>constraints on what I can do with RDA and one of the
>major ones is that I can't require any third party
>products to be used so, sorry Jared, but there's no
>Perl in RDA's future.
And I was just getting ready to ask. :)
Ya know, if you used Perl, you could even
make this work on Windoze.
Jared
"A. Bardeen"
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OK, John, you've let the cat out of the bag so I might
as well stop trying to remain incognito ;)
Yes, indeed I did package RDA although you can tell
that my Unix skills aren't that great or I would have
chosen a less revealing directory structure.
RDA is one of the projects I'll be managing in my new
role. I hope to keep what's left of my brain and
avoid becoming a PHM, but I'm sure I can count on
y'all to point out any signs that I'm becoming a
damager ;)
To address some of the issues John brought up about
RDA...
> (one little
> script that sets up and one *large* script that
> actually does the stuff)
That's the current incarnation, but it will be
changing in the next few months. We intend to make it
more modular so that other areas in Oracle Support can
add plug-ins to capture information specific to their
needs. We also intend to have the setup portion allow
users to skip certain areas of the report if they're
not wanted or needed.
> Anyone been asked to run this yet?
Anyone logging an iTar related to the Oracle Server
product should automatically be requested to provide
RDA output as part of the iTar logging process. You
may also be requested to provide it by the analyst
assigned to your iTar. You are, of course, welcome to
run RDA for your own benefit as well.
Obviously it's not relevant for all types of tars
(e.g. RTFM tars), but it does provide a nice overview
of the server environment for many other types of
tars.
> Will Oracle Support listen to us if we request
> enhancements?
Absolutely!! Just please don't use an iTar for your
forum. Instead send feedback (positive and negative)
to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Currently I maintain that email account so I'll be the
one responding. Try not to be too brutal ;)
I will warn you now that I won't be able to please
everyone so I'm not stupid enough to try. I have
constraints on what I can do with RDA and one of the
major ones is that I can't require any third party
products to be used so, sorry Jared, but there's no
Perl in RDA's future.
For those of you VMS fans, you'll be happy to know
that a version of RDA for VMS is in the works and we
hope to have that released by the end of January 2002.
RDA is available only via MetaLink:
Note: 139597.1 "Remote Diagnostic Agent (RDA) for
Unix"
Note: 153091.1 "Remote Diagnostic Agent (RDA) for
Windows"
For those of you who may have used RDA in the past,
version 2.71 was just released for Unix last week. We
will have new versions for both Unix and NT/Win2K at
the end of the month.
There will probably be new versions every month for
the next few months, so be sure to check the above
notes for the most recent version.
While I have your attention, feel free to send
feedback regarding the ORA-600 Lookup tool to me as
well (use [EMAIL PROTECTED]).
Note: 153788.1 "ORA-600 Lookup"
Thanks,
-- Anita
--- John Kanagaraj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was looking at the recently released RDA (Remote
> Diagnostic Agent) from
> Oracle Support. Basically, this consists of a couple
> of scripts (one little
> script that sets up and one *large* script that
> actually does the stuff)
> that probes a lot of details (both OS and database)
> and writes this out as
> both Text and Html files. These can then be uploaded
> to Oracle Support for
> analysis in support of an iTAR.
>
> > tar tvf rda.tar
> -rw-r--r-- abardeen/dba 94 2001-08-22 02:48
> false.gif
> -rw-r--r-- abardeen/dba 5841 2001-12-11 13:29
> instructions.html
> -rwxr--r-- abardeen/dba 179187 2001-12-10 06:49
> rda.sh <--- Big script
> -rwxr-xr-- abardeen/dba 11407 2001-11-13 09:58
> setup.sh <--- Small
> script
> -rw-r--r-- abardeen/dba 2575 2001-12-07 09:27
> setup.txt.orig
> -rw-r--r-- abardeen/dba 91 2001-08-22 02:48
> true.gif
>
> If you haven't caught it by now, it seems that our
> very own Anita Bardeen
> packaged it as can be seen from the 'tar' listing
> above. Originally, this
> seems to have come out of that very excellent group
> - the Centre Of
> Excellence... It is even intelligent enough to
> recognize APPS Databases,
> although it does seem to lack features to skip Web
> based probes during
> setup.
>
> Now to the Questions: Anyone been asked to run this
> yet? Any comments from
> the Gurus? Will Oracle Support listen to us if we
> request enhancements?
>
> Thanks,
> John Kanagaraj
> Oracle Applications DBA
> DBSoft Inc
> (W): 408-970-7002
>
> Wanna know the reason for the season? Click on
> 'http://www.needhim.org'
>
> ** The opinions and statements above are entirely my
> own and not
> those of my employer or clients **
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