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I like CLIs. I really like CLIs. Especially when 90% of my previous and quite long blog post can be summarized with only 3 commands 🙂
It was about creating restricted read only access for users, using a role and a named credential. But EM CLI can greatly simplify this task. To better understand what follows, please read the previous post explaining how to Create READ ONLY + AWR access on database targets in Oracle Enterprise Manager 12.1.0.5 first.
I currently work on a 4-node cluster with 12.1.0.2 Grid Infrastructure installed, hosting several 11g and 12c databases. As it is a cold failover cluster, databases are not RAC databases and are active on only one node at a time.
Thoses databases share the same action script. The “start” section of this action script is quite complex and also manages the relocation of the database target on Enterprise Manager 12.1.0.5. But this specific task is time-consuming (approximately 30 seconds for 1 target) and is not always successful. Which means I often have to relocate some targets in Enterprise Manager by hand.
Recently, 2 nodes of our cluster did not survive a major storage outage. After their reboot, the databases restarted (quite slowly) according to the action script. But target relocation did not work as expected for all targets and I had to manually fix the mess.
When I first started as a DBA two years ago, the colleague in charge of my training thought that I would rather use several GUIs to complete most of the tasks. He said it was because of my age … But he quickly found out that I was more comfortable with CLIs.
For this very first blog post, I would like to participate in the ODC Appreciation Day and talk about a tool I really recommend : EM CLI.
Floo Bar 