Data … as usual

When you are using adrci to interface adr you can easily purge incidents, health monitor reports etc…

… but you can’t purge problems:

adrci> help purge
Usage: PURGE [[-i  |  ] |
[-age  [-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 ]: Users can specify the purging policy either to all
the diagnostic data or the specified type. The data older than
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

No trace of problem purge 😦

If you want to delete those problems, you have to know about a SQL interface directly in adrci. (The “tables” represents XML files mappings, these files are located in the repository).

So, I paste above a little example of a DELETE in adrci interface:

adrci> delete from problem;
 3 Rows Deleted
 adrci> commit;
 Transaction Committed
 adrci> show problem
  
 ADR Home = /u01/app/oracle/diag/rdbms/racdb/racdb1:
 ***********************************************************
 0 rows fetched

Be careful, if you delete problems, you will loose the problem memory of your database.