Preparing system information for Customer Support
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To assist BMC Customer Support, collect as much of the following applicable information as possible. This information will help a customer support representative understand the system configuration you are working with, and can expedite a solution.
System configuration
To describe your configuration, answer the following questions:
| System information | Answers/Notes |
|---|---|
| What Oracle KM version are you installing? | |
| Are you trying to complete a new installation, or an upgrade of an existing installation? | |
| What Oracle version are you using? | |
| What is the type and version of the operating system of the Oracle host machine? | |
| What version of PATROL Agent is in use? | |
| What type of PATROL Console is in use (NT, UNIX)? | |
| Is the Oracle instance up and running? | |
| Are you configuring this from CMA, PATROL Console, or using a PCM rulesets and scripts? |
Product-specific information
The following section is a sample of what you might provide in the product-specific information area:
Oracle permissions
Answer the following questions about the user permissions:
| Permission information | Answers/Notes |
|---|---|
| Does the PATROL user have read access to the Oracle Instance? | |
| IF monitoring an ASM Instance, is the Patrol OS User main group the same group as the Oracle user? | |
Have you verified that the files in $PATROL_HOME/../oracle directory are recursively readable and writable? |
General information
Before contacting Customer Support, gather the following general information .
Login to the host machine with the Patrol OS Account and execute the following commands to get the command output:
ps –ef | grep PatrolAgent
ps –ef | grep pmon
ps –ef |grep mrp
id
groups
For any case related to a collector or parameter specific case:
- Collect the debug information for the respective collector.
- Save screenshots if the parameters or collectors are in an alarm state.
- If there is no PATROL Console available in the environment:
dump_hist –param_noreg <parameter name> -annotate >/tmp/dump_hist.txt
PCM Rule sets for instance configuration
For troubleshooting instance configuration issues via the PCM Rule Sets, collect the following information:
- Patrol Agent version
- Pconfig file output
BatchConfig<port_no>.logfile (located at../ Patrol3/oracle/conf)
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