5 Validating and Troubleshooting Oracle Database Appliance

This chapter contains information about how to validate changes and troubleshoot Oracle Database Appliance problems.

Topics:

• Oracle Database Appliance Diagnostics and Validation
  Use oakcli validate to check your Oracle Database Appliance configuration, and if necessary, to provide information to Oracle Support Services.
• Oracle Database Appliance Configuration Error Messages
  If you encounter errors while configuring Oracle Database Appliance, then review the following messages and actions:
• Preparing Log Files for Oracle Support Services
  If necessary, use the command oakcli manage diagcollect to collect diagnostic files to send to Oracle Support Services.
• Additional Troubleshooting Tools and Commands
  This section describes additional tools and commands for diagnosing and troubleshooting problems with Oracle Database Appliance.
• Oracle Database Appliance Hardware Monitoring Tool
  The Oracle Database Appliance Hardware Monitoring Tool displays the status of different hardware components in Oracle Database Appliance server nodes.