Thursday, March 13, 2008

Remote Diagnostinc Agent(RDA) Patch for 12.0.3

What is RDA?
Remote Diagnostic Agent (RDA) is a set of command-line diagnostic scripts that are executed by an engine written in the Perl programming language.RDA gather detailed information about an Oracle environment. Output of this RDA scripts is useful to see the whole system configuration.

Why use RDA?
Oracle strongly encourages the use of Remote Diagnostic Agent (RDA) diagnostics collectionsbecause it provides a comprehensive picture of the Oracle Apps environment. Providing RDA diagnostic output is really helpful when you log a TAR. The output of this RDA script isminimize the problem resolution .RDA collections are essential for the following types of tars:
· Performance issues
· Installation/configuration issues
· ORA-600, ORA-7445, and ORA-3113 errors
· Upgrade, migration, and linking issues
· Database and Development API issues
· Forms and reports issues
· Development / Discoverer Server issues
· Oracle Application Server / Fusion Middleware issues
· Other corrective issues

To get all this we need to apply below patches in the environment

1>R12.IZU.A.DELTA.3 PAtch no. 6265820( main patch) following is the prerequiste.
2>IZU Splice Preparation Tasks for R12.IZU Splice Preparation Tasks before upgrading to R12.IZU.A.Delta.3 .Patch no 6280873.

Above both patch need to apply in 12.0.3 to run the RDA. Please read the readme.txt before applying any patch
Refer MEtalink id's 167000.1, 314422.1
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