – Infiniband Switch NTP configuration

Collecting – Infiniband subnet manager status

Collecting – Infiniband switch HCA status

Collecting – Infiniband switch HOSTNAME configuration

Collecting – Infiniband switch firmware version

Collecting – Infiniband switch health

Collecting – Infiniband switch localtime configuration

Collecting – Infiniband switch module configuration

Collecting – Infiniband switch subnet manager configuration

Collecting – Infiniband switch type(Spine or leaf)

Collecting – Infrastructure Software and Configuration for switch

Collecting – Verify average ping times to DNS nameserver [IB Switch]

Collecting – Verify no IB switch ports disabled due to excessive symbol errors

Collecting – Verify the localhost alias is pingable [IB Switch]

Collecting – Verify there are no unhealthy InfiniBand switch sensors

Collecting – sm_priority configuration on Infiniband switch

Data collections completed. Checking best practices on dm01db01.

————————————————————

FAIL => Exadata software version on database server does not meet certified platinum configuration

FAIL => Oracle database does not meet certified platinum configuration for /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0.4/dbhome

WARNING => Database parameter AUDIT_SYS_OPERATIONS should be set to the recommended value on testdb1 instance

WARNING => Database parameter AUDIT_SYS_OPERATIONS should be set to the recommended value on orcldb1 instance

INFO => Oracle GoldenGate failure prevention best practices

INFO => One or more non-default AWR baselines should be created for orcldb

WARNING => Non-default database Services are not configured for orcldb

WARNING => Database parameter processes should be set to recommended value on testdb1 instance

WARNING => Database parameter processes should be set to recommended value on orcldb1 instance

FAIL => _reconnect_to_cell_attempts parameter in cellinit.ora is not set to recommended value

FAIL => Oracle monitoring agent and Operating systems settings on Automatic diagnostic repository directories are not correct or not all targets have been scanned or not all diagnostic directories found

FAIL => Storage Server user “CELLDIAG” should exist

FAIL => Downdelay attribute is not set to recommended value on bonded client interface

FAIL => One or more of SYSTEM, SYSAUX, USERS, TEMP tablespaces are not of type bigfile for orcldb

FAIL => The initialization parameter cluster_database_instances should be at the default value for testdb

FAIL => The initialization parameter cluster_database_instances should be at the default value for orcldb

WARNING => SYS or SYSTEM objects were found to be INVALID for orcldb

WARNING => There are non-Exadata components in use on the InfiniBand fabric

INFO => Database parameter AUDIT_TRAIL should be set to the recommended value for testdb

INFO => Database parameter AUDIT_TRAIL should be set to the recommended value for orcldb

FAIL => Memlock settings do not meet the Oracle best practice recommendations for /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0.4/dbhome

WARNING => All disk groups should have compatible.advm attribute set to recommended values

WARNING => All disk groups should have compatible.rdbms attribute set to recommended values

WARNING => Database has one or more dictionary managed tablespace for orcldb

CRITICAL => System is exposed to Exadata Critical Issue EX58

FAIL => Some data or temp files are not autoextensible for orcldb

WARNING => Key InfiniBand fabric error counters should not be present

CRITICAL => One or more log archive destination and alternate log archive destination settings are not as recommended for orcldb

FAIL => Database parameter DB_LOST_WRITE_PROTECT is not set to recommended value on testdb1 instance

FAIL => Database parameter DB_LOST_WRITE_PROTECT is not set to recommended value on orcldb1 instance

FAIL => Database parameter GLOBAL_NAMES is not set to recommended value on testdb1 instance

FAIL => Database parameter GLOBAL_NAMES is not set to recommended value on orcldb1 instance

FAIL => Database parameter PARALLEL_ADAPTIVE_MULTI_USER is not set to recommended value on testdb1 instance

FAIL => Database parameter PARALLEL_ADAPTIVE_MULTI_USER is not set to recommended value on orcldb1 instance

FAIL => Database parameter PARALLEL_THREADS_PER_CPU is not set to recommended value on testdb1 instance

FAIL => Database parameter PARALLEL_THREADS_PER_CPU is not set to recommended value on orcldb1 instance

FAIL => Database parameter OS_AUTHENT_PREFIX is not set to recommended value on testdb1 instance

FAIL => Database parameter OS_AUTHENT_PREFIX is not set to recommended value on orcldb1 instance

FAIL => Database parameter sql92_security is not set to recommended value on testdb1 instance

FAIL => Database parameter sql92_security is not set to recommended value on orcldb1 instance

FAIL => Database parameter COMPATIBLE should be set to recommended value for testdb

FAIL => Database parameter COMPATIBLE should be set to recommended value for orcldb

CRITICAL => Database parameters log_archive_dest_n with Location attribute are not all set to recommended value for orcldb

CRITICAL => Database parameter Db_create_online_log_dest_n is not set to recommended value for testdb

FAIL => Flashback on PRIMARY is not configured for orcldb

FAIL => Flashback on STANDBY is not configured for testdb

INFO => Operational Best Practices

INFO => Database Consolidation Best Practices

INFO => Computer failure prevention best practices

INFO => Data corruption prevention best practices

INFO => Logical corruption prevention best practices

INFO => Database/Cluster/Site failure prevention best practices

INFO => Client failover operational best practices

INFO => Verify the percent of available celldisk space used by the griddisks

WARNING => Application objects were found to be invalid for orcldb

CRITICAL => Database control files are not configured as recommended for testdb

CRITICAL => Database control files are not configured as recommended for orcldb

WARNING => ASM parameter ASM_POWER_LIMIT is not set to the default value.

INFO => While initialization parameter LOG_ARCHIVE_CONFIG is set it should be verified for your environment on Standby Database for testdb

WARNING => Redo log files should be appropriately sized for testdb

WARNING => Redo log files should be appropriately sized for orcldb

FAIL => Table AUD$[FGA_LOG$] should use Automatic Segment Space Management for orcldb

INFO => Database failure prevention best practices

WARNING => Database has one or more dictionary managed tablespace for orcldb

FAIL => Primary database is not protected with Data Guard (standby database) for real-time data protection and availability for orcldb

FAIL => Database parameter LOG_BUFFER is not set to recommended value on orcldb1 instance

INFO => Storage failures prevention best practices

INFO => Software maintenance best practices

CRITICAL => The data files should be recoverable for testdb

CRITICAL => The data files should be recoverable for orcldb

FAIL => FRA space management problem file types are present without an RMAN backup completion within the last 7 days for testdb

INFO => Oracle recovery manager(rman) best practices

WARNING => control_file_record_keep_time should be within recommended range [1-9] for testdb

INFO => Exadata Critical Issues (Doc ID 1270094.1):- DB1-DB4,DB6,DB9-DB44, EX1-EX60 and IB1-IB3,IB5-IB8

Collecting patch inventory on CRS_HOME /u01/app/11.2.0.4/grid

Collecting patch inventory on ORACLE_HOME /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0.4/dbhome

Copying results from dm01db02 and generating report. This might take a while. Be patient.

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