7.15.2007

alert.log file in 11g

According to metalink note - 438148.1, beginning with Release 11g, the alert log file is written as XML formatted and as a text file (like in previous releases). The default location of both these files is the new ADR home (Automatic Diagnostic Respository, yet another new dump dest in 11g).

The ADR is set by using the DIAGNOSTIC_DEST initialization parameter. If this parameter is omitted, then, the default location of ADR is, 'u01/oracle/product/ora11g/log' (depends on ORACLE_HOME settings).

The location of an ADR home is given by the following path, which starts at the ADR base directory: ADR_BASE/diag/product_type/product_id/instance_id

If environment variable ORACLE_BASE is not set, DIAGNOSTIC_DEST is set to ORACLE_HOME/log.

Within the ADR home directory are subdirectories:
alert - The XML formatted alertlog
trace - files and text alert.log file
cdump - core files

The XML formatted alert.log is named as 'log.xml'

Happy Reading,

Jaffar

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi Jaffar

Really interesting your post.

You proved the beta version of 11g?

Who has access to that version?

regards
Hector Gabriel Ulloa Ligarius
From Santiago of Chile , SouthAmerica
http://ligarius.wordpress.com

Anonymous said...

Few days back I had problem in finding trace file.

After some research I now think best way to find the path is to query the v$diag_info view.

Rajs
http://www.oraclebrains.com