Oracle Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) 23.4 Release Notes Summary

  • Insights support expands beyond Exadata: AHF Insights now supports Oracle Database Appliance and generic Oracle RAC systems, providing topology, configuration, compliance, timeline, anomaly, and root-cause views.
  • System-change tracking: tfactl changes can report current and previous values for database parameters, Oracle home installs and patches, OS parameters, and OS patches. Output supports JSON and per-node filtering for up to 30 days.
  • JSON arguments for tfactl: TFA commands can accept a JSON payload of options, allowing OneView and cloud tooling to pass new collection parameters without requiring agent-code changes.
  • Collection-status filtering: tfactl print collections -status can list failed, queued, or completed diagnostic collections.
  • Orachk JSON email attachments: Orachk can email JSON results instead of HTML, supporting manual and scheduled runs via -attachment_type json or RAT_ATTACHMENT_TYPE=json.
  • Unified CLI enhancements: New functionality includes checking the latest MRP level, selecting clusters for AHF Balance fleet analysis, and refreshing Insights reports with current data.
  • New best-practice checks: Orachk and Exachk add AHF Balance CPU-contention and oversubscription checks; Orachk checks listener/Clusterware configuration; Exachk checks KMS database-encryption configuration and CRS/cloud instance-name consistency.