Database Support: Exalogic Managing Machine

Dear Readers,

My name is Franz Devantier, creator of this blog. I am an Oracle Certified Professional (OCP DBA 11g) Security DBA. I will be sharing with you the basic duties of an Oracle DBA, and also some of the undocumented, and not so well known tasks.

I will make a deal with you: If you refer me to a company that needs database support, from a few hours per week to full time, and I am able to sign a contract with them.

Then I will give you 10% of the monthly contract or deal price every month. When the contract ends, and we re-sign the contract, I will again give you 10% of the monthly contract price. This will go on until the company no longer employs or contracts me or my agents to look after their databases.

I can do this, because that 10% is my marketing budget. When we re-sign the contract, in the future, it may depend on you giving the thumbs up again, and that is worth 10% of the monthly contract price, to be given to you as commission.

Contact: Franz

Exalogic Managing Machine - Part 7

Viewing the Exalogic System Report

You can also view existing reports or create new reports. The Exalogic report contains a few sections:

-> Report Parameters

-> Summary Table

-> System Control Software Table

-> Compute Nodes Table

-> Switches Table

-> Storage Appliances Table

-> Power Distribution Units Table

-> Validation Table

Report Parameters

The Report Parameters section will display the name and the model of the Exalogic system. It will also display the number of assets in the rack, by their types, as for example Compute nodes, switches, storage Nodes in the System.

Summary Table

The Summary Table is a list of all the detailed tables in the full report. It will also display the number of records for each detail table.

System Control Software Table

The System Control Software table has a list of points that it lists:

-> Exalogic Control software components

-> Versions of Exalogic control software components

-> Descriptions

-> Names of VMs running Exalogic Control

-> Names of Oracle VM Servers hosting Exalogic Control VMs

Compute Nodes Table

The rack setup is displayed in the Compute nodes tables, which has the following entries:

-> Type of Asset

-> Name of asset or compute node

-> Firmware version, such as the BIOS, and the service processor, and the HCA adapter

-> Version and location of the asset in the rack

Switches Table

The switches tables displays the information that is relevant to the switch, such as:

-> The name of the switch node

-> Type of switch

-> Firmware version

-> Location of the switch in the rack

-> Slot number where it is placed

Storage Appliances Table

The Storage Appliances table, displays information relevant to the appliances such as:

-> Name of the compute Node

-> Version of the service processor firmware

-> Location of the appliance with the slot number

-> Where it is placed in the rack

Power Distribution Units Table

The table displays the Power Distribution Units (PDUs) and their firmware version.

Validation Table

This table will display the validation result of the rack. A baseline check is performed against the known schema for the rack. The “Expected Component” displays the expected component, only if the placed component in the slot does not match the schema, when the baseline check is performed.