Oracle Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) 24.2 Release Notes Summary

  • Expanded cleanup controls: tfactl purge gains additional options for removing collections and component log files, helping manage AHF repository space.
  • Single-archive diagnostic collections: The new tfactl diagcollect -singlearchive option combines remote-node diagnostic ZIP files into one archive on the initiating node, simplifying transfer and review.
  • Unified CLI expansion: AHF adds new options to ahf, ahf configuration, and ahf software, plus the new ahf data command category.
  • Broader diagnostic collection coverage: The -os collection can now include Exadata Netdiag output files, and the new avs SRDC collects Oracle Audit Vault Server logs.
  • Insights included by default: Diagnostic collections now contain an Insights-report sub-ZIP, making system findings easier to access. Insights also gains support for single-instance Linux systems.
  • ORA-00600 troubleshooting: Oracle adds guidance for using AHF to collect diagnostics and investigate ORA-00600 internal errors.
  • TFA collection troubleshooting: The release includes a recovery option for cases where TFA fails to collect component diagnostic traces such as CRS, database, or ASM traces.
  • Security dependency updates: Python and Java third-party libraries—including pip, urllib3, Jackson, Jinja2, and OpenSSL—were updated to remediate known CVEs.