Whats new in oracle orachk & exachk 18.2.0
- 1. Copyright © 2018, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Confidential â Oracle Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted ORAchk & EXAchk Whatâs New in 18.2.0
- 2. Copyright © 2018, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Automatic proactive warning of problems before they impact you 2 Get scheduled health reports sent to you in email Why Oracle ORAchk & EXAchk Health checks for most impactful reoccurring problems Runs in your environment with no need to send anything to Oracle Findings can be integrated into other tools of choiceEngineered Systems Non Engineered Systems EXAchk Common Framework ORAchk
- 3. Copyright © 2018, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Whatâs new REST interface Only the most critical checks shown by default Remote node connection without passwordless SSH Python 3 compatibility Support for Oracle Autonomous Database Encrypted resulting zip file New health checks 1 2 4 3 5 6 7
- 4. Copyright © 2018, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Whatâs new REST interface Only the most critical checks shown by default Remote node connection without passwordless SSH Python 3 compatibility Support for Oracle Autonomous Database Encrypted resulting zip file New health checks 1 2 4 3 5 6 7
- 5. Copyright © 2018, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | REST Interface âą ORAchk and EXAchk include full REST support, allowing invocation & query over HTTPS âą Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS) is included within the install âą To enable REST: 1. Start ORDS: 2. Start the daemon, using the -ords option: âą Start a full health check run by accessing the URL: https://<host>:7080/ords/tfaml/orachk/start_client âą Run specific profiles: https://<host>:7080/ords/tfaml/orachk/profile/<profile1>,<profile2> âą Run specific checks: https://<host>:7080/ords/tfaml/orachk/check/<check_id>,<check_id> âą Any request will return a job id, which can then be used to query: â Status: https://<host>:7080/ords/tfaml/orachk/status/<job_id> â Download result: https://<host>:7080/ords/tfaml/orachk/download/<job_id> âordssetup -d start -ords The standalone ORDS setup feature utilizes file based user authentication and is provided solely for use in test and development environments. For production use, the included orachk.jar and ords.war should be deployed and configured.
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- 7. Copyright © 2018, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Only the most critical checks shown by default Confidential â Oracle Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 7 Only critical checks shown by default 1 All other checks are run and available 2 ./orachk âprofile oratier1 ./exachk âprofile exatier1 To only run critical checks use the appropriate profile:
- 8. Copyright © 2018, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Whatâs new REST interface Only the most critical checks shown by default Remote node connection without passwordless SSH Python 3 compatibility Support for Oracle Autonomous Database Encrypted resulting zip file New health checks 1 2 4 3 5 6 7
- 9. Copyright © 2018, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Remote node connection without passwordless SSH âą ORAchk/EXAchk will: 1. Prompt for remote node password 2. Login to remote node and generate private and public key pair on remote node 3. Copy contents public key into the .ssh/authorized_keys file of remote node and delete the public key from remote node 4. Copy private key of remote node into local node and use as identity file to make future connections âą Alternatively you can provide the private key file yourself Run: E.g.: âą This will generate the following key pair in the $HOME/.ssh/ directory: â id_dsa.myhost67.root (private key / Identity file) â id_dsa.myhost67.root.pub (Public key) Confidential â Oracle Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 9 ssh-keygen -f $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa.host.user -N '' ssh-keygen -f $HOME/.ssh/id_dsa.myhost67.user -N ''
- 10. Copyright © 2018, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Whatâs new REST interface Only the most critical checks shown by default Remote node connection without passwordless SSH Python 3 compatibility Support for Oracle Autonomous Database Encrypted resulting zip file New health checks 1 2 4 3 5 6 7
- 11. Copyright © 2018, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | ⹠ORAchk & EXAchk now use Python 3.6 ⹠Python 3.6 provides better security & performance over older python versions Python 3 compatibility
- 12. Copyright © 2018, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Whatâs new REST interface Only the most critical checks shown by default Remote node connection without passwordless SSH Python 3 compatibility Support for Oracle Autonomous Database Encrypted resulting zip file New health checks 1 2 4 3 5 6 7
- 13. Copyright © 2018, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Newly Supported Oracle Autonomous Database âą Self-Driving â User defines service levels, database makes them happen âą Self-Securing â Protection from both external attacks and malicious internal users âą Self-Repairing â Automated protection from all downtime 13
- 14. Copyright © 2018, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Whatâs new REST interface Only the most critical checks shown by default Remote node connection without passwordless SSH Python 3 compatibility Support for Oracle Autonomous Database Encrypted resulting zip file New health checks 1 2 4 3 5 6 7
- 15. Copyright © 2018, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Encrypted resulting zip file âą ORAchk and EXAchk can encrypt the resulting collection zip file âą To use encryption add the option -encryptzip: e.g. â This will prompt for the password â Once the zip file is encrypted, the original zip and directory will be deleted âą To decrypt a zip use: Confidential â Oracle Internal/Restricted/Highly Restricted 15 âprofile dba -encryptzip âdecryptzip <zip_filename> The encrypt/decrypt feature is only supported on Linux and Solaris platforms.
- 16. Copyright © 2018, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | Whatâs new REST interface Only the most critical checks shown by default Remote node connection without passwordless SSH Python 3 compatibility Support for Oracle Autonomous Database New health checks 1 2 4 3 5 6
- 17. Copyright © 2018, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | âą New Oracle Stack Health Checks â Including checks for several new Exadata critical issues â For details of the new checks see: âą ORAchk Health Check Catalog âą EXAchk Health Check Catalog â The Health Check Catalog is also contained within the download New Oracle Stack Health Checks
- 18. Copyright © 2018, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. | More Info: ORAchk: Doc 1268927.2 EXAchk: Doc 1070954.1 18
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