Path: news.easynews.com!easynews!news.he.net!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!newsfeed.stanford.edu!sn-xit-01!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: "Van Messner" Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Tier II/III troubleshooting tips? Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2002 16:21:05 -0500 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: References: <67b5acd7.0202020932.e64913e@posting.google.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 X-Complaints-To: newsabuse@supernews.com Lines: 23 Xref: easynews comp.databases.oracle.server:133697 X-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2002 14:28:59 MST (news.easynews.com) It would be good if you could check to see whether the space for archived log files was filling up. The DBAs at your site can probably suggest specific things that would help them avoid problems they've had in the past. "David Jackson" wrote in message news:67b5acd7.0202020932.e64913e@posting.google.com... > Good day -- > I do a lot 2nd/3rd shift Unix and application support ( I generaly > have root access). It would be helpful to me if I had some trouble > shooting guildlines that could be used before paging YOU at 03:00. > > In other words what can I do beyond checking that the "ora" processes > are running? "tnsping" is one that comes to mind also? > How about log files or checking database space problems, oracle backup > (failure/completion), status of oracle jobs? > > > Thanks for your advice. > > David Jackson