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Re: Health checks for Oracle

From: qazmlp <qazmlp1209_at_rediffmail.com>
Date: 17 Oct 2004 08:52:31 -0700
Message-ID: <db9bbf31.0410170752.15d8f575@posting.google.com>


Hans Forbrich <news.hans_at_telus.net> wrote in message news:<aoSad.35513$663.5659_at_edtnps84>...
> qazmlp wrote:
>
> > During the Oracle installation/upgrade, the logs will be written into
> > /export/home/oracle/oraInventory/logs
> >
> > Are there any logs(for Oracle) written during the normal run-time i.e.
> > after the Oracle installation/upgrade is completed?
>
> Yes. Many. Listed in the documentation. Start at the Concepts manual,
> then proceed to the Database Administration Manual.
>
> >
> > Basically, I want to have some health checks(for the complete software
> > stack) for the system where my application is running. Hence, I am
> > trying to find such health check steps for checking Oracle itself.
>
> Start by reading the documetation to understand what the pieces of Oracle
> are trying to do.
>
> Do a regular check of Oracle's alert.log and the other logs that are
> identified in the dooc.
>
> Run Oracle Enterprise Manager in OMS mode and refer to the reports and the
> events and fix-it jobs it has available. That is a major part of it's
> purpose!
>
> Use OEM's diagnostic pack

Thanks for the useful tips.

alert.log seems to be a first point where we can get a snapshot of all the Oracle errors i.e. grep ORA- alert_DBName.log. Thanks for that info! Received on Sun Oct 17 2004 - 10:52:31 CDT

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