Oracle - RDA (Remote Diagnostic Agent)

About

RDA (Remote Diagnostic Agent) is:

• a set of command line, diagnostic and data collection scripts
• used to gather detailed diagnostic information about an oracle environment

and collect only:

• data for Oracle Support (a security filter is provided if required)

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Installation

From Remote Diagnostic Agent (RDA) - OBIEE 11g (Doc ID 1367015.1)

• Download it. See note 314422.1
• Unzip it in the installation Directory (For OBIEE11G: FMW_HOME/oracle_common/rda)

unzip /tmp/rda/p21769913_814161213_Linux-x86-64.zip -d $FMW_HOME/oracle_common/

• Checking the installation

cd $FMW_HOME/oracle_common/rda
./rda.sh -cv

...............
Checking the directory [D_RDA_INC] RDA/UI ...
Checking the directory [D_RDA_INC] RDA/Value ...
Checking the directory [D_RDA_INC] RDA/Web ...
Checking the directory [D_RDA_MSG] charset ...
Checking the directory [D_RDA_MSG] desc ...
Checking the directory [D_RDA_MSG] en ...
Checking the directory [D_RDA_MSG] fr ...
Checking the directory [D_RDA_POD] en ...

No issues found

• Init

./rda.sh -S INI

Tool

Modules with the -T mode option:

• diff: Compare system
• em: Runs the enterprise manager tool
• hcve: Execute HCVE tests
• merge: Merges Alert Log and Trace Files
• na: Runs the network Advisor
• ora600: Diagnoses ORA-600 Oracle Internal Errors
• oraddc: Runs the Oracle Database Diagnostic Collector
• root: Collects System Log and Executes Commands as root User
• Secure: Identifies Potential Risks
• Siebel: Collects Siebel Crash Information
• Sos: Collects siga/sosreport/sysreport

Test

Modules with the -T mode option:

• alert: Analyzes alert.log
• cell: Tests Connection to Exadata Cells
• core: Tests Stack Trace Extraction
• db: Tests Local Database Access
• dbi: Test Oracle Database Access Using the database interface
• dts: Daylight Saving Time Toll Box
• env: Test the environment
• event: Extracts Event Log Information
• inv: Tests Oracle Home Inventory
• ocm: Test configuration Manager Discovery Information
• odbc: Test Oracle Database Access Using ODBC
• odi: Displays the current Oracle Data Integrator Module Setup
• sql: Test SQL Settings
• ss: Analyzes System State Dumps
• ssh: Test Remote Connectivity and Operations
• vms: Verifies Current User Environment for VMS