Monday, September 9, 2013

RAC Check Tool

RACcheck is a RAC Configuration Audit tool  designed to audit various important configuration settings within a Real Application Clusters (RAC), Oracle Clusterware (CRS), Automatic Storage Management (ASM) and Grid Infrastructure environment.

Installation
1.       Log in to the system as the Oracle RDBMS software installation owner (if Oracle products installed, otherwise log in as root)
2.       Stage the appropriate raccheck.zip kit in its own directory the node
3.       Unzip raccheck.zip kit, leaving the script and driver files together in the same directory
4.       Validate the permissions for raccheck are 755 (-rwxr-xr-x).

Running RACcheck
$ ./raccheck

 Follow the prompts while reading and understanding all messages.
1.      Provide crs_home
2.      Choose the database, or select 1 for All or comma separated number like 1,2 etc [1-2][1].1
3.      Provide root password, or skip the root privileged collections
4.      View output location and upload the zip file to metalink.

Reference
RACcheck - RAC Configuration Audit Tool (Doc ID 1268927.1)