The document summarizes new features in Oracle ORAchk and EXAchk 19.2, including support for Oracle Exadata 19.2, integration with the Oracle Cluster Verification Utility, new user-defined profiles, and new health checks specific to Oracle Direct Attached (ODA) hardware and platforms.

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ORAchk & EXAchk
What’s New in 19.2
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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
Support for Oracle Exadata 19.2
Integration with Oracle Cluster Verification Utility
User defined profiles
New health checks include specifically for ODA hardware & platform
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What’s new
Support for Oracle Exadata 19.2
Integration with Oracle Cluster Verification Utility
User defined profiles
New health checks include specifically for ODA hardware & platform
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Support for Oracle Exadata 19.2
• This release adds EXAchk support for the latest:
– Exadata release 19.2

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What’s new
Support for Oracle Exadata 19.2
Integration with Oracle Cluster Verification Utility
User defined profiles
New health checks include specifically for ODA hardware & platform
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• To use a specific CVU home:
• To only run CVU checks:
• To include CVU checks:
(only required for EXAchk)
Integration with CVU
• CVU checks are run by default for ORAchk and
optionally for EXAchk
• CVU checks are only run when a CVU version of
11.2.0.4 or greater if found
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-cvuhome <cvu_home>
-cvuonly
-includecvu

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What’s new
Support for Oracle Exadata 19.2
Integration with Oracle Cluster Verification Utility
User defined profiles
New health checks include specifically for ODA hardware & platform
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User defined profiles
• Create user defined profiles by providing a comma separated list of check
ids:
• Once a user defined profile has been created, it can be modified:
– This list of check_ids can contain both new checks to be added and existing checks to
be removed, ORAchk/EXAchk will add/remove as necessary
• Delete a user defined profile:
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-createprofile <profile_name> <check_ids>
-modifyprofile <profile_name> <check_ids>
-deleteprofile <profile_name>

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What’s new
Support for Oracle Exadata 19.2
Integration with Oracle Cluster Verification Utility
User defined profiles
New health checks include specifically for ODA hardware & platform
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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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