Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 SP1 for Oracle RAC Administrator"s Guide (5900-1512, April 2011)

Table 3-1
List of log files
DescriptionLocationLog file
Contains errors that occurred
during Oracle RAC installation. It
clarifies the nature of the error
and when it occurred during the
installation.
Note: Verify if there are any
installation errors logged in this
file, since they may prove to be
critical errors. If there are any
installation problems, send this
file to Tech Support for debugging
the issue.
$ORACLE_BASE\
/oraInventory/logs/\
installActionsdate_time.log
Oracle installation
error log
Contains messages and errors
reported by database operations.
For Oracle RAC 10g:
$ORACLE_HOME/admin/db_name/\
bdump/alert_instance_name.log
For Oracle RAC 11g:
$ORACLE_BASE/diag/rdbms/db_name/\
instance_name/trace/alert_instance_name.log
The log path is configurable.
Oracle alert log
Contains all actions performed by
the high availability daemon had.
Note: Verify if there are any CVM
or PrivNIC errors logged in this
file, since they may prove to be
critical errors.
/var/VRTSvcs/log/engine_A.log
VCS engine log file
The cmdlog file contains the list
of CVM commands.
For more information on
collecting important CVM logs:
See “Collecting important CVM
logs” on page 168.
/var/adm/vx/cmdlog
/var/adm/vx/ddl.log
/var/adm/vx/translog
/var/adm/vx/dmpevents.log
/var/VRTSvcs/log/engine_A.log
CVM log files
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