Oracle ORAchk & EXAchk 18.3.0 new features

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ORAchk & EXAchk
What’s New in 18.3.0

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Automatic proactive warning
of problems before they
impact you
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Get scheduled health reports
sent to you in email
Why Oracle ORAchk & EXAchk
Health checks for most impactful
reoccurring problems
Runs in your environment
with no need to send
anything to Oracle
Findings can be integrated
into other tools of choiceEngineered
Systems
Non
Engineered
Systems
EXAchk
Common Framework
ORAchk

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What’s new
Beta Support for Oracle Private Cloud Appliance
Automatic start from TFA install
Run against individual PDBs
User defined check enhancements
Database role (primary or standby) now shown in report
Deprecation of EBS health checks
New health checks
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What’s new
Beta Support for Oracle Private Cloud Appliance
Automatic start from TFA install
Run against individual PDBs
User defined check enhancements
Database role (primary or standby) now shown in report
Deprecation of EBS health checks
New health checks
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• EXAchk now provides beta support for checks
covering Oracle Private Cloud Appliance
• New checks can be seen in the EXAchk Health Check
Catalog under the Engineered systems of Private
Cloud Appliance and Private Cloud Appliance Plane
Beta Support for Oracle Private Cloud Appliance
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What’s new
Beta Support for Oracle Private Cloud Appliance
Automatic start from TFA install
Run against individual PDBs
User defined check enhancements
Database role (primary or standby) now shown in report
Deprecation of EBS health checks
New health checks
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Automatic Start From Install
• ORAchk will be automatically setup as part of TFA install
– Only on Linux or Solaris
– Only for root install
– Only on non-engineered systems
• Autostart will configure the daemon to restart at 1am every morning to rediscover any environment
changes
• Full Local client run will be triggered at 2am every morning
• Most impactful checks will be run every 2 hours via the oratier1 profile
• Any collections older than 2 weeks will be automatically purged
• To configure Autostart from orachk standalone install use:
• Once enabled daemon settings can be changed as per normal
• Remove with: or
orachk -autostart
orachk -autostop tfactl run orachk -autostop

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What’s new
Beta Support for Oracle Private Cloud Appliance
Automatic start from TFA install
Run against individual PDBs
User defined check enhancements
Database role (primary or standby) now shown in report
Deprecation of EBS health checks
New health checks
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2
4
3
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Run Against Individual PDBs
• ORAchk and EXAchk can now be run against specific individual PDBs
• Use: -pdbnames <pdb_name1,pdb_name2>

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What’s new
Beta Support for Oracle Private Cloud Appliance
Automatic start from TFA install
Run against individual PDBs
User defined check enhancements
Database role (primary or standby) now shown in report
Deprecation of EBS health checks
New health checks
1
2
4
3
5
6
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User Defined Check Enhancements
• User defined checks can now have custom check names, pass and fail
messages, all declared dynamically at run time
• The dynamic values can be set like this:
• Additionally user defined checks that are on hold will no longer be
exported by default
• You can still choose to export on hold checks
by selecting the relevant tick box
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<existing_check_code>
echo "CUSTOM_CHECK_NAME=<customized_check_name>" >> CUSTOMIZE_CHECK_PARAMS
echo "CUSTOM_PASS_MSG=<customized_pass_message>" >> CUSTOMIZE_CHECK_PARAMS
echo "CUSTOM_FAIL_MSG=<customized_fail_message>" >> CUSTOMIZE_CHECK_PARAMS

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What’s new
Beta Support for Oracle Private Cloud Appliance
Automatic start from TFA install
Run against individual PDBs
User defined check enhancements
Database role (primary or standby) now shown in report
Deprecation of EBS health checks
New health checks
1
2
4
3
5
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Database role (primary or standby) now shown in report
• The summary section of report
output now shows the role of each
database (Primary or Standby)
• In the DB Home - Version – Names
section click the number of
databases to expand details and see
the role of each database
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What’s new
Beta Support for Oracle Private Cloud Appliance
Automatic start from TFA install
Run against individual PDBs
User defined check enhancements
Database role (primary or standby) now shown in report
Deprecation of EBS health checks
New health checks
1
2
4
3
5
6
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Deprecation of EBS health checks
• As of the 18.3.0 release the ORAchk and EXAchk EBS checks feature has
been deprecated
• This means the running of health checks against EBS is no longer being
enhanced, but is still supported until the ORAchk and EXAchk 19.3.0
release (approximately one year).
• In the ORAchk and EXAchk 19.3.0 release the EBS checks feature will be
desupported, meaning Oracle will no longer fix bugs in ORAchk or EXAchk
related to EBS checks and the EBS checking feature will be removed
altogether.
• All EBS health checks can be performed using the EBS Analyzers available at
note: 1545562.1
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What’s new
Beta Support for Oracle Private Cloud Appliance
Automatic start from TFA install
Run against individual PDBs
User defined check enhancements
Database role (primary or standby) now shown in report
Deprecation of EBS health checks
New health checks
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• New Oracle Stack Health Checks
– Including checks for several new Exadata critical issues
– For details of the new checks see:
• ORAchk Health Check Catalog
• EXAchk Health Check Catalog
– The Health Check Catalog is also contained within the download
New Oracle Stack Health Checks

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More Info:
ORAchk: Doc 1268927.2 EXAchk: Doc 1070954.1
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