Re: anyone have a decent purge script for 11g diag directories

From: <jan.benjamins_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2008 02:15:54 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <e0f8738f-ae13-4e2a-8e79-369dc4aae2bf@k1g2000prb.googlegroups.com>


On Nov 14, 1:37 am, hpuxrac <johnbhur..._at_sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Not only do we have the standard .trc files there are now .trm files
> and probably various other things.
>
> Maybe I am missing some basic concept like some parameter to set or
> utility to use so that 11g databases will clean out and delete stuff
> after a certain date in the diag structure.
>
> Or perhaps oracle has that on their to-do list but hasn't gotten
> around to that yet.
>
> The idea of collecting and keeping all the diagnostic stuff around
> together is fine if only there is some method behind the madness of
> getting rid of stuff that you don't want anymore.
>
> Ideas or clarification or working 11g linux scripts would be
> appreciated!  Even some words of warning about things not to get rid
> of are fine.
>
> Thanks John

The new adrci command line tool could do this, look at the purge command:

$ adrci

ADRCI: Release 11.1.0.7.0 - Production on Sat Nov 15 11:16:48 2008

Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle. All rights reserved.

ADR base = "/app/oracle"
adrci> help purge

  Usage: PURGE [[-i <id1> | <id1> <id2>] |

               [-age <mins> [-type ALERT|INCIDENT|TRACE|CDUMP|HM| UTSCDMP]]]:   Purpose: Purge the diagnostic data in the current ADR home. If no

           option is specified, the default purging policy will be used.

  Options:
    [-i id1 | id1 id2]: Users can input a single incident ID, or a     range of incidents to purge.

    [-age <mins>]: Users can specify the purging policy either to all     the diagnostic data or the specified type. The data older than <mins>

    ago will be purged

    [-type ALERT|INCIDENT|TRACE|CDUMP|HM|UTSCDMP]: Users can specify what type of

    data to be purged.

  Examples:
    purge
    purge -i 123 456
    purge -age 60 -type incident

adrci> Received on Sat Nov 15 2008 - 04:15:54 CST

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