Oracle Tools + Autonomous Health Framework (AHF)

Note: This article is a guidebook for Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) beginners.
Tags: AHF, RDA, ORAchk, EXAChk, TFA, database diagnosis, database health check
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Related tools: Oracle’s commonly used diagnostic tools include: AHF, RDA, ORAchk, EXAChk, TFA.
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★ Related articles
※ Autonomous Health Framework (AHF)-Including TFA and ORAchk/EXAChk (Doc ID 2550798.1)
※ Oracle Tools + Oracle Remote Diagnostic Agent (RDA)
※ Use Oracle's official inspection tool ORAchk to inspect the database

★ Glossary

The Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) toolkit contains a variety of diagnostic tools commonly used by Oracle for Oracle health checks and other purposes

★ Tools and introductions included in AHF (version 20.4) (English)

✔ TFA

Primary diagnostic collection tool, with Database Support Tools Bundle

✔ ORAchk / EXAchk

Oracle Stack Compliance Checks

✔ procwatcher

Automate & capture database performance diagnostics & session level hangs

See 459694.1 for more details.

✔ events

Reports warnings and errors seen in the logs

✔ managelogs

Shows disk space usage and purges ADR log and trace files

✔ alertsummary

Provides summary of events for one or more database or ASM alert files from all nodes

✔ ls / dir

Lists all files TFA knows about for a given file name pattern across all nodes

✔ summary

High level summary of the configuration

✔ vi / notepad

Open alert or trace files for viewing a given database and file name pattern in the vi editor

✔ tail

Run a tail on an alert or trace files for a given database and file name pattern

✔ param

Show all database and OS parameters that match a specified pattern

✔ oswatcher

Collect and archive OS metrics, useful for instance / node evictions & performance Issues.

See 301137.1 for more details.

✔ oratop

Near real-time database monitoring

See 1500864.1 for more details.

✔ pstack

Generate process stack for specified processes across all nodes

✔ grep / findstr

Search alert or trace files with a given database and file name pattern, for a search string

✔ dbglevel

Set and unset multiple CRS trace levels with one command

✔ history

Show the shell history for the tfactl shell

✔ changes

Report any noted changes in the system setup over a given time period. This includes database a parameters, OS parameters, patches applied etc

✔ calog

Reports major events from the Cluster Event log

✔ ps / tasklist

Finds processes

✔ triage

Summarize oswatcher/exawatcher data

★ MOS details (Doc ID 2550798.1)

★ Install AHF

[root@rac1 ahf]# ./ahf_setup

AHF Installer for Platform Linux Architecture x86_64

AHF Installation Log : /tmp/ahf_install_204000_5324_2020_12_19-22_04_40.log

Starting Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) Installation

AHF Version: 20.4.0 Build Date: 202012141017

Default AHF Location : /opt/oracle.ahf

Do you want to install AHF at [/opt/oracle.ahf] ? [Y]|N : n

Please Enter new AHF Location : /ahf

AHF Location : /ahf/oracle.ahf

AHF Data Directory stores diagnostic collections and metadata.
AHF Data Directory requires at least 5GB (Recommended 10GB) of free space.

Choose Data Directory from below options :

1. /u01/app/grid [Free Space : 48763 MB]
2. /ahf/oracle.ahf [Free Space : 48763 MB]
3. Enter a different Location

Choose Option [1 - 3] : 2

AHF Data Directory : /ahf/oracle.ahf/data

Do you want to add AHF Notification Email IDs ? [Y]|N : n

AHF will also be installed/upgraded on these Cluster Nodes :

1. rac2

The AHF Location and AHF Data Directory must exist on the above nodes
AHF Location : /ahf/oracle.ahf
AHF Data Directory : /ahf/oracle.ahf/data

Do you want to install/upgrade AHF on Cluster Nodes ? [Y]|N : y

Extracting AHF to /ahf/oracle.ahf

Configuring TFA Services

Discovering Nodes and Oracle Resources

Not generating certificates as GI discovered

Starting TFA Services

.------------------------------------------------------------------------.
| Host | Status of TFA | PID | Port | Version | Build ID |
+------+---------------+------+------+------------+----------------------+
| rac1 | RUNNING | 6292 | 5000 | 20.4.0.0.0 | 20400020201214101756 |
'------+---------------+------+------+------------+----------------------'

Running TFA Inventory...

Adding default users to TFA Access list...

Starting orachk scheduler from AHF ...

AHF install completed on rac1

Installing AHF on Remote Nodes :

AHF will be installed on rac2, Please wait.

AHF will prompt twice to install/upgrade per Remote Node. So total 2 prompts

Do you want to continue Y|[N] : Y

AHF will continue with Installing on remote nodes

Installing AHF on rac2 :

[rac2] Copying AHF Installer
root@rac2's password:

[rac2] Running AHF Installer
root@rac2's password:

AHF binaries are available in /ahf/oracle.ahf/bin

AHF is successfully installed

Moving /tmp/ahf_install_204000_5324_2020_12_19-22_04_40.log to /ahf/oracle.ahf/data/rac1/diag/ahf/

[root@rac1 ahf]#

★ A database health report case generated after executing AHF's orachk-Oracle RAC Assessment Report

★ The products that support Oracle Autonomous Health Framework are listed below

1. Oracle Engineered Systems
  1. Oracle Big Data Appliance
  2. Oracle Exadata Database Machine Version 2 and later
  3. Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance
  4. Oracle Private Cloud Appliance
2. Oracle Database Appliance
3. Oracle ASR
4. Oracle Database
  1. Single-instance Oracle Database
  2. Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle RAC
  3. Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) validation
  4. Upgrade Readiness validation
  5. Oracle GoldenGate
  6. Application Continuity
5. Enterprise Manager Cloud Control (12c only)
  1. Management Repository
  2. Management Agents
  3. Oracle Management Service (OMS), version 12.1.0.1 and later on Linux only
6. Oracle Identity and Access Management
  1. Oracle Identity Manager (11.1.2.2.x and 11.1.2.3.x)
  2. Oracle Access Manager (11.1.2.2.x and 11.1.2.3.x)
  3. Oracle Unified Directory (11.1.2.2.x and 11.1.2.3.x)
7. Oracle Hardware Systems
  1. Oracle Solaris
  2. Oracle Solaris Cluster
  3. Oracle Systems configuration for Oracle Middleware and Oracle Applications
  4. Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance
  5. Oracle Virtual Networking
8. Oracle Siebel CRM
  1. Oracle Siebel verification of the database configuration for stability, best practices, and performance optimization (Siebel 8.1.1.11 connecting to Oracle Database 11.2.0.4.)
9. Oracle PeopleSoft
  1. Oracle PeopleSoft verification of database best practices

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