Owner's Manual

Contents 3
Contents
1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Required Documentation for Deploying
the Dell Oracle Database
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Terminology Used in this Document
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Getting Help
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Dell Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Performance and Stability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Enterprise Linux exhibits poor performance
and instability; excessive use of swap space . . . . 9
Unknown interface-type warning appears in the
Oracle alert file; poor system performance . . . . . 9
Enterprise Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
The Enterprise Manager agent fails . . . . . . . . 10
Oracle Clustered File System2 (OCFS2) . . . . . . . . . 10
System hangs while mounting or
unmounting OCFS partitions . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Network Configuration Assistant (NETCA) . . . . . . . 11
NETCA fails, resulting in database
creation errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
NETCA cannot configure remote nodes
or a RAW device validation error occurs
while running DBCA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11