1 Introduction to Exachk for Exalogic

This chapter contains the following sections:

• Purpose and Scope of Exachk

• Supported Platforms

• Known Issues

1.1 Purpose and Scope of Exachk

Exachk is a health-check tool that is designed to audit important configuration settings in an Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud machine. Exachk examines the following components:

• Compute nodes

• Storage appliance

• InfiniBand fabric

• Ethernet network

• Exalogic Control vServers (relevant only in virtual configurations)

• Guest vServers (relevant only in virtual configurations)

Exachk audits the following configuration settings:

• Hardware and firmware

• Operating system kernel parameters

• Operating system packages

You must run Exachk for Exalogic in the following conditions:

• After deploying the machine

• Before and after patching or upgrading the infrastructure

• Before and after making any changes in the system configuration

• Before and after any planned maintenance activity

1.2 Supported Platforms

See the My Oracle Support document 1449226.1.

1.3 Known Issues

See the My Oracle Support document 1478378.1.