This document provides an overview of EXAchk, a tool for performing health checks and validating best practices for Exadata Database Machines. It was developed by Oracle to be lightweight, non-intrusive, and provide automated risk identification. The document discusses EXAchk's development methodology, recommended usage including scheduled execution and report review, report structure and features, installation and maintenance, and integration with automated execution via a daemon.
This is a comprehensive presentation for the Oracle Exachk tool which covers automation and how to cover best practices and what options are features are available with the same
This is a comprehensive presentation for the Oracle Exachk tool which covers automation and how to cover best practices and what options are features are available with the same
Oracle Autonomous Health Service- For Protecting Your On-Premise Databases- F...Sandesh Rao
Oracle Autonomous Health Service is a new feature in Oracle Database 19c that supports centralized diagnostic monitoring of your on-premise Oracle RAC database clusters. In this session learn how to free up local cluster resources and improve monitoring efficiency with this centralized service-based solution. Practical tips and best practices for setup are covered along with a demonstration of its responsive browser-based dashboard and triage console. Specific Oracle RAC database, Oracle Automatic Storage Management, and cluster issues are rapidly triaged utilizing the built-in support for Trace File Analyzer and ORAchk/EXAchk collections, Cluster Health Advisor problem diagnosis, Hang Manager and Memory Guard events, and QoS management workload performance metrics.
AUSOUG - Introducing New AI Ops Innovations in Oracle 19c Autonomous Health F...Sandesh Rao
Oracle Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) is Oracle’s Artificial Intelligence Operations platform for autonomous database health management. This session will focus on enhancements to current functionality and new features in 18c and coming in 19c. First successfully introduced in Cluster Health Advisor, and extended to Trace File Analyzer and Hang Manager, Oracle AHF’s applied machine learning technology now enhances additional framework components. You will learn how to utilize these features for determining workload footprint, ongoing monitoring, early detection of anomalies and performance issues, their root causes and corrective actions, prevention of node or database failures, and targeted postmortem analysis enabling quick resolution.
New Features in Oracle ORAchk & EXAchk 12.2.0.1.1Gareth Chapman
Covers new features in the Oracle ORAchk and Oracle EXAchk release 12.2.0.1.1.
- Easier to Use & Upgrade Oracle Health Checks Collection Manager
- More Flexibility for Running Root Privileged Checks
- Support for New Engineered Systems / Platforms / Versions
- Send Email from Compute Node Instead of Storage Cell
- New Health Checks
AUSOUG - NZOUG - Groundbreakers - Jun 2019 - 19 Troubleshooting Tips and Tric...Sandesh Rao
This part of the workshop will focus on 19 troubleshooting tips and tricks for DBA’s covering tools from the Oracle Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) like Trace File Analyzer (TFA) to collect , organize and analyze log data , Exachk and orachk to perform mass best practices analysis and automation , Cluster Health Advisor to debug node evictions and calibrate the framework , OSWatcher and its analysis engine , oratop for pinpointing performance issues and many others to make one feels like a rockstar DBA
15 Troubleshooting Tips and Tricks for database 21c - OGBEMEA KSAOUGSandesh Rao
This session will focus on 15 troubleshooting tips and tricks for DBA’s covering tools from the Oracle Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) like Trace file Analyzer (TFA) to collect , organize and analyze log data , Exachk and orachk to perform mass best practices analysis and automation , Cluster Health Advisor to debug node evictions and calibrate the framework , OSWatcher and its analysis engine , oratop for pinpointing performance issues and many others to make one feel like a rockstar DBA
Troubleshooting Tips and Tricks for Database 19c - EMEA Tour Oct 2019Sandesh Rao
This session will focus on 19 troubleshooting tips and tricks for DBA's covering tools from the Oracle Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) like Trace file Analyzer (TFA) to collect , organize and analyze log data , Exachk and orachk to perform mass best practices analysis and automation , Cluster Health Advisor to debug node evictions and calibrate the framework , OSWatcher and its analysis engine , oratop for pinpointing performance issues and many others to make one feel like a rockstar DBA
LAD - GroundBreakers - Jul 2019 - Using Oracle Autonomous Health Framework to...Sandesh Rao
This session will focus on the best practice use of the Oracle Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) with an emphasis on troubleshooting private cloud database deployments. It will cover the troubleshooting tips and tricks which DBA's need on a daily basis using tools like Trace file Analyzer (TFA) , Exachk (Best Practices) , Cluster Health Advisor.. Additionally, use cases focusing on best practices for targeted diagnosis and rapid recovery to preserve availability will be covered. This will also cover the new troubleshooting tips for Oracle Database 19c
20 Tips and Tricks with the Autonomous Database Sandesh Rao
This session will focus on the Autonomous Database which is Oracle’s latest Cloud product and will provide the latest news on what is happening in this space. Some of the topics covered will be - How do I scale the database , How to use the machine learning notebooks , details on the free tier of the database and how to use it among some of the tips and tricks to give you all the skills you need to use the database for the first time if you have not used it before or to better improve your skills if you’re already a power user this will extend your skills and also educate you on new features of the Autonomous Database
OOW16 - Testing Oracle E-Business Suite Best Practices [CON6713]vasuballa
This session provides an overview of how the Oracle Quality Assurance team tests Oracle E-Business Suite. It covers the main areas that you should consider during functional testing, approaches for new feature and regression testing, how to reduce the test script generation and execution time, experiences on capturing and presenting metrics to showcase the ROI of the testing investment, leveraging automation for testing Oracle E-Business Suite applications, and more.
Oracle Autonomous Health Service- For Protecting Your On-Premise Databases- F...Sandesh Rao
Oracle Autonomous Health Service is a new feature in Oracle Database 19c that supports centralized diagnostic monitoring of your on-premise Oracle RAC database clusters. In this session learn how to free up local cluster resources and improve monitoring efficiency with this centralized service-based solution. Practical tips and best practices for setup are covered along with a demonstration of its responsive browser-based dashboard and triage console. Specific Oracle RAC database, Oracle Automatic Storage Management, and cluster issues are rapidly triaged utilizing the built-in support for Trace File Analyzer and ORAchk/EXAchk collections, Cluster Health Advisor problem diagnosis, Hang Manager and Memory Guard events, and QoS management workload performance metrics.
AUSOUG - Introducing New AI Ops Innovations in Oracle 19c Autonomous Health F...Sandesh Rao
Oracle Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) is Oracle’s Artificial Intelligence Operations platform for autonomous database health management. This session will focus on enhancements to current functionality and new features in 18c and coming in 19c. First successfully introduced in Cluster Health Advisor, and extended to Trace File Analyzer and Hang Manager, Oracle AHF’s applied machine learning technology now enhances additional framework components. You will learn how to utilize these features for determining workload footprint, ongoing monitoring, early detection of anomalies and performance issues, their root causes and corrective actions, prevention of node or database failures, and targeted postmortem analysis enabling quick resolution.
New Features in Oracle ORAchk & EXAchk 12.2.0.1.1Gareth Chapman
Covers new features in the Oracle ORAchk and Oracle EXAchk release 12.2.0.1.1.
- Easier to Use & Upgrade Oracle Health Checks Collection Manager
- More Flexibility for Running Root Privileged Checks
- Support for New Engineered Systems / Platforms / Versions
- Send Email from Compute Node Instead of Storage Cell
- New Health Checks
AUSOUG - NZOUG - Groundbreakers - Jun 2019 - 19 Troubleshooting Tips and Tric...Sandesh Rao
This part of the workshop will focus on 19 troubleshooting tips and tricks for DBA’s covering tools from the Oracle Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) like Trace File Analyzer (TFA) to collect , organize and analyze log data , Exachk and orachk to perform mass best practices analysis and automation , Cluster Health Advisor to debug node evictions and calibrate the framework , OSWatcher and its analysis engine , oratop for pinpointing performance issues and many others to make one feels like a rockstar DBA
15 Troubleshooting Tips and Tricks for database 21c - OGBEMEA KSAOUGSandesh Rao
This session will focus on 15 troubleshooting tips and tricks for DBA’s covering tools from the Oracle Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) like Trace file Analyzer (TFA) to collect , organize and analyze log data , Exachk and orachk to perform mass best practices analysis and automation , Cluster Health Advisor to debug node evictions and calibrate the framework , OSWatcher and its analysis engine , oratop for pinpointing performance issues and many others to make one feel like a rockstar DBA
Troubleshooting Tips and Tricks for Database 19c - EMEA Tour Oct 2019Sandesh Rao
This session will focus on 19 troubleshooting tips and tricks for DBA's covering tools from the Oracle Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) like Trace file Analyzer (TFA) to collect , organize and analyze log data , Exachk and orachk to perform mass best practices analysis and automation , Cluster Health Advisor to debug node evictions and calibrate the framework , OSWatcher and its analysis engine , oratop for pinpointing performance issues and many others to make one feel like a rockstar DBA
LAD - GroundBreakers - Jul 2019 - Using Oracle Autonomous Health Framework to...Sandesh Rao
This session will focus on the best practice use of the Oracle Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) with an emphasis on troubleshooting private cloud database deployments. It will cover the troubleshooting tips and tricks which DBA's need on a daily basis using tools like Trace file Analyzer (TFA) , Exachk (Best Practices) , Cluster Health Advisor.. Additionally, use cases focusing on best practices for targeted diagnosis and rapid recovery to preserve availability will be covered. This will also cover the new troubleshooting tips for Oracle Database 19c
20 Tips and Tricks with the Autonomous Database Sandesh Rao
This session will focus on the Autonomous Database which is Oracle’s latest Cloud product and will provide the latest news on what is happening in this space. Some of the topics covered will be - How do I scale the database , How to use the machine learning notebooks , details on the free tier of the database and how to use it among some of the tips and tricks to give you all the skills you need to use the database for the first time if you have not used it before or to better improve your skills if you’re already a power user this will extend your skills and also educate you on new features of the Autonomous Database
OOW16 - Testing Oracle E-Business Suite Best Practices [CON6713]vasuballa
This session provides an overview of how the Oracle Quality Assurance team tests Oracle E-Business Suite. It covers the main areas that you should consider during functional testing, approaches for new feature and regression testing, how to reduce the test script generation and execution time, experiences on capturing and presenting metrics to showcase the ROI of the testing investment, leveraging automation for testing Oracle E-Business Suite applications, and more.
OOW16 - Maintenance Strategies for Oracle E-Business Suite [CON6725]vasuballa
This session features the best techniques that applications DBAs can use to proactively maintain their Oracle E-Business Suite environment. It starts with a practical approach for defining a preventive maintenance strategy and then moves to detailed descriptions and tips for various tools and approaches to efficiently perform maintenance tasks. Topics include patching shortcuts, distributing worker processes across multiple servers, shared file systems, and avoiding resource bottlenecks. You will leave this session with the tools required for creating a plan to keep your environment healthy and up to date.
#OOW16 - Implement the Best Practice for Oracle Financial Reporting Complianc...Dane Roberts
Learn how to streamline internal controls processes, configure our Financial Reporting Compliance cloud service to automate some of the most difficult and time-consuming parts of the processes, and achieve fastest implementation, minimum effort, and maximum return on investment from Oracle Product Development's process/solution designers Lakshmi Rajamohan and Barry Greenhut. Get more field-proven best practice ideas from Oracle Consulting Managing Practice Lead, Swarnali Bag.
To maximize your Oracle investment and drive innovation, it's important to have a clear understanding of your business goals and how Oracle's technologies can help you achieve them. Start by identifying the Oracle products and services that are most relevant to your needs, and then work with a trusted partner or consultant to develop a comprehensive strategy for implementation and ongoing maintenance.
In this webinar on demand you'll learn how organizations leverage Oracle Cloud support strategies and increase focus on core business processes while boosting end-user satisfaction. We will show some strategies to help you improve response times, leverage the latest functionality, and lower your total cost of ownership. There will be an open Q&A at the end of our session.
Introducing Oracle Advanced Financial Controls Cloud ServiceDane Roberts
This #OOW16 session featured three panelists, Mark Stebelton, Director of Product Management for Oracle’s Risk Management Cloud Services, Kent Spaulding Oracle Software Architect and Stephen D’Arcy, Director PwC. This session included a screenshot demonstration of Oracle’s latest Cloud Services - Advanced Financial Controls - for automating transaction monitoring; discussion of the underlying, award winning analytical engine; panelist Q&A that highlighted high-value use cases, key metrics, thought leadership and anecdotal lesions learned from clients that utilize transaction monitoring.
AHF Insights provides a bird’s-eye view of the entire system with the ability to further drill down for root cause analysis and correlation. It provides the ability to check aspects like configuration, environment topology, metrics, logs, system configuration, system state, anomalies in the operating system, best practices compliance, root cause for issues, and fixes in some of the anomalous cases. Learn how to use this powerful tool to gain better insights into your system—and how to analyze large amounts of data in a short amount of time. This session includes a demo and examples of how you can use AHF Insights in your environment to solve issues faster.
OOW15 - Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control for Managing Oracle E-Busines...vasuballa
This session focuses on all aspects of Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c for monitoring and managing Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2 with Oracle Application Management Suite for Oracle E-Business Suite. Among the topics covered are online patching management; monitoring the technology stack, including Oracle WebLogic Server services; metrics management; Java Virtual Machine diagnostics; configuration comparisons between run and patch editions; provisioning of Oracle E-Business Suite with assemblies; technology stack patch recommendations; customization management; and automated cloning.
Whats new in Autonomous Database in 2022Sandesh Rao
This session covers the new features and happenings in the autonomous database world and will help answer more questions DBAs and Developers will have on the Autonomous Database, from provisioning to backups, troubleshooting, tips and tricks, security and HA. This is a good introduction for on-prem DBAs who want to learn how this works quickly without spending too much time on it. Questions like what does the free tier cover, how do I do backup or if it's automated, how do I manage it, how to scale up and down, how to secure their environment, how to use mtls, how to use tools like SQLDeveloper and SQLModeler, performance tuning all in a quick 45-minute session which might take weeks to pick up reading documentation or spanning several presentations
Oracle Database performance tuning using oratopSandesh Rao
Oratop is a text-based user interface tool for monitoring basic database operations in real-time. This presentation will go into depth on how to use the tool and some example scenarios. It can be used for both RAC and single-instance databases and in combination with top to get a more holistic view of system performance and identify any bottlenecks.
Analysis of Database Issues using AHF and Machine Learning v2 - AOUG2022Sandesh Rao
Oracle Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) is Oracle’s Artificial Intelligence Operations platform for autonomous database health management. This session will focus on enhancements to current functionality and new features in 21c. We will discuss how to use the data which is derived from the Bayesian Net framework of AHF to conduct root cause analysis, telemetry and remediations for issues. You will learn to utilize these features to determine workload footprint, ongoing monitoring, early detection of anomalies and performance issues, their root causes and corrective actions, prevention of node or database failures, and targeted postmortem analysis enabling quick resolution.
Session Highlights:
• Insights into AHF enhancements to current functionality and new features in 21c
• Learn early detection of anomalies and performance issues, their root causes and corrective actions
• Targeted postmortem analysis enabling quick resolution
Analysis of Database Issues using AHF and Machine Learning v2 - SOUGSandesh Rao
Oracle Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) is Oracle’s Artificial Intelligence Operations platform for autonomous database health management. This session will focus on enhancements to current functionality and new features in 21c. We will discuss how to use the data which is derived from the Bayesian Net framework of AHF to conduct root cause analysis, telemetry and remediations for issues. You will learn to utilize these features to determine workload footprint, ongoing monitoring, early detection of anomalies and performance issues, their root causes and corrective actions, prevention of node or database failures, and targeted postmortem analysis enabling quick resolution.
Session Highlights:
• Insights into AHF enhancements to current functionality and new features in 21c
• Learn early detection of anomalies and performance issues, their root causes and corrective actions
• Targeted postmortem analysis enabling quick resolution
Introduction to Machine learning - DBA's to data scientists - Oct 2020 - OGBEmeaSandesh Rao
This session will focus on basics of what Machine Learning is , different types of Machine Learning and Neural Networks , supervised and unsupervised machine learning with examples, AutoML for training models and this ends with an example of how to predict fraud , to determining shopping patterns to Wine picking and different algorithms as an example and also how to predict workload for your databases. We will also use OML in the Autonomous Database cloud to do this. If you are a DBA and want to learn something about machine learning and use the tools to perform your tasks more efficiently and automatically
How to use Exachk effectively to manage Exadata environments OGBEmeaSandesh Rao
Exachk is a tool for helping with best practices with an Exadata Box. This presentation will go through setup , usage , options and how to use it more effectively to be more proactive in fixing issues with an Exadata environment. There are features like baselines , scheduler for ongoing automation , Collection Manager an Apex based interface which is used to determine the common problems , how to setup this dashboard all for free and in under 30 minutes to be a rockstar Exadata DBA
Troubleshooting tips and tricks for Oracle Database Oct 2020Sandesh Rao
This talk presents 15 different tips and tricks using tools to better troubleshoot and debug problems with Database , Oracle RAC and Oracle Clusterware , ASM and how to get the right pieces of data with the least of commands which today most people do manually. This session will cover tools from the Oracle Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) like Trace file Analyzer (TFA) to collect , organize and analyze log data , Exachk and orachk to perform mass best practices analysis and automation , Cluster Health Advisor to debug node evictions and calibrate the framework , OSWatcher and its analysis engine , oratop for pinpointing performance issues and many others to make one feel like a rockstar DBA.
Introduction to Machine Learning - From DBA's to Data Scientists - OGBEMEASandesh Rao
This session will focus on basics of what Machine Learning is , different types of Machine Learning and Neural Networks , supervised and unsupervised machine learning with examples, AutoML for training models and this ends with an example of how to predict fraud , to determining shopping patterns to Wine picking and different algorithms as an example and also how to predict workload for your databases. We will also use OML in the Autonomous Database cloud to do this. If you are a DBA and want to learn something about machine learning and use the tools to perform your tasks more efficiently and automatically
20 tips and tricks with the Autonomous DatabaseSandesh Rao
This covers the top 20 questions most DBA’s , Developers will have on the Autonomous Database from provisioning to backups , troubleshooting , tips and tricks , security and HA . This is a good introduction for on-prem DBA’s who want to learn how this works quickly without spending too much time on it . Questions like what does the free tier cover , how do I do backup or if its automated how do I manage it , how to scale up and down , how to use tools like SQLDeveloper and SQLModeler , endpoints , terraform all in a quick 45 minute session which might take weeks to pickup reading documentation or spanning several presentations
Machine Learning in Autonomous Data WarehouseSandesh Rao
Machine Learning in Autonomous Data Warehouse: One can use Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse for machine learning. There are several ways to do this. This presentation explores these different but related options for performing machine learning. Each of these options enables people with different backgrounds to engage with building machine learning solutions on their data. At the end of the session, you will know which option will work best for you
This is from the Bay area Cloud Computing event https://www.meetup.com/All-Things-Cloud-Computing-Bay-Area/events/271017950/
Introduction to AutoML and Data Science using the Oracle Autonomous Database ...Sandesh Rao
We are entering a new era in the database with the introduction of the Oracle Autonomous Database. AI and Machine Learning are center stage to most projects and assist in making complex decisions which was not possible before. Most data science projects don’t get beyond the data scientist and rarely operationalize their predictive models. there are new toolsets and methods available everyday which make this an extremely dynamic space. There are different categories of users who want to use the algorithms , the toolsets but don't know where to start. Whether you are a data scientist who wants to play with data and build your own models or make use of the database features with the built in models or use the specific AI services within a specific vertical such as Insurance or Healthcare . We will take a glimpse at Oracle's Machine Learning Zeppelin-based notebooks for Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse Cloud to how Oracle uses AIOps and Applied Machine learning for its own operations and the Oracle AI Platform Cloud Service to provided an all rounded view of what Oracle is upto in this space
Introduction to Machine Learning and Data Science using Autonomous Database ...Sandesh Rao
This session will focus on basics of what Machine Learning is , different types of Machine Learning and Neural Networks , supervised and unsupervised machine learning , autoML for training models and this ends with an example of how to predict workloads using Average Active sessions and different algorithms as an example and also how to predict maintenance windows for your databases. We will also use different open source frameworks as well as some of the tools in the Autonomous Database cloud to do this. If you are a DBA and want to learn something about machine learning and use the tools to perform your tasks more efficiently and automaticall
The Machine Learning behind the Autonomous Database ILOUG Feb 2020 Sandesh Rao
Autonomous Database is one of the hottest Oracle products where we have attempted to use Machine Learning for several aspects of the service. We take a view on our current state of ML in the Autonomous Database Cloud and how do we process this data in ADW/ATP with zeppelin notebooks to find anomalies in them to troubleshoot them at a scale of several petabytes a year and conduct AIOps. We will cover some sample notebooks to some use cases we will cover are a Log Anomaly timeline which we reduce significant amounts of logs using semi-supervised machine learning techniques to reduce logs and match them in near real time. Some of the other use cases is to use convolution filters...
Troubleshooting Tips and Tricks for Database 19c ILOUG Feb 2020Sandesh Rao
This session will focus on 19 troubleshooting tips and tricks for DBAs covering tools from the Oracle Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) like Trace file Analyzer (TFA) to collect , organize and analyze log data , Exachk and orachk to perform mass best practices analysis and automation , Cluster Health Advisor to debug node evictions and calibrate the framework , OSWatcher and its analysis engine , oratop for pinpointing performance issues and many others to make one feel like a rockstar DBA