4.2 Starting the OEDACLI Utility

Starting with August 2017 Release of Oracle Exadata Deployment Assistant (OEDA), a command-line utility — oedacli — can be used for various routine tasks on Exadata.

Prerequisites

To use oedacli, you must meet the following requirements:

• Download the August 2017 release or later of OEDA. The August 2017 release of OEDA is only supported on Oracle Linux.

• Have the original OEDA configuration XML file used for deployment

• Use the default password on the nodes in the cluster (for the root, oracle and grid users)

Note:

If your environment does not use the default passwords for the specified users, then refer to My Oracle Support Doc ID 2163751.1.

File Path

The directory that contains the unzipped files from the OEDA download. For example /u01/joc/linux-x64.

Syntax

./oedacli

Usage Notes

To display the help output, use one of the following:

• HELP

• HELP command name

• Displaying Help Output for OEDACLI
  You can display syntax help for the OEDACLI utility using the HELP command.
• Displaying Help Output for an OEDACLI Command
  This example shows the help output listing the OEDACLI ALTER DATABASE command.