Re: Backups failing

  • From: Oliver <ofabelo@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 08:32:07 +0100

Same error today, initialization failure in status of the job and in the
error log, "Step aborted because agent went down".



2011/8/29 Oliver <ofabelo@xxxxxxxxx>

> This is the output:
>
> Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Database Control Release 10.2.0.1.0
> Copyright (c) 1996, 2005 Oracle Corporation.  All rights reserved.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Agent Version     : 10.1.0.4.1
> OMS Version       : 10.1.0.4.0
> Protocol Version  : 10.1.0.2.0
> Agent Home        : /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1/xxx_ora10g
> Agent binaries    : /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1
> Agent Process ID  : 19051
> Parent Process ID : 18114
> Agent URL         : http://xxx:3938/emd/main
> Started at        : 2011-08-29 12:09:00
> Started by user   : oracle
> Last Reload       : 2011-08-29 12:14:14
> Last successful upload                       : 2011-08-29 12:14:23
> Total Megabytes of XML files uploaded so far :     4.40
> Number of XML files pending upload           :        0
> Size of XML files pending upload(MB)         :     0.00
> Available disk space on upload filesystem    :    87.14%
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Agent is Running and Ready
>
> I see it all ok, isn't it?
> Jobs are many hours for seeing it has failed ... I will look tomorrow, but
> I see that it doesn't writing in the backup dir ...
>
>
> 2011/8/29 Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx>
>
>> Hi
>>
>> what is the full output on the target machine of emctl status agent?
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Oliver <ofabelo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> When I do "emctl upload agent" step, it shows:
>>>
>>> EMD upload error: uploadXMLFiles skipped :: OMS version not checked yet..
>>>
>>> Jus the error of that page ...
>>>
>>>
>>> 2011/8/29 Oliver <ofabelo@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>>> Yes, I did crosscheck in rman ...
>>>> I'm going to do the steps of:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://jhdba.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/clearing-an-enterprise-manager-agent-that-fails-to-upload/
>>>>
>>>> Is it ok?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks beforehand.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2011/8/29 Pavel <ocp.pauler@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>
>>>>> Hi
>>>>> Did you crosscheck after delete some backups? Clear state don't remove
>>>>> created jobs.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>  Pavel.
>>>>>
>>>>> 2011/8/29 Oliver <ofabelo@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks, but I'm sorry, I'm a newbie, the dba is on vacation and I have
>>>>>> to look it because I'm the person with more knowledges of Oracle.
>>>>>> I've tried stop and start agent/dbconsole but it is failing again. I
>>>>>> understand your commands, except remove all uploaded files :-?
>>>>>> Clear state or remove uploads files remove created jobs?
>>>>>> Ah, one thing, I think that it started to fail when it surpassed the
>>>>>> flash recovery quota. I had 300GB, and it had 330GB written, in 
>>>>>> destination
>>>>>> of backup dir. I deleted some backups and I will increase to 500GB the 
>>>>>> flash
>>>>>> recovery quota (I've not restarted database, is it necessary?)
>>>>>> Thanks beforehand.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 2011/8/29 Pavel <ocp.pauler@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi
>>>>>>> Could you try these one:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>  Issue emctl stop agent, emctl clear state agent, emctl start agent.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> And I think remove all uploads files.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>>>  Pavel.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 2011/8/29 Oliver <ofabelo@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>> backups of EM are failing suddenly. It shows "Initialization
>>>>>>>> failure" in status and error log shows "Step aborted because agent went
>>>>>>>> down". The error comes after many hours, I see that it doesn't write 
>>>>>>>> nothing
>>>>>>>> in the oputut dir of the backup.
>>>>>>>> If I do "$ tail -f emagent.trc", it shows some warns and the errors:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 2011-08-29 09:43:25 Thread-4136277696 ERROR TargetManager: TIMEOUT
>>>>>>>> when compute dynamic properties for target ora10g.localhost.localdomain
>>>>>>>> 2011-08-29 09:43:25 Thread-4136277696 ERROR TargetManager: target
>>>>>>>> {ora10g.localhost.localdomain, oracle_database} is broken: cannot 
>>>>>>>> compute
>>>>>>>> dynamic properties in time.
>>>>>>>> 2011-08-29 09:43:25 Thread-4136277696 WARN  collector: the column
>>>>>>>> name DiskActivityavwait in this condition does not exist
>>>>>>>> 2011-08-29 09:43:25 Thread-4119632784 ERROR upload: Error in
>>>>>>>> uploadXMLFiles.  Trying again in 60.00 seconds.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It is 10.2.0.1.0 on Linux. Someone can help me?
>>>>>>>> Thanks beforehand.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Cheers...
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Niall Litchfield
>> Oracle DBA
>> http://www.orawin.info
>>
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