Exadata Quick Reference 6: Important Oracle Exadata Configuration Files

Oracle Exadata and Storage cell having multiple configuration files which define the Exadata configuration. We have listed down the important configuration files for Compute and Storage node which can be used as quick reference for any kind of troubleshooting during Exadata support.

Exadata Compute Node:

/opt/oracle - contains dbserver software

Exadata Quick Reference 2: Oracle Exadata Diag Utilities

exawatcher

Location: /opt/oracle.ExaWatcher/GetExaWatcherResults.sh 

What it does?

Useful to monitor Diskinfo, IBCardInfo, IBprocs, Iostat, LGWR, Lsof, MegaRaidFW, Meminfo, Mpstat, Netstat, Ps, RDSinfo, Slabinfo, Top, Vmstat. It saves historical data in /opt/oracle.ExaWatcher/archive in each server.