Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Remote Diagnostic Agent (RDA)


1. Remote Diagnostic Agent (RDA) is a command-line diagnostic tool that is executed by an engine written in the Perl programming language. RDA provides a unified package of support diagnostics tools and preventive solutions. The data captured provides Oracle Support with a comprehensive picture of the customer's environment which aids in problem diagnosis.

2. Oracle document: Remote Diagnostic Agent (RDA) 4 - Getting Started [ID 314422.1]

3. RDA supports different platforms: Windows, UNIX, Linux

4. RDA supports lots of Oracle products: Oracle RDBMS Server (Standard and Enterprise Editions), etc

5. RDA download: a zip file for specific platform

6. Installation on Solaris: unzip

7. run RDA
--check perl version: perl -V
--rda.sh - Use this command if Perl is not available.
--rda.pl - Use this command if Perl is available.
--./rda.pl -S: set up setup.cfg
--run RDA report: ./rda.pl -v
  --ask for password for system to connect to the database


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