Easy/Fast Navigation with aliases in profiles

Because I am a lazy guy who wants to do everything fast I really like to have aliases in user profiles. When I login on a box different version of Oracle Homes and multiple ORacle databases on the same machine I feel naked without aliases. I am a guy who wants to tail alert log/any related log  while I am doing something and not having an alias for tailing not just slows me down it also makes me really annoyed in 5 seconds time. At current job I suffered for the first week and I immediately requested to have a “standard” profile and got acception from my manager and I wrote/modified the one below. Most of the ideas are taken from perfect blog entry of John Hallas, The use of functions in a .profile file . I needed to modify because we have 10G databases with 11GR2 GI for ASM and some more modifications for RAC. ( Probably most of you already realized that I am good with modifying a code but rubbish with my own, old habit from university never liked programming and needed to pass some classes:))

Here are the two functions I added to the profiles. First one (setsid) sets env settings of the database listed in /etc/oratab,  second one (showsid) shows the aliases you can use after you call setsid. Couple of things to bear in mind,  setsid assumes that you have $ORACLE_BASE which is hardcoded /u01/app/oracle in the script and it also assumes that you use ORACLE_SID for alert log directories. oradiag and ldiag aliases are default set because we use 11G diag home on all the boxes. You may also need to check ora_version variable it may not suit to your settings. (OFA is needed for everything run without modification)

SETSID

setsid ()
{
unset ORATAB
unset ORACLE_BASE
unset ORACLE_HOME
unset ORACLE_SID
ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle
ORATAB=/etc/oratab
if tty -s
then
        if [ -f $ORATAB ]
        then
                line_count=`cat $ORATAB | grep -v ^# | sed 's/:.*//' | wc -l`
                # check that the oratab file has some contents
                if [ $line_count -ge 1 ]
                        then
                        sid_selected=0
                        while [ $sid_selected -eq 0 ]
                        do
                                sid_available=0
                                for i in `cat $ORATAB | grep -v ^# | sed 's/:.*//'`
                                        do
                                        sid_available=`expr $sid_available + 1`
                                        sid[$sid_available]=$i
                                        done
                                # get the required SID
                                case ${SETSID_AUTO:-""} in
                                        YES) # Auto set use 1st entry
                                        sid_selected=1 ;;
                                        *)
                                        i=1
                                        while [ $i -le $sid_available ]
                                        do
                                                printf "%2d- %10s\n" $i ${sid[$i]}
                                                i=`expr $i + 1`
                                        done
                                        echo ""
                                        echo "Select the Oracle SID with given number [1]:"
                                        read entry
                                        if [ -n "$entry" ]
                                        then
                                                entry=`echo "$entry" | sed "s/[a-z,A-Z]//g"`
                                                if [ -n "$entry" ]
                                                then
                                                        entry=`expr $entry`
                                                        if [ $entry -ge 1 ] && [ $entry -le $sid_available ]
                                                        then
                                                                sid_selected=$entry
                                                        fi
                                                fi
                                                else
                                                sid_selected=1
                                        fi
                                esac
                        done
                        #
                        # SET ORACLE_SID
                        #
                        export ORACLE_SID=${sid[$sid_selected]}
                        echo "Your profile configured for $ORACLE_SID with information below:"
                        echo ""
			export PATH=/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/home/bin
                        unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH
                        ORAENV_ASK=NO
                        . oraenv
                        alias oh="cd ${ORACLE_HOME}"
                        ora_version=`echo $ORACLE_HOME | awk 'BEGIN {FS="/"} ; {print $6}' | awk 'BEGIN {FS="."} ; {print $1}'`
                        if [ $ora_version -lt 11 ]
			then
                        alias bdump="cd /u01/app/oracle/admin/${ORACLE_SID//[!A-Za-z]}/bdump"
                        alias talert="tail -f /u01/app/oracle/admin/${ORACLE_SID//[!A-Za-z]}/bdump/alert_${ORACLE_SID}.log"
			alias valert="view /u01/app/oracle/admin/${ORACLE_SID//[!A-Za-z]}/bdump/alert_${ORACLE_SID}.log"
                        fi
                        if [ $ora_version -ge  11 ]
                        then
			export ORACLE_UNQNAME=$ORACLE_SID
                        alias talert='tail -f $ORACLE_BASE/`adrci exec="show homes" | grep $ORACLE_SID`/trace/alert_${ORACLE_SID}.log'
			alias valert='view $ORACLE_BASE/`adrci exec="show homes" | grep $ORACLE_SID`/trace/alert_${ORACLE_SID}.log'
                        alias alasm='cd $ORACLE_BASE/`adrci exec="show homes" | grep ASM`/trace'
                        alias bdump='cd $ORACLE_BASE/`adrci exec="show homes" | grep $ORACLE_SID`/trace'
                        fi
                        alias pmon='ps -fu oracle | grep pmon | grep -v grep'
			alias tns='ps -fu oracle | grep tns | grep -v grep'
                        alias oradiag='cd $ORACLE_BASE/diag/'
			alias ldiag='cd $ORACLE_BASE/diag/tnslsnr/'
			unset ORAENV_ASK
                        echo
                        #
                        #GIVE MESSAGE
                        #
                        else
                        echo "No entries in $ORATAB. no environment set"
                fi
        fi
fi
}

SHOWSID

showsid()
{
echo ""
echo "ORACLE_SID=$ORACLE_SID"
echo "ORACLE_BASE=$ORACLE_BASE"
echo "ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_HOME"
echo "alias oh=cd ${ORACLE_HOME}"
echo "alias pmon='ps -fu oracle | grep pmon | grep -v grep'"
echo "alias tns='ps -fu oracle | grep tns | grep -v grep'"
ora_version=`echo $ORACLE_HOME | awk 'BEGIN {FS="/"} ; {print $6}' | awk 'BEGIN {FS="."} ; {print $1}'`
if [ $ora_version -ge  11 ]
then
echo "alias talert='tail -f $ORACLE_BASE/`adrci exec="show homes" | grep $ORACLE_SID`/trace/alert_${ORACLE_SID}.log'"
echo "alias valert='view $ORACLE_BASE/`adrci exec="show homes" | grep $ORACLE_SID`/trace/alert_${ORACLE_SID}.log'"
echo "alias bdump='cd $ORACLE_BASE/`adrci exec="show homes" | grep $ORACLE_SID`/trace'"
echo "alias alasm='cd $ORACLE_BASE/`adrci exec="show homes" | grep ASM`/trace'"
echo "alias ldiag='cd $ORACLE_BASE/diag/tnslsnr/'"
echo "alias oradiag='cd $ORACLE_BASE/diag/'"
fi
if [ $ora_version -lt 11 ]
then
echo "alias bdump=cd /u01/app/oracle/admin/${ORACLE_SID//[!A-Za-z]}/bdump"
echo "alias talert=tail -f \"/u01/app/oracle/admin/${ORACLE_SID//[!A-Za-z]}/bdump/alert_${ORACLE_SID}.log\""
echo "alias valert=\"view /u01/app/oracle/admin/${ORACLE_SID//[!A-Za-z]}/bdump/alert_${ORACLE_SID}.log\""
echo "alias ldiag='cd $ORACLE_BASE/diag/tnslsnr/'"
fi
echo ""
}

Usage : (no setting when showsid runs for the first time)

gundogar@SNOW:~#cosarac1
oracle@192.168.1.111's password:
Last login: Sun Sep 12 14:31:24 2010 from cosarac1.oel.com
[oracle@cosarac1 ~]$ showsid

ORACLE_SID=
ORACLE_BASE=
ORACLE_HOME=
alias oh=cd
alias pmon='ps -fu oracle | grep pmon | grep -v grep'
alias tns='ps -fu oracle | grep tns | grep -v grep'
-bash: [: -ge: unary operator expected
-bash: [: -lt: unary operator expected

[oracle@cosarac1 ~]$ setsid
 1-      +ASM1
 2-    oracos1

Select the Oracle SID with given number [1]:
2
Your profile configured for oracos1 with information below:

The Oracle base for ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1 is /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1

[oracle@cosarac1 ~]$ showsid

ORACLE_SID=oracos1
ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1
ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1
alias oh=cd /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1
alias pmon='ps -fu oracle | grep pmon | grep -v grep'
alias tns='ps -fu oracle | grep tns | grep -v grep'
alias bdump=cd /u01/app/oracle/admin/oracos/bdump
alias talert=tail -f "/u01/app/oracle/admin/oracos/bdump/alert_oracos1.log"
alias valert="view /u01/app/oracle/admin/oracos/bdump/alert_oracos1.log"

[oracle@cosarac1 ~]$ bdump
[oracle@cosarac1 bdump]$ pwd
/u01/app/oracle/admin/oracos/bdump
[oracle@cosarac1 bdump]$ pmpn
-bash: pmpn: command not found
[oracle@cosarac1 bdump]$ pmon
oracle    2860     1  0 Sep10 ?        00:00:21 asm_pmon_+ASM1
oracle   19925     1  0 Sep12 ?        00:00:12 ora_pmon_oracos1
[oracle@cosarac1 bdump]$ oh
[oracle@cosarac1 db_1]$ pwd
/u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1
[oracle@cosarac1 db_1]$ tns
oracle    3287     1  0 Sep10 ?        00:00:05 /u01/crs/oracle/product/11.2.0/grid/bin/tnslsnr LISTENER_SCAN1 -inherit
oracle   26861     1  0 Sep13 ?        00:00:06 /u01/crs/oracle/product/11.2.0/grid/bin/tnslsnr LISTENER -inherit
[oracle@cosarac1 db_1]$ talert
Tue Sep 14 18:25:07 2010
Thread 1 advanced to log sequence 70 (LGWR switch)
  Current log# 2 seq# 70 mem# 0: +DATA/oracos/onlinelog/group_2.257.729388121
  Current log# 2 seq# 70 mem# 1: +FRA/oracos/onlinelog/group_2.258.729388123

Believe or not at the end of a year this settings will save lots of your time when you start using them .

If you have problems with formatting please contact me so I can send you the txt file.