AHF Release 23.10

• Using the exadcli Utility to Collect Cell Metric Data for Guest VMs (domUs)
  exadcli enables you to issue an ExaCLI command to be run on multiple remote nodes. Remote nodes are referenced by their host name or IP address.
• Option to Set a Custom Port to Upload Diagnostics
  Starting with AHF 23.10, you can configure a custom port while setting ahfctl setupload parameters.
• Option to Include Profiles While Running AHF Compliance Checks
  Starting with AHF 23.10, you can use -includeprofile to specify a comma-delimited list of profiles to add profile specific checks to the existing checks list.
• AHF Insights Support for Larger Collection Intervals
  Starting with 23.10, you can generate Insights report for time period of 12 hours.
• AHF Insights User Experience Improvement
  Report tab in the Operating System Issues section has been revamped to provide a seemless experience.
• Terminal Releases of AHF for Old Platforms
  Several old Operating Systems are approaching their end of life, as a result AHF is announcing terminal releases.
• New GoldenGate Diagnostic Collection Component
  AHF diagcollect now includes a new component for GoldenGate.
• New Oracle Orachk and Oracle Exachk Best Practice Checks
  Release 23.10 includes the following new Oracle Orachk and Oracle Exachk best practice checks.

Using the exadcli Utility to Collect Cell Metric Data for Guest VMs (domUs)

exadcli enables you to issue an ExaCLI command to be run on multiple remote nodes. Remote nodes are referenced by their host name or IP address.

For more information, see Using the exadcli Utility to Collect Cell Metric Data for Guest VMs (domUs).

Option to Set a Custom Port to Upload Diagnostics

Starting with AHF 23.10, you can configure a custom port while setting ahfctl setupload parameters.

If you do not specify a port, then 443 is used by default. You can set a port number in the range of 0 - 65353.

Option to Include Profiles While Running AHF Compliance Checks

Starting with AHF 23.10, you can use -includeprofile to specify a comma-delimited list of profiles to add profile specific checks to the existing checks list.

ahfctl compliance -includeprofile profile1, profile2...

orachk -includeprofile profile1, profile2...

exachk -includeprofile profile1, profile2...

Note:

You cannot:

• use -includeprofile and -profile options together
• use -includeprofile and -excludeprofile options together

Use the -profile option to specify a comma-delimited list of profiles to run only the checks in the specified profiles.

Use the -excludeprofile option to specify a comma-delimited list of profiles to exclude from the compliance check run.

AHF Insights Support for Larger Collection Intervals

Starting with 23.10, you can generate Insights report for time period of 12 hours.

In addition, improvements have been made to the Operating System Issues section. You will now be able to view the data in problematic time ranges in plots with more data points.

The problematic time ranges will have the following reading intervals:

• 5 seconds for ranges less than 1 minute
• 30 seconds for ranges more than 1 minute

The number of data points for plots under Operating System Issues section are dynamic for optimal time taken to generate report.

The data points for time ranges greater than 4 hours are reduced and have the following reading intervals:

• 1 minute for intervals up to 4 hours
• 3 minutes for intervals greater than 4 hours and less than 12 hours
• 5 minutes for intervals greater than 12 hours.

AHF Insights User Experience Improvement

Report tab in the Operating System Issues section has been revamped to provide a seemless experience.

With Report view, explore the findings in a drop-down fashion with a full widescreen view.

You can:

• view the Event information in a subplot within the Summary Timeline Gantt Chart
• explore the top ranked metrics in tables under a problem finding in a visual format
• view the metrics associated with the prblem finding in a visual format
• drill down into the detailed state of the system at a specific problematic point in time under 'Problematic Snapshots' section. Problem specific system snapshots are organized into dropdowns ordered by problem timestamp

Terminal Releases of AHF for Old Platforms

Several old Operating Systems are approaching their end of life, as a result AHF is announcing terminal releases.

For more information, see Unsupported platforms.

New GoldenGate Diagnostic Collection Component

AHF diagcollect now includes a new component for GoldenGate.

AHF has a long-standing ability to collect Golden Gate diagnostics via an SRDC (Service Request Data Collection). However, the Golden Gate SRDC collected logs irrespective of the timeframe and copied all the files matching the file pattern. This resulted in collecting extra logs, which were not required for diagnostics.

Golden Gate has now been added as a new diagcollect component, allowing AHF to discover the Golden Gate directories, inventory the files and store it in BDB. This enables collections based on timeframe which results in only necessary log collection and faster, smaller diagnostic collections.

To use the goldengate component, run:

tfactl diagcollect -goldengate -last 1h -noclassify

New Oracle Orachk and Oracle Exachk Best Practice Checks

Release 23.10 includes the following new Oracle Orachk and Oracle Exachk best practice checks.

Best Practice Checks Common to Both Oracle Orachk and Oracle Exachk

Oracle Orachk Specific Best Practice Checks

Oracle Exachk Specific Best Practice Checks

• Oracle High Availability Services Automatic Startup Configuration
• CHECK FOR EXADATA CRITICAL ISSUE EX80
• CHECK FOR EXADATA CRITICAL ISSUE EX81
• CHECK FOR EXADATA CRITICAL ISSUE EX82
• CHECK FOR EXADATA CRITICAL ISSUE DB52
• Verify number of inactive patches for database home
• Verify number of inactive patches for Grid Infrastructure home

All checks can be explored in more detail via the Health Check Catalogs: