12.8 Deprecated Legacy Oracle ORAchk and Oracle EXAchk Scheduler Commands in 22.2

Starting with the 22.2 release, commands to run the Oracle ORAchk or Oracle EXAchk scheduler without the Oracle Trace File Analyzer daemon are deprecated and will be removed in a future release.

Deprecated Legacy Oracle ORAchk and Oracle EXAchk Scheduler Commands:

• -switch_scheduler
• -use_legacy_scheduler
• -xmlstart_scheduler
• -xmlstart_scheduler_debug

Running the aforementioned commands would terminate with a deprecation notice. For example:

orachk -use_legacy_scheduler
Option '-use_legacy_scheduler' is deprecated and no longger supported.
Please run 'orachk -h' to see a list of available options

orachk -switch_scheduler
Option '-switch_scheduler' is deprecated and no longger supported.
Please run 'orachk -h' to see a list of available options

Changes also include the replacement of Oracle ORAchk/EXAchk daemon commands.

Table 12-1 Substituted Oracle ORAchk and EXAchk Daemon Commands

Deprecated Oracle ORAchk and EXAchk Daemon Commands	Replaced With
exachk -d start orachk -d start	exachk -autostart orachk -autostart
exachk -d start_debug orachk -d start_debug
exachk -initsetup orachk -initsetup
exachk -initdebugsetup orachk -initdebugsetup
exachk -d stop orachk -d stop	exachk -autostop orachk -autostop
exachk -d stop_client orachk -d stop_client
exachk -initrmsetup orachk -initrmsetup
exachk -d info orachk -d info	exachk -autostatus orachk -autostatus
exachk -d status orachk -d status
exachk -d nextautorun orachk -d nextautorun
exachk -initcheck orachk -initcheck

Running obsolete daemon commands will print a deprecation notice and an INFO message suggesting that you run equivalent commands. Then orachk and exachk will execute the respective equivalent commands. For example:

orachk -d start
'orachk -d start' is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please start using 'orachk -autostart' instead.
Running 'orachk -autostart' for this operation. Run 'orachk -autostart -h' for further help.

orachk -initrmsetup
'orachk -initrmsetup' is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please start using 'orachk -autostop' instead.
Running 'orachk -autostop' for this operation. Run 'orachk -autostop -h' for further help.

orachk -d info
'orachk -d info' is deprecated and will be removed in a future release. Please start using 'orachk -autostatus' instead.
Running 'orachk -autostatus' for this operation. Run 'orachk -autostop -h' for further help.

When the -autostart option is called and the TFA Scheduler is not running, you will receive a warning message suggesting that you start it.

ahfctl stopahf
 
Stopping TFA from the Command Line
Stopped OSWatcher
Nothing to do !
Please wait while TFA stops
Please wait while TFA stops
TFA-00002 Oracle Trace File Analyzer (TFA) is not running
TFA Stopped Successfully
Telemetry adapter is not running
Successfully stopped TFA..
 
No active orachk manual runs found
 
Stopping orachk scheduler ...
Removing orachk cache discovery....
No orachk cache discovery found.

Unable to send message to TFA
 
Removed orachk from inittab
 
Stopped orachk

orachk -autostart
TFA scheduler is not running. Please start TFA scheduler, by running 'ahfctl startahf', before configuring orachk to consume it.

Changes for legacy scheduler deprecation also include the ability to clean up legacy scheduler processes and remove orachk/exachk scheduler files upon an AHF upgrade, and/or by calling the -autostart or -autostop options.