Alert Log Monitoring script via ADRCI

Before I start to write about the blog series in my mind which will be the base to my first presentation again in my mind, I would like to share simple alert log monitoring with adrci.

At first I was completely against Diagnostics Dest idea but after a bit of searching and learning new tips tricks of adrci command like I think I am a big fan of diagnostics dest. Below is the script I wrote to monitor alert log hourly and with a daily summary. Script is self explanatory, the only thing it does is gets ADRCI homes put them in a bash array and grep the ORA-, TNS- errors for the last hour or last day. It is not rocket since and it is based on a simple command which can also be added to your profiles as an alias.

--last day
adrci exec="set home ${adrci_home}; show alert -p \\\"message_text like '%ORA-%' and originating_timestamp > systimestamp-1\\\"" 
--last hour 
adrci exec="set home ${adrci_home}; show alert -p \\\"message_text like '%ORA-%' and originating_timestamp > systimestamp-1/24\\\"" 

I am pretty sure this could be shortened but I did not bother to shorten it so I leave it to your imagination:)

I did not add listener checks to hourly checks but to daily summary, because there can be many which will cause you to get mail every hour.

Good part of using ADRCI and hourly checks is you do not need to edit the file to get rid of the error because you will never see that alert again in the next hour slot.

Script will send the output to the files and read those files back to the mail content and I am sure there may be better way to do this.

Complete script

#################################################
###### ALERT LOG CHECKING VIA ADRCI #############
#################################################
# Author : Coskan Gundogar
# Version Date: 02/12/2010
# Usage :  
# To run for last 24 hours - ./check_alert.sh D
# To run for last hour - ./check_alert.sh 
# Edit variables below for moving between servers 
# Changes To the Script 
#

export ORACLE_SID=+ASM1
export ORACLE_HOME=/u01/crs/oracle/product/11.2.0/grid/
export PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/bin
DAILY_LOG=/home/oracle/bin/alert_log_check_daily.txt
HOURLY_LOG=/home/oracle/bin/alert_log_check_hourly.txt
MAIL_SUBJ="PRD:WARNING HOST: " 
MAIL_RECIPIENT="your_dba_group@your_company.com"

HOST_NAME=`hostname -a`


if [ "$1" = "D" ]
then

		############################################
		###############DAILY CHECKS ################
		############DBMS AND ASM CHECK##############
		############################################

		adrci_homes=( $(adrci exec="show homes" | grep -e rdbms -e asm))

		echo '####################################################' > $DAILY_LOG 
		echo '####### ALERT LOG OUTPUT FOR LAST 24 HOURS #########' >> $DAILY_LOG
		echo '####################################################' >> $DAILY_LOG 
		echo ''  >> $DAILY_LOG 
		echo ''  >> $DAILY_LOG 
		echo ''  >> $DAILY_LOG 

		for adrci_home in ${adrci_homes[@]}
		do 
			echo $adrci_home' Alert Log' >> $DAILY_LOG 
			adrci exec="set home ${adrci_home}; show alert -p \\\"message_text like '%ORA-%' and originating_timestamp > systimestamp-1\\\"" -term >> $DAILY_LOG 
		done


		############################################
		############## DAILY CHECKS ################
		############# LISTENER  CHECK###############
		############################################


		adrci_lsnr_homes=( $(adrci exec="show homes" | grep -e tnslsnr))

		echo ''  >> $DAILY_LOG 
		echo ''  >> $DAILY_LOG 
		echo ''  >> $DAILY_LOG 
		echo '####################################################' >> $DAILY_LOG 
		echo '###### LISTENER LOG OUTPUT FOR LAST 24 Hours #######' >> $DAILY_LOG
		echo '####################################################' >> $DAILY_LOG 
		echo ''  >> $DAILY_LOG 
		echo ''  >> $DAILY_LOG 
		echo ''  >> $DAILY_LOG 


		for adrci_lsnr_home in ${adrci_lsnr_homes[@]}
		do 
			echo $adrci_lsnr_home' Listener Log' >> $DAILY_LOG 
			adrci exec="set home ${adrci_lsnr_home}; show alert -p \\\"message_text like '%TNS-%' and originating_timestamp > systimestamp-1\\\""  -term >> $DAILY_LOG 
		done
		

		num_errors=`grep -c -e 'TNS' -e 'ORA' $DAILY_LOG`
		if [ $num_errors != 0 ]
		then 
		MAIL_SUBJ=$MAIL_SUBJ$HOST_NAME" Errors Found in Daily Alert Summary"
		mailx -s "$MAIL_SUBJ" $MAIL_RECIPIENT  $HOURLY_LOG 
		echo ''  >> $HOURLY_LOG 
		echo ''  >> $HOURLY_LOG 
		echo '####################################################' >> $HOURLY_LOG 
		echo '######### ALERT LOG OUTPUT FOR LAST HOUR ###########' >> $HOURLY_LOG
		echo '####################################################' >> $HOURLY_LOG 
		echo ''  >> $HOURLY_LOG 
		echo ''  >> $HOURLY_LOG 
		echo ''  >> $HOURLY_LOG 

		for adrci_home in ${adrci_homes[@]}
		do 
			echo $adrci_home' Alert Log' >> $HOURLY_LOG 
			adrci exec="set home ${adrci_home}; show alert -p \\\"message_text like '%ORA-%' and originating_timestamp > systimestamp-1/24\\\"" -term >> $HOURLY_LOG 
		done


		num_errors=`grep -c -e 'TNS' -e 'ORA' $HOURLY_LOG`
		if [ $num_errors != 0 ]
		then 
		MAIL_SUBJ=$MAIL_SUBJ$HOST_NAME" Errors Found in Hourly Alert Summary"
		mailx -s "$MAIL_SUBJ" $MAIL_RECIPIENT < $HOURLY_LOG
		fi

fi