Starting with 11gR1, we have a new way to deal with Oracle Errors & Tracefiles: There is now a special command line utility dedicated for that purpose called adrci (Automatic Diagnostic Repository Command Interpreter). This posting is intended to show you the (in my view) essential commands, a DBA ought to know in order to use it. We will look at
- Viewing the alert.log
- The relation between incident & problem
- Creation of Packages & ZIP files to send to Oracle Support
- Managing, especially purging tracefiles
I will at first create a problem. Don’t do that with your Production Database! Especially: Never do DML on dictionary tables!
[oracle@uhesse ~]$ sqlplus / as sysdba SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.2.0 Production on Wed Jun 1 10:25:06 2011 Copyright (c) 1982, 2010, Oracle. All rights reserved. Connected to: Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.2.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options SQL> select * from v$version; BANNER -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.2.0 - 64bit Production PL/SQL Release 11.2.0.2.0 - Production CORE 11.2.0.2.0 Production TNS for Linux: Version 11.2.0.2.0 - Production NLSRTL Version 11.2.0.2.0 - Production SQL> show parameter diagnostic NAME TYPE VALUE ------------------------------------ ----------- ------------------------------ diagnostic_dest string /u01/app/oracle SQL> grant dba to adam identified by adam; Grant succeeded. SQL> connect adam/adam Connected. SQL> create table t (n number); Table created. SQL> select object_id from user_objects; OBJECT_ID ---------- 75719 SQL> connect / as sysdba Connected. SQL> update tab$ set cols=2 where obj#=75719; 1 row updated. SQL> commit; Commit complete. SQL> alter system flush shared_pool; System altered. SQL> connect adam/adam Connected. SQL> select * from t; select * from t * ERROR at line 1: ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel Process ID: 2236 Session ID: 29 Serial number: 9
I flushed the Shared Pool to get the Data Dictionary Cache empty. Else the select may not crash the session as it did. Imagine the user calls me now on the phone. Our first idea as an experienced DBA: We look at the alert.log! Right so. Please notice that we now have two different kinds of the alert.log.
One is present in the conventional text format, per OFA in $ORACLE_BASE/diag/rdbms/name of the db/name of the instance/trace This location is determined by the new initialization parameter DIAGNOSTIC_DEST, while BACKGROUND_DUMP_DEST is deprecated in 11g.
1. Viewing the alert.log
The other one is in XML format placed in $ORACLE_BASE/diag/rdbms/name of the db/name of the instance/alert This version of the alert.log is accessed by adrci:
[oracle@uhesse ~]$ adrci ADRCI: Release 11.2.0.2.0 - Production on Wed Jun 1 10:20:08 2011 Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. ADR base = "/u01/app/oracle" adrci> show home ADR Homes: diag/tnslsnr/uhesse/listener diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl
Please notice that we have different ADR Homes. In my case only two, because I am not using Grid Infrastructure on this Demo System, else there would be another one. I specify my Database Home first. Then I look at the alert.log. Good news if you are on Windows: Finally, you can tail -f your alert.log also 🙂
adrci> set home diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl adrci> show alert -tail -f 2011-06-01 10:16:35.337000 +02:00 db_recovery_file_dest_size of 4032 MB is 0.00% used. This is a user-specified limit on the amount of space that will be used by this database for recovery-related files, and does not reflect the amount of space available in the underlying filesystem or ASM diskgroup. Starting background process CJQ0 CJQ0 started with pid=21, OS id=2204 2011-06-01 10:18:42.668000 +02:00 Exception [type: SIGSEGV, Address not mapped to object] [ADDR:0x0] [PC:0x90D891A, qcstda()+702] [flags: 0x0, count: 1] Errors in file /u01/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_ora_2236.trc (incident=6153): ORA-07445: exception encountered: core dump [qcstda()+702] [SIGSEGV] [ADDR:0x0] [PC:0x90D891A] [Address not mapped to object] [] Incident details in: /u01/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/incident/incdir_6153/orcl_ora_2236_i6153.trc Use ADRCI or Support Workbench to package the incident. See Note 411.1 at My Oracle Support for error and packaging details. 2011-06-01 10:18:47.518000 +02:00 Dumping diagnostic data in directory=[cdmp_20110601101847], requested by (instance=1, osid=2236), summary=[incident=6153]. 2011-06-01 10:18:48.727000 +02:00 Sweep [inc][6153]: completed Sweep [inc2][6153]: completed
2. The relation between Incident & Problem
You see the incident was recorded in the alert.log. And it tells you “Use ADRCI or Support Workbench to package the incident.” We will soon see how to do that. First I’d like to explain the relation between incident and problem: An incident is the concrete occurrence of a problem. In other words: The same problem may have multiple incidents. To show that, I will open another terminal and do again a select against the table t, while still tailing the alert log from the first session.
Second terminal:
[oracle@uhesse ~]$ sqlplus adam/adam SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.2.0 Production on Wed Jun 1 10:21:52 2011 Copyright (c) 1982, 2010, Oracle. All rights reserved. Connected to: Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.2.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options SQL> select * from t where n=42; select * from t where n=42 * ERROR at line 1: ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel Process ID: 2299 Session ID: 36 Serial number: 11
First terminal:
2011-06-01 10:21:31.367000 +02:00
Starting background process SMCO
SMCO started with pid=19, OS id=2268
2011-06-01 10:22:08.781000 +02:00
Exception [type: SIGSEGV, Address not mapped to object] [ADDR:0x0] [PC:0x90D891A, qcstda()+702] [flags: 0x0, count: 1]
Errors in file /u01/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_ora_2299.trc (incident=6201):
ORA-07445: exception encountered: core dump [qcstda()+702] [SIGSEGV] [ADDR:0x0] [PC:0x90D891A] [Address not mapped to object] []
Incident details in: /u01/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/incident/incdir_6201/orcl_ora_2299_i6201.trc
Use ADRCI or Support Workbench to package the incident.
See Note 411.1 at My Oracle Support for error and packaging details.
2011-06-01 10:22:11.135000 +02:00
Dumping diagnostic data in directory=[cdmp_20110601102211], requested by (instance=1, osid=2299), summary=[incident=6201].
2011-06-01 10:22:13.370000 +02:00
Sweep [inc][6201]: completed
Sweep [inc2][6201]: completed
I have seen the second incident recorded. I exit out of the tail -f with CTRL+C and continue:
adrci> show problem ADR Home = /u01/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl: ************************************************************************* PROBLEM_ID PROBLEM_KEY LAST_INCIDENT LASTINC_TIME -------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- -------------------- ---------------------------------------- 1 ORA 7445 [qcstda()+702] 6201 2011-06-01 10:22:08.924000 +02:00 1 rows fetched
So I have one problem with the ID 1 and the last incident occurred at 10:22. Are there more?
adrci> show incident ADR Home = /u01/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl: ************************************************************************* INCIDENT_ID PROBLEM_KEY CREATE_TIME -------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- 6153 ORA 7445 [qcstda()+702] 2011-06-01 10:18:42.995000 +02:00 6201 ORA 7445 [qcstda()+702] 2011-06-01 10:22:08.924000 +02:00 2 rows fetched
I want to see some more detail about the incidents:
adrci> show incident -mode detail -p "incident_id=6201" ADR Home = /u01/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl: ************************************************************************* ********************************************************** INCIDENT INFO RECORD 1 ********************************************************** INCIDENT_ID 6201 STATUS ready CREATE_TIME 2011-06-01 10:22:08.924000 +02:00 PROBLEM_ID 1 CLOSE_TIME FLOOD_CONTROLLED none ERROR_FACILITY ORA ERROR_NUMBER 7445 ERROR_ARG1 qcstda()+702 ERROR_ARG2 SIGSEGV ERROR_ARG3 ADDR:0x0 ERROR_ARG4 PC:0x90D891A ERROR_ARG5 Address not mapped to object ERROR_ARG6 ERROR_ARG7 ERROR_ARG8 ERROR_ARG9 ERROR_ARG10 ERROR_ARG11 ERROR_ARG12 SIGNALLING_COMPONENT SQL_Parser SIGNALLING_SUBCOMPONENT SUSPECT_COMPONENT SUSPECT_SUBCOMPONENT ECID IMPACTS 0 PROBLEM_KEY ORA 7445 [qcstda()+702] FIRST_INCIDENT 6153 FIRSTINC_TIME 2011-06-01 10:18:42.995000 +02:00 LAST_INCIDENT 6201 LASTINC_TIME 2011-06-01 10:22:08.924000 +02:00 IMPACT1 0 IMPACT2 0 IMPACT3 0 IMPACT4 0 KEY_NAME ProcId KEY_VALUE 25.3 KEY_NAME Client ProcId KEY_VALUE oracle@uhesse (TNS V1-V3).2299_140262306875136 KEY_NAME PQ KEY_VALUE (0, 1306916528) KEY_NAME SID KEY_VALUE 36.11 OWNER_ID 1 INCIDENT_FILE /u01/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_ora_2299.trc OWNER_ID 1 INCIDENT_FILE /u01/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/incident/incdir_6201/orcl_ora_2299_i6201.trc 1 rows fetched
I want to look at the incident tracefile mentioned above:
adrci> show trace /u01/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/incident/incdir_6201/orcl_ora_2299_i6201.trc /u01/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/incident/incdir_6201/orcl_ora_2299_i6201.trc ---------------------------------------------------------- LEVEL PAYLOAD ----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dump file /u01/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/incident/incdir_6201/orcl_ora_2299_i6201.trc Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.2.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options ORACLE_HOME = /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1 System name: Linux Node name: uhesse Release: 2.6.32-100.28.5.el6.x86_64 Version: #1 SMP Wed Feb 2 18:40:23 EST 2011 Machine: x86_64 Instance name: orcl Redo thread mounted by this instance: 1 Oracle process number: 25 Unix process pid: 2299, image: oracle@uhesse (TNS V1-V3) *** 2011-06-01 10:22:08.929 *** SESSION ID:(36.11) 2011-06-01 10:22:08.929 *** CLIENT ID:() 2011-06-01 10:22:08.929 *** SERVICE NAME:(SYS$USERS) 2011-06-01 10:22:08.929 *** MODULE NAME:(SQL*Plus) 2011-06-01 10:22:08.929 *** ACTION NAME:() 2011-06-01 10:22:08.929 Dump continued from file: /u01/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_ora_2299.trc 1> ***** Error Stack ***** ORA-07445: exception encountered: core dump [qcstda()+702] [SIGSEGV] [ADDR:0x0] [PC:0x90D891A] [Address not mapped to object] [] 1< ***** Error Stack ***** 1> ***** Dump for incident 6201 (ORA 7445 [qcstda()+702]) ***** 2> ***** Beginning of Customized Incident Dump(s) ***** 2> ***** Beginning of Customized Incident Dump(s) ***** Exception [type: SIGSEGV, Address not mapped to object] [ADDR:0x0] [PC:0x90D891A, qcstda()+702] [flags: 0x0, count: 1] Registers: %rax: 0x0000000000000000 %rbx: 0x00007f915c77f0e0 %rcx: 0x0000000000000007 %rdx: 0x0000000000000000 %rdi: 0x00007f915c77be98 %rsi: 0x0000000000000000 %rsp: 0x00007fffc65178e0 %rbp: 0x00007fffc6517960 %r8: 0x0000000000000028 %r9: 0x0000000000002000 %r10: 0x00000000093849c0 %r11: 0x0000000000000168 %r12: 0x00007f915c77ade8 %r13: 0x000000008edbb178 %r14: 0x00007f915c777da0 %r15: 0x00007f915c77ae28 %rip: 0x00000000090d891a %efl: 0x0000000000010246 qcstda()+686 (0x90d890a) mov -0x40(%rbp),%rdi qcstda()+690 (0x90d890e) mov %rdx,0x18(%rbx) qcstda()+694 (0x90d8912) mov 0x60(%r15),%rsi qcstda()+698 (0x90d8916) mov %ecx,0x8(%r15) > qcstda()+702 (0x90d891a) mov %ecx,(%rsi) qcstda()+704 (0x90d891c) mov 0x78(%rdi),%rdx qcstda()+708 (0x90d8920) test %rdx,%rdx qcstda()+711 (0x90d8923) jnz 0x90d8d03 qcstda()+717 (0x90d8929) mov -0x70(%rbp),%rdi *** 2011-06-01 10:22:08.963 dbkedDefDump(): Starting a non-incident diagnostic dump (flags=0x3, level=3, mask=0x0) 3> ***** Current SQL Statement for this session (sql_id=8r222qucmawdt) ***** select * from t where n=42 3< ***** current_sql_statement ***** 3
3. Creation of Packages & ZIP files to send to Oracle Support
I may not be able to solve the problem myself. Oracle Support will help me with that one. I gather all the required information with a method called “Incident Packaging Service” (IPS):
adrci> ips create package problem 1 correlate all Created package 2 based on problem id 1, correlation level all
This did not yet create a ZIP file and is therefore referred to as “Logical Package”. The ZIP file is generated from the Logical Package that was created:
adrci> ips generate package 2 in "/home/oracle" Generated package 2 in file /home/oracle/ORA7445qc_20110601112533_COM_1.zip, mode complete
4. Managing, especially purging of tracefiles
Now to the management of tracefiles. You may notice that 11g creates lots of tracefiles that need to be purged from time to time. In fact, this is done automatically, but you may want to change the default purge policy:
adrci> show tracefile -rt 01-JUN-11 10:31:48 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_mmon_2106.trc 01-JUN-11 09:43:43 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_ckpt_2100.trc 01-JUN-11 09:22:13 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/alert_orcl.log 01-JUN-11 09:22:11 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_diag_2088.trc 01-JUN-11 09:22:10 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_ora_2299.trc 01-JUN-11 09:22:10 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/incident/incdir_6201/orcl_ora_2299_i6201.trc 01-JUN-11 09:18:47 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_ora_2236.trc 01-JUN-11 09:18:47 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/incident/incdir_6153/orcl_ora_2236_i6153.trc 01-JUN-11 09:17:19 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_dbrm_2090.trc 01-JUN-11 09:16:44 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_j002_2210.trc 01-JUN-11 09:16:30 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_ora_2187.trc 01-JUN-11 09:16:19 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_mman_2094.trc 01-JUN-11 09:16:16 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_vktm_2082.trc 01-JUN-11 09:16:14 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_ora_2016.trc 30-MAY-11 14:07:02 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_mmon_2093.trc 30-MAY-11 11:15:30 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_ora_3414.trc 30-MAY-11 11:00:01 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_j000_2245.trc 30-MAY-11 10:56:58 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_dbrm_2077.trc 30-MAY-11 10:56:20 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_j002_2201.trc 30-MAY-11 10:56:06 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_ora_2178.trc 30-MAY-11 10:55:58 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_mman_2081.trc 30-MAY-11 10:55:55 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_vktm_2069.trc 30-MAY-11 10:55:53 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_ora_2006.trc 27-MAY-11 10:53:25 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_mmon_8589.trc 27-MAY-11 10:17:05 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_ora_11390.trc 27-MAY-11 09:26:41 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_ora_10739.trc 27-MAY-11 09:23:53 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_dbrm_8573.trc 27-MAY-11 09:22:58 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_ora_8687.trc 27-MAY-11 09:22:54 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_mman_8577.trc 27-MAY-11 09:22:50 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_vktm_8565.trc 27-MAY-11 09:22:48 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_ora_8516.trc 27-MAY-11 09:22:44 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_ora_8515.trc 27-MAY-11 09:22:44 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_vktm_8347.trc 27-MAY-11 09:21:24 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_dbrm_8355.trc 27-MAY-11 09:20:29 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_ora_8470.trc 27-MAY-11 09:20:28 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_mmon_8371.trc 27-MAY-11 09:20:28 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_ora_8381.trc 27-MAY-11 09:20:26 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_mman_8359.trc 27-MAY-11 09:20:20 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_ora_8299.trc 27-MAY-11 09:20:15 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_ora_8297.trc 27-MAY-11 09:20:15 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_vktm_8096.trc 27-MAY-11 09:20:07 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_ora_8296.trc 27-MAY-11 09:19:42 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_ora_8285.trc 27-MAY-11 09:19:33 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_dm00_8271.trc 27-MAY-11 09:19:33 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_dw00_8273.trc 27-MAY-11 09:19:11 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_dbrm_8104.trc 27-MAY-11 09:18:53 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_ora_8267.trc 27-MAY-11 09:18:33 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_j001_8237.trc 27-MAY-11 09:18:26 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_mmon_8219.trc 27-MAY-11 09:18:23 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_ora_8231.trc 27-MAY-11 09:18:22 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_cjq0_8229.trc 27-MAY-11 09:18:16 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_ora_8131.trc 27-MAY-11 09:18:14 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_m000_8223.trc 27-MAY-11 09:18:13 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_mman_8108.trc 27-MAY-11 09:18:05 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_ora_8048.trc 27-MAY-11 09:17:59 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_vktm_7920.trc 27-MAY-11 09:17:59 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_ora_8046.trc 27-MAY-11 09:17:00 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_mman_7932.trc 27-MAY-11 09:16:56 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_ora_7954.trc 27-MAY-11 09:16:51 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_ora_7871.trc
I have already got some tracefiles. How long are they going to stay?
adrci> show control ADR Home = /u01/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl: ************************************************************************* ADRID SHORTP_POLICY LONGP_POLICY LAST_MOD_TIME LAST_AUTOPRG_TIME LAST_MANUPRG_TIME ADRDIR_VERSION ADRSCHM_VERSION ADRSCHMV_SUMMARY ADRALERT_VERSION CREATE_TIME -------------------- -------------------- -------------------- ---------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- -------------------- -------------------- -------------------- -------------------- ---------------------------------------- 1335663986 720 8760 2011-05-27 10:16:46.997118 +02:00 1 2 80 1 2011-05-27 10:16:46.997118 +02:00 1 rows fetched
The ordinary tracefiles will stay for 30 days (720 hours), while files like incident files stay one year (8760 hours) by default. We can change that policy with for example:
adrci> set control (SHORTP_POLICY = 360) adrci> set control (LONGP_POLICY = 2190) adrci> show control ADR Home = /u01/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl: ************************************************************************* ADRID SHORTP_POLICY LONGP_POLICY LAST_MOD_TIME LAST_AUTOPRG_TIME LAST_MANUPRG_TIME ADRDIR_VERSION ADRSCHM_VERSION ADRSCHMV_SUMMARY ADRALERT_VERSION CREATE_TIME -------------------- -------------------- -------------------- ---------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- -------------------- -------------------- -------------------- -------------------- ---------------------------------------- 1335663986 360 2190 2011-06-01 11:42:17.208064 +02:00 1 2 80 1 2011-05-27 10:16:46.997118 +02:00 1 rows fetched
Also, we may want to purge tracefiles manually. Following command will manually purge all tracefiles older than 2 days (2880 minutes):
adrci> purge -age 2880 -type trace
adrci> show tracefile -rt
01-JUN-11 10:46:54 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_mmon_2106.trc
01-JUN-11 09:43:43 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_ckpt_2100.trc
01-JUN-11 09:22:13 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/alert_orcl.log
01-JUN-11 09:22:11 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_diag_2088.trc
01-JUN-11 09:22:10 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/incident/incdir_6201/orcl_ora_2299_i6201.trc
01-JUN-11 09:22:10 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_ora_2299.trc
01-JUN-11 09:18:47 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/incident/incdir_6153/orcl_ora_2236_i6153.trc
01-JUN-11 09:18:47 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_ora_2236.trc
01-JUN-11 09:17:19 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_dbrm_2090.trc
01-JUN-11 09:16:44 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_j002_2210.trc
01-JUN-11 09:16:30 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_ora_2187.trc
01-JUN-11 09:16:19 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_mman_2094.trc
01-JUN-11 09:16:16 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_vktm_2082.trc
01-JUN-11 09:16:14 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_ora_2016.trc
30-MAY-11 14:07:02 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_mmon_2093.trc
30-MAY-11 11:15:30 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_ora_3414.trc
30-MAY-11 11:00:01 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_j000_2245.trc
30-MAY-11 10:56:58 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_dbrm_2077.trc
30-MAY-11 10:56:20 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_j002_2201.trc
30-MAY-11 10:56:06 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_ora_2178.trc
30-MAY-11 10:55:58 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_mman_2081.trc
30-MAY-11 10:55:55 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_vktm_2069.trc
30-MAY-11 10:55:53 diag/rdbms/orcl/orcl/trace/orcl_ora_2006.trc
Conclusion: With adrci, we have a new and efficient utility to deal with Oracle Errors – especially for collecting information to send them to Oracle Support. This functionality is called Incident Packaging Service. 11g is generating lots of tracefiles. We can control the purging policy of them with adrci. Finally, we can now tail -f our alert.log from any OS.
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#1 by Asif Momen on June 1, 2011 - 12:39
Precisely written and worth reading 🙂
#2 by LewisC on June 1, 2011 - 13:56
Uwe,
Nice post. Concise and very useful. Thanks.
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#3 by Uwe Hesse on June 1, 2011 - 21:41
Thank you Asif and Lewis for your nice feedback! I really appreciate it 🙂
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#4 by Sadeq on June 2, 2011 - 00:09
Thank you for this info, I learnt today something new that really helps me especially I have incident today and i was tracing it manule, now i have this tool which will help me a lots.
#5 by mdinh on June 2, 2011 - 03:50
Wanted to supplement your post with mine “Alert Log Monitoring using ADRCI” http://j.mp/kvGK3g
#6 by Anand on June 2, 2011 - 09:12
Hi Uwe,
Nice and simple again 🙂
Anand
#7 by Uwe Hesse on June 3, 2011 - 08:50
@mdinh, thanks for the supplement! Reminds me to add to my disclaimer that I am not responsible for any comments content/link 🙂
Sadeq & Anand,
thank you guys for the nice feedback! Glad if you found the posting helpful 🙂
#8 by Rochak on June 9, 2011 - 11:45
Perfect
#9 by Rafi on June 9, 2011 - 15:58
Hi Uwe,
Came to know about many concepts.Thanks very much.
Best regards,
Rafi.
#10 by Uwe Hesse on June 9, 2011 - 16:13
Hi Rafi,
thank YOU! You’re welcome 🙂
#11 by neeraj on June 10, 2011 - 14:04
It is very useful and nice post.
all the best…….
#12 by sunil on June 14, 2011 - 04:48
too good.. 🙂
#13 by Uwe Hesse on June 15, 2011 - 17:40
Thank you, Neeraj and Sunil!
#14 by Ramanoudjame TIROUMALAI on June 17, 2011 - 15:53
Hi Uwe,
I’m dealing with 11g R2 since more than three months. This article has provided me something new and easy for maintenance tasks on databases.
Thanks a lot.
For further information about adrci, I went through Chapter 16 of Oracle Utilities on the following link.
Click to access e16536.pdf
Regards,
Tirou
#15 by paul.mcmanus@maxima.co.uk on June 17, 2011 - 16:05
Hi
Anyone have issues with the autmatic and manual purge of the trace subdirectory not working as expected?
One of our servers has entries under the trace subdirectories for a number of databases going back to October 2010.
show tracefile -rt only shows some of the tracefile history (last couple of weeks) and performing a manual ADRCI purge will remove the files listed in show tracefile output but no further back than that so we have to manually delete the tracefiles using OS commands
#16 by Krish Sridhara on July 28, 2011 - 18:10
Hi Uwe,
Your post on Exadata and adrci (my favorite resolution, rca tool in 11g) is simply superb.
I have one question though similar to purging the trace files, can the listener.log be purged or is there any other to do logrotate.
I highly appreciate your response.
Thanks and Regards,
#17 by Uwe Hesse on July 29, 2011 - 04:40
Krish,
presently, it seems not to be possible to purge the listener.log with adrci. You may still use logrotate until that works with adrci also.
#18 by Krish Sridhara on August 3, 2011 - 18:30
Hi Uwe,
I highly appreciate your response.
I wish that could be done.
Thanks and Regards,
Ram
#19 by Pavel Ermakov on September 2, 2011 - 10:03
Hi
Good post!Thanks!
Regards,
Pavel.
#20 by Greg Cook on September 2, 2011 - 10:26
Nice post Uwe.
If you didn’t know already Fusion Middleware also uses ADR for the creation of incidents and storage of associated diagnostic dumps. I’ve posted an introductory article on it here:
http://blogs.oracle.com/fmwdiag/entry/introduction_to_fmw_diagnostic
#21 by shrikant rao on September 3, 2011 - 09:20
Hi Uwe,
As usual great pleasure reading your article and this one was a nice post.
Shrikant.
#22 by Uwe Hesse on September 3, 2011 - 09:28
Pavel, Shrikant: Thank you for the nice feedback! Very much appreciated 🙂
Greg,
I must admit that I don’t know much about Fusion Middleware – that includes the presence of ADR there. Thank you for the information!
#23 by neerajvasudeva on September 6, 2011 - 06:34
very nicely documented.
#24 by Mark Heckler on September 6, 2011 - 19:35
Well-stated and nicely illustrated, as always. Thanks, Uwe!
#25 by Uwe Hesse on September 6, 2011 - 21:19
Thank you, Neeraj and Mark! Very much appreciated 🙂
#26 by Mubeenubeen on September 18, 2011 - 09:19
excellentent article again. very clear & very useful.
thanks for great work here.
#27 by Uwe Hesse on September 20, 2011 - 18:53
Thanks for the nice feedback! You’re welcome 🙂
#28 by Ram on February 5, 2012 - 18:19
Hi
can you please explain the awr report
#29 by Uwe Hesse on February 7, 2012 - 13:26
Ram, there is no direct relation to AWR reports here.
#30 by Phil on February 15, 2012 - 17:24
Thanks for the info, used it today to upload a package to Oracle.
#31 by Uwe Hesse on February 21, 2012 - 20:19
You’re welcome, Phil, thanks for stopping by 🙂
#32 by Saurabh Gupta on February 22, 2012 - 08:03
Great tip to monitor trace files
#33 by jaygee on February 22, 2012 - 13:22
Have you ever come across the error “DIA-48110: error encountered while attempting to remove a file, DIA-48190: OS unlink system call failure…………”???
#34 by Uwe Hesse on February 22, 2012 - 18:49
Saurabh Gupta, thanks for the nice comment!
Jaygee, no, I did not encounter that, but I recall that error mentioned in some other Blog where they created files with reserved names manually in the diag subfolders.
#35 by Vijay Dwivedi on February 26, 2012 - 08:38
Very nicely written article, any idea how to change Alert Log file location. I am using Windows 2008 R2 as OS for 11gR2.
#36 by newbie01oracle on March 29, 2012 - 01:07
Hi
Absolutely love all your posts. Would be nice if there is printer friendly version though :(-
#37 by Pankaj on May 23, 2012 - 15:21
Hi,
Nice post… 🙂
Thanks
Pankaj Gupta
#38 by Uwe Hesse on June 1, 2012 - 08:43
Pankaj, thanks for leaving this nice comment 🙂
#39 by Samir on July 29, 2012 - 16:33
A little late on reading this, Excellent post, I really wonder how and when you people get all the time to keep up with this ever evolving technology
#40 by Narayan on July 30, 2012 - 07:14
Hello Uwe
Its really helpful for analysis
Regards
Narayan
#41 by Uwe Hesse on July 30, 2012 - 17:21
Samir, thank you! Fortunately, it’s part of my job to keep up with Oracle Database New Features 🙂
Narayan, you’re welcome 🙂
#42 by Sam on July 31, 2012 - 05:06
This post is really useful.
#43 by Uwe Hesse on August 2, 2012 - 09:11
Thank you, Sam, for leaving the nice feedback 🙂
#44 by Amit Sanghvi on September 12, 2012 - 06:06
Hey Uwe, I find your posts very helpful. Please keep writing more of them. They make the topics interesting and simple to understand.
– Amit
#45 by sai on September 29, 2012 - 07:26
Hi uwe,
Please guide me how to start the Oracle Tuning.
Regards,
Sai
#46 by Reddy on October 8, 2012 - 12:25
Very nice post Sir.. Thank you
#47 by Uwe Hesse on October 9, 2012 - 21:31
You’re welcome 🙂
#48 by Yasir on October 15, 2012 - 07:45
Exellent!! You explain complex things in simpler ways..
#49 by sendtoshailesh on October 16, 2012 - 13:18
nice explanation !!
Keep posting. This is helpful for lot more than DBAs !!
#50 by Uwe Hesse on October 23, 2012 - 16:49
Thank you guys 🙂
#51 by Daz on November 12, 2012 - 03:49
Thanks Ewe, exactly what I needed, brief, clear and concise.
#52 by Uwe Hesse on November 12, 2012 - 09:36
It’s Uwe, and my pleasure 🙂
#53 by vivien on November 14, 2012 - 16:57
Really great explanation and clear. I’m myself SENIOR Oracle Instructor and DBA. And it’s not the only one from you.
I’v read a lot of interesting doc from your blog.
THANK YOU for ALL !!!!!!!!!!!
#54 by Brajesh on December 17, 2012 - 14:54
Uwe… Not sure how to convey my satisfaction after reading this blog
Nothing else,but to the point… You shaved my few hours and frustration reading oracle doc.
Once again thanks
#55 by Uwe Hesse on December 19, 2012 - 09:37
Vivien and Brajesh, thank you very much for taking the effort to leave such a nice feedback! I really appreciate it 🙂
#56 by Ahmet on January 3, 2013 - 13:44
Hi Uwe, thanks for great post.
#57 by Uwe Hesse on January 6, 2013 - 10:58
Ahmet, you’re welcome 🙂
#58 by priyadarshani on January 18, 2013 - 09:03
Hi UWE ,
it was very helpful for me as I was not knowing anything about ADRCI
suddenly I face issue of that and I was blank
but you save me
thank you so much
priyadarshani
#59 by Uwe Hesse on January 20, 2013 - 11:33
Thank you for leaving this nice feedback then! You’re welcome 🙂
#60 by Zubair on February 8, 2013 - 01:03
Really great explanation very helpful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank You
#61 by Sparkle on May 22, 2013 - 00:38
Thank you, I use your page as my goto reference when my syntax fails me.
#62 by Uwe Hesse on May 27, 2013 - 08:20
Thank YOU for sharing this – I hope others may follow your example 😉
#63 by Harini on June 18, 2013 - 01:39
Very nice – Thank you so much for your post. it saved a lot of time.
#64 by Anil Panda on June 26, 2013 - 12:04
Awesome explanation with detailed examples 🙂 !!
#65 by Gerrit Haase on November 29, 2013 - 15:48
Is there an extended version of this howto available, which is also talking about log_X.xml files? Are these treated the same way than “trace” files, and what about trace/alertORCL.log and trace/listener.log which are not rotatetd, is there an option or will there be an option to administer these with ADRCI?
#66 by Jijo on January 7, 2014 - 18:48
Hi Uwe , Nice post.Thank you so much…
#67 by Mauricio Miret on January 10, 2014 - 17:32
Very useful! Nice, concise and well explained.
#68 by CLETO S. FERNANDES on February 11, 2014 - 22:16
Uwe some !!! Thanks a lot !!!
#69 by Narodowy Fundusz Ochrony Środowiska on September 5, 2014 - 13:41
I’m gone to inform my little brother, that he should also pay a quick visit this
web site on regular basis to get updated from newest
news update.
#70 by Asgar on April 25, 2015 - 21:55
Really very useful utility and nicely explained.
Thanks a lots..
#71 by jim Basler on April 29, 2015 - 18:11
Thanks. Clear info but most important, it has the essentials.
#72 by ranjan on September 24, 2015 - 11:51
It was really helpful.Learnt a lot about adrci
#73 by Santosh Loke on September 24, 2015 - 12:13
thanks much for the concise info.One thing I would mention is that since syntax can get a bit confusing, it always helps to use “help”.
e.g. help ips pack
help show home
etc.
#74 by Zuks on October 30, 2015 - 13:33
Awesome stuff! i didn’t even know about it in my entire DBA life. 🙂
#75 by Bart on April 23, 2016 - 01:57
Hi Uwe,
While we are able to do show control to show when auto purge run or when we ran a manual purge, is there any information somewhere that shows what’s been purged? I know it is paranoia but sometimes we want to know what’s purged and when.
Thanks in advance.
#76 by Uwe Hesse on April 27, 2016 - 09:07
Hi Bart, I don’t think so, sorry.
#77 by muthu on April 28, 2016 - 08:00
Superb
#78 by kham on April 28, 2016 - 09:44
Thank you so much for sharing this valuable informartions.
Regards
#79 by Darsh on August 4, 2016 - 15:33
Hi Uwe,
I am a beginner in Oracle DBA,When i was trying to create a problem by flushing the table it is not creating in order to identify the incident id and problem key. Could u please suggest me how exactly a problem occurs on the table with or without flushing the shared pool….
#80 by Peter on August 16, 2017 - 11:35
Hi Uwe
Is there anyway to purge problems with adrci directly. I don´t find any related incident on the database but still getting few problems related with incidents and I want to clear them.
Rgds
#81 by Peter on August 16, 2017 - 11:54
About #80
delete from problem where problem_id=
I found this and it works. The only thing is that you miss any reference to the problem on the database because it has been deleated
#82 by Franklanio on March 6, 2020 - 04:51
Grata post!!!
#83 by Sai on April 27, 2020 - 15:58
Hi,
When we type show incidents , it’ll show list of incidents and at the end it will still more incidents available. How to get information of those extra incidents ?