ASRexacheck Utility - Validate Exadata Oracle ASR Deployment

ASRexacheck utility can be executed to verify the ASR deployment. Oracle Auto Service Request (ASR) is a secure, scalable, customer-installable software feature of warranty and Oracle Support Services that provides auto-case generation when common hardware component faults occur.

It is important to note that, ASR is not a system management or monitoring tool. It is developed & designed to open Oracle Automatic Service Requests when specific hardware faults are detected on Oracle products that are qualified for ASR. Oracle Exadata Database Machine is a qualified production for Oracle ASR.

You can execute ASRexacheck in any of the following 2 ways:

• As part of the Oracle Exadata Database Machine exachk
• Stand-alone mode on a single node or multiple nodes

In this article we will demonstrate how to execute ASRexacheck on in Stand-alone mode on a single server and mutliple servers using dcli.

• Ensure that the ASRexacheck verison is 4.x. If is is older than 4.x, then download the latest ASRexacheck from the MOS note below.

Engineered Systems ASR Configuration Check tool (asrexacheck version 4.x) (Doc ID 2103715.1)

• ASRexacheck Download and & Upgrade steps
• Download the asrexacheck zip file from the MOS note.
• Copy the asrexacheck zip to the following directory: /opt/oracle.SupportTools/
• Unzip the asrexacheck utility

          # cd /opt/oracle.SupportTools/

          # unzip asrexacheck_43.zip

• Change the running permissions to execute

                    # chmod 755 /opt/oracle.SupportTools/asrexacheck

• Verify the asrexacheck version

                    # /opt/oracle.SupportTools/asrexacheck –v

• ASRexacheck execution On a single Exadata server

[root@dm01db01 oracle.SupportTools]# /opt/oracle.SupportTools/asrexacheck
asrexacheck version: 4.0
Current time: 2018-04-09 10:42:51

================================================================================
SYSTEM CONFIGURATION
================================================================================
Product name           : Exadata X5-2
Product serial         : AK003XXXXX
Component name         : ORACLE SERVER X5-2
Component serial       : 1546XX111X
Engineered System type : Exadata
Server type            : COMPUTE
Image version          : 18.1.4.0.0.180125.3
OS IP Address          : 10.10.10.1
OS Hostname            : dm01db01
OS version             : 4.1.12-94.7.8.el6uek.x86_64
ILOM IP Address        : 10.10.10.14
ILOM Hostname          : dm01db01-ilom
ILOM version           : 4.0.0.24

================================================================================
NETWORK
================================================================================
Interface  IP Address                      Hostname        Route   fromIP
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
bondeth0   10.20.16.1                     dm0101          NO
eth0       10.10.10.1                     dm01db01        YES

================================================================================
ASR
================================================================================
Destination     Hostname        Rule Type  DBMCLI Port Level   Community Version
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
10.10.10.1     dm01db01          1               8162 minor   LocalMSV3user       3
192.168.10.1  oragwserver                   YES   162           public
192.168.10.1  oragwserver        2                162 minor     public      2c

[OK] Exactly one OS and ILOM IP coincide (192.168.10.1)
* Validation:
[OK] OS Test event sent to 192.168.10.1:162
[OK] ILOM Test event sent to 192.168.10.1:162

Time elapsed script execution: 00:04:44
Zipfile /var/log/asrexacheck/asrexacheck_dm01db01_20180409T154251.zip of the outputs created

• ASRexacheck execution on all Exadata Compute nodes

[root@dm01db01 oracle.SupportTools]# dcli -g ~/dbs_group -l root '/opt/oracle.SupportTools/asrexacheck'
dm01db01: asrexacheck version: 4.0
dm01db01: Current time: 2018-04-09 10:42:51
dm01db01:
dm01db01: ================================================================================
dm01db01: SYSTEM CONFIGURATION
dm01db01: ================================================================================
dm01db01: Product name           : Exadata X5-2
dm01db01: Product serial         : AK003XXXXX
dm01db01: Component name         : ORACLE SERVER X5-2
dm01db01: Component serial       : 1546XX111X
dm01db01: Engineered System type : Exadata
dm01db01: Server type            : COMPUTE
dm01db01: Image version          : 18.1.4.0.0.180125.3
dm01db01: OS IP Address          : 10.10.10.1
dm01db01: OS Hostname            : dm01db01
dm01db01: OS version             : 4.1.12-94.7.8.el6uek.x86_64
dm01db01: ILOM IP Address        : 10.10.10.14
dm01db01: ILOM Hostname          : dm01db01-ilom
dm01db01: ILOM version           : 4.0.0.24
dm01db01:
dm01db01: ================================================================================
dm01db01: NETWORK
dm01db01: ================================================================================
dm01db01: Interface  IP Address                      Hostname        Route   fromIP
dm01db01: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
dm01db01: bondeth0   10.20.16.1                     dm0101          NO
dm01db01: eth0       10.10.10.1                     dm01db01        YES
dm01db01:
dm01db01: ================================================================================
dm01db01: ASR
dm01db01: ================================================================================
dm01db01: Destination     Hostname        Rule Type  DBMCLI Port Level   Community Version
dm01db01: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
dm01db01: 10.10.10.1     dm01db01          1               8162 minor   LocalMSV3user       3
dm01db01: 192.168.10.1  oragwserver                   YES   162           public
dm01db01: 192.168.10.1  oragwserver        2                162 minor     public      2c
dm01db01:
dm01db01: [OK] Exactly one OS and ILOM IP coincide (192.168.10.1)
dm01db01: * Validation:
dm01db01: [OK] OS Test event sent to 192.168.10.1:162
dm01db01: [OK] ILOM Test event sent to 192.168.10.1:162
dm01db01:
dm01db01: Time elapsed script execution: 00:04:44
dm01db01: Zipfile /var/log/asrexacheck/asrexacheck_dm01db01_20180409T154251.zip of the outputs created
dm01db02: asrexacheck version: 4.0
dm01db02: Current time: 2018-04-09 10:42:51
dm01db02:
dm01db02: ================================================================================
dm01db02: SYSTEM CONFIGURATION
dm01db02: ================================================================================
dm01db02: Product name           : Exadata X5-2
dm01db02: Product serial         : AK003XXXXX
dm01db02: Component name         : ORACLE SERVER X5-2
dm01db02: Component serial       : 1546XX11XX
dm01db02: Engineered System type : Exadata
dm01db02: Server type            : COMPUTE
dm01db02: Image version          : 18.1.4.0.0.180125.3
dm01db02: OS IP Address          : 10.10.10.2
dm01db02: OS Hostname            : dm01db02
dm01db02: OS version             : 4.1.12-94.7.8.el6uek.x86_64
dm01db02: ILOM IP Address        : 10.10.10.15
dm01db02: ILOM Hostname          : dm01db02-ilom
dm01db02: ILOM version           : 4.0.0.24
dm01db02:
dm01db02: ================================================================================
dm01db02: NETWORK
dm01db02: ================================================================================
dm01db02: Interface  IP Address                      Hostname        Route   fromIP
dm01db02: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
dm01db02: bondeth0   10.20.16.3                     dm0102          NO
dm01db02: eth0       10.10.10.2                     dm01db02        YES
dm01db02:
dm01db02: ================================================================================
dm01db02: ASR
dm01db02: ================================================================================
dm01db02: Destination     Hostname        Rule Type  DBMCLI Port Level   Community Version
dm01db02: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
dm01db02: 10.10.10.2     dm01db02          1               8162 minor   LocalMSV3user       3
dm01db02: 192.168.10.1  oragwserver                   YES   162           public
dm01db02: 192.168.10.1  oragwserver        2                162 minor     public      2c
dm01db02:
dm01db02: [OK] Exactly one OS and ILOM IP coincide (192.168.10.1)
dm01db02: * Validation:
dm01db02: [OK] OS Test event sent to 192.168.10.1:162
dm01db02: [OK] ILOM Test event sent to 192.168.10.1:162
dm01db02:
dm01db02: Time elapsed script execution: 00:04:46
dm01db02: Zipfile /var/log/asrexacheck/asrexacheck_dm01db02_20180409T154251.zip of the outputs created
dm01db03: asrexacheck version: 4.0
dm01db03: Current time: 2018-04-09 10:42:51
dm01db03:
dm01db03: ================================================================================
dm01db03: SYSTEM CONFIGURATION
dm01db03: ================================================================================
dm01db03: Product name           : Exadata X5-2
dm01db03: Product serial         : AK003XXXXX
dm01db03: Component name         : ORACLE SERVER X5-2
dm01db03: Component serial       : 1547XX10XX
dm01db03: Engineered System type : Exadata
dm01db03: Server type            : COMPUTE
dm01db03: Image version          : 18.1.4.0.0.180125.3
dm01db03: OS IP Address          : 10.10.10.3
dm01db03: OS Hostname            : dm01db03
dm01db03: OS version             : 4.1.12-94.7.8.el6uek.x86_64
dm01db03: ILOM IP Address        : 10.10.10.16
dm01db03: ILOM Hostname          : dm01db03-ilom
dm01db03: ILOM version           : 4.0.0.24
dm01db03:
dm01db03: ================================================================================
dm01db03: NETWORK
dm01db03: ================================================================================
dm01db03: Interface  IP Address                      Hostname        Route   fromIP
dm01db03: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
dm01db03: bondeth0   10.20.16.5                     dm0103          NO
dm01db03: eth0       10.10.10.3                     dm01db03        YES
dm01db03:
dm01db03: ================================================================================
dm01db03: ASR
dm01db03: ================================================================================
dm01db03: Destination     Hostname        Rule Type  DBMCLI Port Level   Community Version
dm01db03: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
dm01db03: 10.10.10.3     dm01db03          1               8162 minor   LocalMSV3user       3
dm01db03: 192.168.10.1  oragwserver                   YES   162           public
dm01db03: 192.168.10.1  oragwserver        2                162 minor     public      2c
dm01db03:
dm01db03: [OK] Exactly one OS and ILOM IP coincide (192.168.10.1)
dm01db03: * Validation:
dm01db03: [OK] OS Test event sent to 192.168.10.1:162
dm01db03: [OK] ILOM Test event sent to 192.168.10.1:162
dm01db03:
dm01db03: Time elapsed script execution: 00:04:43
dm01db03: Zipfile /var/log/asrexacheck/asrexacheck_dm01db03_20180409T154251.zip of the outputs created

• At the end of successful ASRexacheck execution, you will receive 2 Test ASR emails, one from Management host and another from Management ILOM host. If you don't receive the Test ASR emails then you must work with Oracle ASR Management team to resolve the ASR Manager issue.

• You can also execute ASRexacheck on Exadata Storage cells using below commands.

[root@dm01cel01 ~]# /opt/oracle.SupportTools/asrexacheck
[root@dm01db01 ~]# dcli -g ~/cell_group -l root '/opt/oracle.SupportTools/asrexacheck'

Conclusion

In this article we have learned how to verify ASR deployment using ASRexacheck utility. ASR is not a monitoring tool, it is designed to open ASR when specific hardware faults are detected on Oracle products that are qualified for ASR. Oracle Exadata Database Machine is a qualified production for Oracle ASR.