Oracle Checklist for DBA

. Daily Procedures




A. Verify all instances are up



Make sure the database is available. Log into each instance and run daily reports or test scripts. Some sites may wish to automate this.
Optional implementation: use Oracle Enterprise Manager's 'probe' event.




B. Look for any new alert log entries



. Connect to each managed system.


. Use 'telnet' or comparable program.


. For each managed instance, go to the background dump destination, usually $ORACLE_BASE/ <SID>/bdump. Make sure to look under each managed database's SID.


. At the prompt, use the Unix 'tail' command to see the alert_ <SID>.log, or otherwise examine the most recent entries in the file.


. If any ORA-errors have appeared since the previous time you looked, note them in the Database Recovery Log and investigate each one. The recovery log is in <file>.






C. Verify DBSNMP is running



1. Log on to each managed machine to check for the 'dbsnmp' process. For Unix: at the command line, type ps -ef | grep dbsnmp. There should be two dbsnmp processes running. If not, restart DBSNMP. (Some sites have this disabled on purpose; if this is the case, remove this item from your list, or change it to "verify that DBSNMP is NOT running".)



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