ODA-- Health Check Reports // the control points & the subtitles

You probably already guessed that I m doing ODA health checks nowadays.
Mostly, these health checks are done on virtualized platforms, but they are applicable for the bare metal platforms too.

In this blog post, I will briefly introduce the things that I check in an ODA Health check.
I usually check these control points, try to detect any errors or misconfiguration, prepare my action plans, my suggestions and lastly create my health check report accordingly.
Almost forgot :) I also write a conclusion for managers... One or two paragraphs which can be understood without having a deep technical knowledge about ODA and its components. A plane and simple conclusion summarizing the controls and action plans.

So here is the list of the subtitles that I use in my ODA health check reports.. (note that they are based on my control points)

• Current, minimum Supported and Recommended versions
• Hardware checks
• ILOMS
• BIOS information
•  NETWORK Cabling
• Power Cabling
• Led panels (the light in the front panel of the ODA nodes)
• RDBMS
• Parameters
• Performance (mostly based on the AWR reports)
• Backup policy
• Errors and traces
• Version, critical one-off patches and PSU level
• GRID
• ASM configuration
• ASM errors and traces
• Version, critical one-off patches and PSU level
•  Cluster resources and cluster interconnect
• Operating System (OVM)
• Resource consumption
• utilization
• load
• errors and traces
• configuration (network configuration included)
• OAKD & XEND analysis
• boot logs, last command output
•  SAR command outputs
• SOS report outputs
• OAK Validate outputs
• ORACHK outputs