OracLog

ADRCI

Mike Culp — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:24:09 +0000

The ADR Command Interpreter (ADRCI) is a command-line tool that you use to manage Oracle Database diagnostic data. ADRCI is a command-line tool that is part of the fault diagnosability infrastructure introduced in Oracle Database Release 11g.

ADRCI enables:

Viewing diagnostic data within the Automatic Diagnostic Repository (ADR).
Viewing Health Monitor reports.
Packaging of incident and problem information into a zip file for transmission to Oracle Support.

Diagnostic data includes incident and problem descriptions, trace files, dumps, health monitor reports, alert log entries, and more.

ADRCI has a rich command set, and can be used in interactive mode or within scripts. In addition, ADRCI can execute scripts of ADRCI commands in the same way that SQL*Plus executes scripts of SQL and PL/SQL commands.

ADR data is secured by operating system permissions on the ADR directories, hence there is no need to log in to ADRCI.

To query the ADRCI for info.

Name                                      Null?    Type
 ----------------------------------------- -------- ----------------------------
 INST_ID                                            NUMBER
 NAME                                               VARCHAR2(64)
 VALUE                                              VARCHAR2(512)

set linesize 125
col value format a80
SELECT * FROM gv$diag_info;

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Oracle Licensing for Standby and Data Guard

Mike Culp — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:02:26 +0000

Licensing for Standby and Data Guard is a very misunderstood and sketchy subject.
I’ve worked for companies that were charged for the standby server, and sometimes obtained
huge discounts. It depends on how close to May 31st you are. If the software is running on the
server you must license it.

BTW here is a link to a couple of Oracle’s licensing docs:

Oracle’s Data Recovery Licensing Guidelines Doc

Oracle’s Licensing Guidelines Doc

APEX Development Notes

Mike Culp — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:27:37 +0000

Over the years I have been very involved in the development of various APEX applications. This area of my blog is to talk about the type of things that I am doing that might be interesting general features and techniques of APEX. Feel free to send me anything you feel is relevant to what I am talking about in here.

CentOS 5.6, Oracle11gR2, and VMware Player 3.0

Mike Culp — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:24:15 +0000

I have recently done an install of CentOS 5.4 and Oracle11gR2, here are some of my notes. First of all since I wanted to be mobile I decided to install this on my laptop and use VMware Player 3.0 to make my virtuals. Then I went to www.centos.org to get the latest release of the .ISOs and the DVD. When installing Oracle11gR2 pay attention to the packages that need to be installed, as missing some of these will fail the install.

yum install ncompress

in order to install the uncompress that doesn’t get installed with CentOS 5.4

In order to make sure APEX gets installed simply go to the APEX directory under the ORACLE_HOME and run apexins.sql. This will install the APEX environment into your 11.2 database. This script will take several parameters which include tablespaces in which to install the product. You can simply edit the script to see at the top of the script which parameters are needed. You will also need to choose a port for the gateway to run on.

Once this occurs you can now begin the process of setting up APEX internally.

Sun Solaris Downloads

Mike Culp — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:17:49 +0000

http://www.sun.com/download/index.jsp?cat=Operating%20Systems&tab=3&subcat=Solaris%20Operating%20Systems

OCFS2

Mike Culp — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 12:38:27 +0000

Here is the low down on the OCFS2

http://www.oracle.com/technologies/linux/ocfs2.html

http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/

Oracle Enterprise Linux Notes

Mike Culp — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:43:01 +0000

In the last couple of years I have noticed a trend toward linux in a lot of shops, that have been running a lot of “paid-for” support OSs. I think one of the biggest benefits to going to one of these Linux distros is the flexibility and the prevalence of information globally.

I will be detailing some of the installation notes as it relates to Linux and Oracle over the coming weeks.

Installation notes concerning 11g and Oracle Enterprise Linux OEL (Red Hat 5.6)

Oracle 11g New Features