4.5 Oracle Exadata System Software Validation Tests and Utilities

You can use a variety of commands and utilities to validate the Oracle Exadata System Software and hardware configurations.

• Summary of Software and Firmware Components on Oracle Exadata Storage Servers
  The imageinfo command located in the /usr/local/bin/ directory provides a summary of release and status of the software and firmware components on Oracle Exadata Storage Servers.
• Oracle Exadata Storage Server Image History
  The imagehistory command lists the version history for Oracle Exadata Storage Server.
• Validation of the State and Health of the System
  The validation framework runs different tests under certain conditions, such as on first boot after recovery of an Oracle Exadata Storage Server using the rescue and recovery functionality of the CELLBOOT USB flash drive, or when patching an Oracle Exadata Storage Server.