Re: Exadata cleanup trace/logs/aud/etc files anyone?

From: Jack van Zanen <jack_at_vanzanen.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:44:42 +1100
Message-ID: <CAFeFPA9UhS891OZMJn=Hausj5d8ZxTNpwcj2wjkWz_c1OVgp_g_at_mail.gmail.com>



I hear you...

I thought it was just us

I like when the Field engineer ask questions about the layout in the datacenter....I have not been there. Planning to go soon though, just to have a look.

Jack van Zanen



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On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 3:26 PM Chris Taylor < christopherdtaylor1994_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> I can't say I like it . The SR process is a complete wreck.
>
> - Hard disk failure? DIMM failures? Yes to both - much more than you
> would think a system would ever generate in a year much less in a MONTH.
> Oracle contacts the primary contact with a new SR that gets assigned to
> you. Then you have to play middle-man between the organization that
> controls data center access, and the SR tech and the Dispatch team and
> field engineer. Cannot adequately express my frustration with this process
> here without potentially getting bad for profanity.
>
> - SR process to talk to CloudOPs goes something like: Open SR , get
> assigned to tech , escalate etc but at NO TIME DO YOU GET TO ACTUALLY TALK
> TO A CLOUDOPS tech. For example: Need info about the Dom0 storage cells
> --- like an ExaWatcher report? That takes a week.
>
> - Root , /u01, /u02 all undersized tremendously for the sheer amount of
> logs that gets spewed everywhere.
>
> Not my favorite system or setup by any stretch of the imagination..
>
> Chris
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 12:15 AM Jack van Zanen <jack_at_vanzanen.com> wrote:
>
>> +1
>>
>> How do you find the cloud at customer experience?
>>
>> I have never had to open so many SR's because stuff just doesn't work as
>> I have in the last year working with this system.
>>
>> They range from Oracle homes not physically being able to be patched to
>> Standby database getting corrupted blocks, default service name for PDB all
>> of a sudden active in CDB$ROOT after switchover (apparently there is a
>> mandatory patch for that)
>> I am learning a lot about the system though. But it is quite frustrating
>>
>>
>> Jack van Zanen
>>
>>
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>> On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 5:08 AM Chris Taylor <
>> christopherdtaylor1994_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Chris
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 11:29 AM Shane Borden <sborden76_at_yahoo.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://docs.oracle.com/en/solutions/load-cloud-at-customer-logs-siem/manage-oracle-cloud-customer-logs1.html#GUID-32BB3360-5598-41A0-BEE0-55F63B29DB87
>>>>
>>>> On Oct 28, 2019, at 11:19 AM, Chris Taylor <
>>>> christopherdtaylor1994_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> We've got an Exadata Cloud at Customer machine in our data center now
>>>> and I the amount of logs/trc/aud/etc files generated throughout the system
>>>> is quite the marvel.
>>>>
>>>> I'm curious if anyone has an automated script to keep their Exadata
>>>> nodes cleaned up and wouldn't mind sharing?
>>>>
>>>> I'll write my own if needed but if someone has one they're particularly
>>>> proud of, I'd be grateful to not have to start from scratch.
>>>>
>>>> We only have access to DomU so its just a matter of keeping filesystems
>>>> as clean as possible such as:
>>>>
>>>> Filesystems:
>>>> /
>>>> /u01
>>>> /u02
>>>> <cluster home>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Chris
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>

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