This preface lists changes in Oracle® ORAchk and EXAchk User’s Guide 18.2.0.
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files.By default, Oracle ORAchk and Oracle EXAchk display only the most critical checks in the report output.
The critical checks are those which Oracle judges to have the most severe potential impact.
All other checks are still run and available in the report. You can view them by selecting appropriate option under the control Show checks with the following status.
./orachk -profile oratier1 ./exachk -profile exatier1
Oracle ORAchk and Oracle EXAchk now include full REST support allowing invocation and query over HTTPS.
To facilitate REST support, Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS) is included within the install.
./exachk -ordssetup
command, and then start the daemon using the -ords
option.
./exachk -d start -ords
https://host:7080/ords/tfaml/orachk/start_client
https://host:7080/ords/tfaml/orachk/profile/profile1,profile2
https://host:7080/ords/tfaml/orachk/check/check_id,check_id
Any request returns a job ID that you can use to query the status or to download the result.
https://host:7080/ords/tfaml/orachk/status/job_id
https://host:7080/ords/tfaml/orachk/download/job_id
If you do not wish to use passwordless SSH to connect to remote nodes, Oracle ORAchk and Oracle EXAchk can auto-generate the private key files for the remote nodes.
Prompt for remote node password.
Log in to the remote node, and generate private and public key pair on the remote node.
Copy the contents of public key into the .ssh/authorized_keys
file of remote node and then delete the public key from the remote node.
Copy the private key of remote node into the local node, and use as identity file to make future connections.
Alternatively, you can provide the private key file yourself.
Oracle ORAchk and Oracle EXAchk now support Python 3.6.
Python 3.6 provides better security and performance over the older python versions.
Oracle EXAchk now provides support for Oracle Autonomous Database.
This release includes new health checks for both Oracle ORAchk and Oracle EXAchk including a number of Oracle Exadata critical issues.
The Health Check Catalog is also contained within the download.