11g Installation

Last night I was able to successfully installed Oracle 11g on Red Hat Linux(v4). The only problem I have faced during the installation stage (the prerequisite check stage) was about missing Red Hat rpms (three) and minimum memory required for installation(I have installed on a virtual machine with 700+M) .

I am very inquisitive to test RMAN enhancements and also Active Standby Database feature.

Jaffar

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

11g, Whitepappers on OTN.

I have seen many people talking about the arrival and launch of Oracle 11g.

I found few of 11g Whitepapers on OTN. Following is the URL for the PDFs.

http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/oracle11g/index.html

Jaffar