October 18, 2019

Oracle OSWatcher installation steps

Oracle OSWatcher Black Box (OSWbb) collects and archives operating system and network metrics that you can use to
diagnose performance issues. OSWbb operates as a set of background processes on the server and gathers data on a
regular basis, invoking such Unix utilities as vmstat, netstat, iostat, and top.


1. Download oswatcher from oracle support.

Datapatch Fails in Oracle 12c on Windows – Root Cause and Step-by-Step Fix

   Recently, while applying a patch on an Oracle 12c (12.2.0.1) database on Windows, I ran into a frustrating issue: datapatch kept failin...