• Article Type: General
• Product: Verde
• Product Version: 2

The Oracle alert log can be useful for getting additional information beyond what is registered in vlog/server.log. This log is located at $ORACLE_HOME/../../admin/verde1/bdump/alert_verde1.log and can be read only by the oracle user, not by the verde user.

For example, if the harvester failed, and neither harvester_client.log nor server.log help to get a clue, review this log, maybe you will see that Oracle was shut down in the middle of the process.

For example:

Sun Oct 19 19:21:30 2014
ARC1: Media recovery disabled
Sun Oct 19 19:21:55 2014
ARC0: Media recovery disabled
Sun Oct 19 19:22:30 2014
ARC1: Media recovery disabled
Sun Oct 19 19:23:30 2014
ARC1: Media recovery disabled
Sun Oct 19 19:24:30 2014
ARC1: Media recovery disabled
Sun Oct 19 19:24:46 2014
Shutting down instance: further logons disabled ****** Oracle Shutdown Message *****
Shutting down instance (immediate)
License high water mark = 13
Sun Oct 19 19:24:46 2014
ALTER DATABASE CLOSE NORMAL
Sun Oct 19 19:24:46 2014
SMON: disabling tx recovery
SMON: disabling cache recovery
Sun Oct 19 19:24:46 2014
Shutting down archive processes
Archiving is disabled
Sun Oct 19 19:24:46 2014
ARCH shutting down
ARC0: Archival stopped
Sun Oct 19 19:24:46 2014
ARCH shutting down
ARC1: Archival stopped
Sun Oct 19 19:24:46 2014
Thread 1 closed at log sequence 47
Successful close of redo thread 1
Sun Oct 19 19:24:46 2014
Completed: ALTER DATABASE CLOSE NORMAL
Sun Oct 19 19:24:46 2014
ALTER DATABASE DISMOUNT
Completed: ALTER DATABASE DISMOUNT
ARCH: Archiving is disabled
Shutting down archive processes
Archiving is disabled
Archive process shutdown avoided: 0 active
ARCH: Archiving is disabled
Shutting down archive processes
Archiving is disabled
Archive process shutdown avoided: 0 active
Sun Oct 19 19:37:51 2014
(etc)

• Article last edited: 10/8/2013