Side effect of ExaWatcher workaround for LSOF check
While analysing the problem with ExaWatcher not being able to start, I found quite nasty side effect of a workaround implemented in recent versions of this useful tool. In fact, you will hit it only on Exadata X7 where you had previously implemented another workaround…
Exadata Cloud at Customer: Real-life experiences
Today again very short post, just pointing to my recent article inside new issue of UKOUG magazine called #PTK (former Oracle Scene): Exadata Cloud at Customer: Real-life experiences. Enjoy! Advertisements
ExaCC: what to do if dbaas_diag_tool.pl fails
When you open Service Request related to problems on your Exadata Cloud at Customer (or other Oracle Cloud environments), very often you’ll be asked to upload diagnostic data, which can be easily gathered by running /var/opt/oracle/misc/dbaas_diag_tool.pl. If it works… In my case it failed, with…
New version of set_exadata_passwords.sh
A new version of set_exadata_passwords.sh is available on GitHub. With new options and a bugfix for infiniband switches.The new version is now able to change the password only on one kind of component i.e. db nodes. I wrote about a problem with chpasswd on infiniband…
chpasswd not working after upgrade
After the upgrade of a infiniband switch from version 2.1.5-1 to 2.2.6-2 my script set_exadata_passwords.sh was not working anymore. It can’t change the password of the infiniband switches because the command chpasswd threw the following error: In the blog I’ll explain why it’s not working,…