Different Oracle Health Check Tools

There are quite a few health check tools provided by Oracle
for both Engineered and Non-Engineered Systems. This article explains which
tool is a best choice for a given system.

Table showing different Health Check Tools available for
Engineered and Non-Engineered Systems

• Log in to the system as root user
   
• Stage the appropriate orachk.zip kit in its own
  directory the node on which the tool will be executed. Eg:
  /u01/app/oracle/stage
   
• Unzip orachk.zip kit, leaving the script and
  driver files together in the same directory
  # unzip orachk.zip –d /tmp/orachk
   
• Validate the permissions for orachk are 755
  (-rwxr-xr-x). If the permissions are not currently set to 755, set the
  permissions on orachk as follows:
  #cd /tmp/orachk
  # chmod 755 orachk
   
• Invoke the tool as follows:
  #cd /tmp/orachk
  #./orachk
   
  Follow the prompts while reading and
  understanding all messages.
   
• Upon completion of ORAchk command the following
  (or similar) will be displayed:

In this article we have seen different Oracle
Health Check tool available and how to use them.