1.2.1 Introduction to Oracle ORAchk and Oracle EXAchk

Oracle ORAchk and Oracle EXAchk provide a lightweight and non-intrusive health check framework for the Oracle stack of software and hardware components.

Oracle ORAchk and Oracle EXAchk:

  • Automates risk identification and proactive notification before your business is impacted

  • Runs health checks based on critical and reoccurring problems

  • Presents high-level reports about your system health risks and vulnerabilities to known issues

  • Enables you to drill-down specific problems and understand their resolutions

  • Enables you to schedule recurring health checks at regular intervals

  • Sends email notifications and diff reports while running in daemon mode

  • Integrates the findings into Oracle Health Check Collections Manager and other tools of your choice

  • Runs in your environment with no need to send anything to Oracle

You have access to Oracle ORAchk and Oracle EXAchk as a value add-on to your existing support contract. There is no additional fee or license required to run Oracle ORAchk and Oracle EXAchk.

Use Oracle EXAchk for Oracle Engineered Systems except for Oracle Database Appliance. For all other systems, use Oracle ORAchk.

Run health checks for Oracle products using the command-line options.