Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Conventions

1 Introduction to Exachk for Exalogic

• 1.1 Purpose and Scope of Exachk
• 1.2 Supported Platforms
• 1.3 Known Issues

2 Installing and Upgrading Exachk for Exalogic

• 2.1 Prerequisites
  • 2.1.1 Prerequisites for Installing Exachk
  • 2.1.2 Prerequisite for Viewing the Exachk HTML Report in a Web Browser
• 2.2 Installing Exachk
• 2.3 Upgrading Exachk

3 Running Exachk for Exalogic: Basic Usage

• 3.1 Usage Recommendations
• 3.2 Performing Health Checks for the Exalogic Infrastructure
  • 3.2.1 Prerequisites for Performing Health Checks for the Exalogic Infrastructure
  • 3.2.2 Running Exachk for Physical Racks
  • 3.2.3 Running Exachk for Virtual Racks
  • 3.2.4 Running Exachk for Hybrid Racks
• 3.3 Performing Health Checks for Guest vServers
  • 3.3.1 Prerequisites
  • 3.3.2 Additional Prerequisites for STIG-hardened vServers
  • 3.3.3 Running Exachk for vServers that are not STIG-hardened
  • 3.3.4 Running Exachk for STIG-hardened vServers
• 3.4 About the Exachk Health-Check Process

4 Running Exachk for Exalogic: Advanced Usage

• 4.1 Setting Environment Variables
  • 4.1.1 Setting Environment Variables for Runtime Command Timeouts
  • 4.1.2 Setting Environment Variables for Local Issues
• 4.2 Exachk Command Options
• 4.3 Running Exachk in Silent Mode
• 4.4 Overriding Discovered Component Addresses

5 Using the Exachk Output

• 5.1 Output of Exachk
• 5.2 Reading and Interpreting the Exachk HTML Report
  • 5.2.1 Exalogic Rack Summary
  • 5.2.2 Findings Needing Attention
  • 5.2.3 Findings Passed
  • 5.2.4 System-Wide Firmware and Software Versions
  • 5.2.5 Skipped Nodes
• 5.3 Comparing Health-Check Results in Two Exachk HTML Reports
• 5.4 Removing Checks from the Exachk HTML Report
• 5.5 Comparing Component Versions in Two Exachk Collections

6 Troubleshooting Exachk for Exalogic

• 6.1 Potential Problems
  • 6.1.1 Runtime Command Timeouts
  • 6.1.2 Issues With the Local Environment Settings
• 6.2 Getting Support for Exachk