Year: 2015

EM12c Agent – java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space

After an AIX 7.1 server reboot, there was one agent which did not started. The command emctl start agent resulted in a java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space message. In the agent subdirectory some dumpfiles were created: -rw-r—– 1 oracle dba 291373 Oct 19 11:00 javacore.20151019.110002.14876844.0002.txt -rw-r—– 1 oracle dba 22182281 Oct 19 11:00 heapdump.20151019.110002.14876844.0001.phd -rw-r–r– 1 oracle dba 167408 Oct 19 11:00 Snap.20151019.110002.14876844.0003.trc First I took a look in the agent logfiles to gather more information. /u00/app/oracle/product/agent12c/agent_inst/sysman/log/emdctlj.log 2015-10-19 10:59:11,711 [1:F7DA781F:main-16449708] INFO – EmdCtl Timezone = Europe/Zurich 2015-10-19 10:59:11,884 [1:F288756D:main-11600120] INFO – EmdCtl Timezone = Europe/Zurich 2015-10-19 10:59:13,584 [1:2CF29A0A] INFO – Disconnecting: client terminus 2015-10-19 10:59:13,585 [1:2CF29A0A] INFO – stdout: Status agent Failure:unable to connect to http server at https://srvaix111.mvn.ch:3874/emd/lifecycle/main/. [peer not aut henticated]…

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cloud.oracle.com – Create a Storage Container for a Backup in the Cloud

Why to use the Oracle Backup  Cloud storage? During the instance creation process – the full deployed instance, not for the virtual machine – you can select if you want to store your database local or in the cloud – or both. The benefit to store a instance backup by RMAN in the cloud? Storage redundancy, easy access, full RMAN integration and with a service price of $33 / TB / Month it’s a real storage option. Here is the step where you can select the backup storage option. Information Gathering Before you can use this storage, you have to configure a storage container first. This can be done via REST command for example by a tool like curl. In…

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Lost Disk after DBaaS Restart via Cloud Service Console

I have created a DBaaS instance three weeks ago, and now it was time to attach new storage in the Oracle Compute Cloud Service  to have additional disk space for some Trivadis tools. But after a reboot with a mouse-click in the DBaaS Cloud Service Console, the disk was lost and had to be re-attached. The procedure to add additional storage is documented in this Oracle tutorial: http://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/tutorials/obe/cloud/dbaas/OU/IntroDBaaS/AddStorageDBaaSInstance/AddStorageDBaaSInstance.html Creating additional  Storage in the Oracle Compute Cloud Service In the Create Storage Volume menu, I have created a new storage volume of 10GB and attached it to my running DBaaS instance called TrivadisExPerf. OS Verfication After some minutes waiting, I logged in on the database server to verify the operation. The…

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