DBCollect/Usage

Usage

Verify correct install

# Show version
dbcollect -V

# Show usage
dbcollect -h

# Update to last version (if the system has https access to github)
dbcollect --update

Run with default settings

# Default run
dbcollect

# If you get Error DBC-020 (zipfile already exists), you can overwrite the old zipfile:
dbcollect -o
# or
dbcollect --overwrite

Resolve AWR reporting issues

dbcollect checks for prior AWR usage to make sure it will not trigger Oracle license violations ( More info)

If you get Error [DBC-E021] No AWR or Statspack detected:

# If you are sure you have Diagnostics Pack license:
dbcollect --force-awr

# If you want to ignore databases without AWR usage:
dbcollect --ignore-awr

# If the problem databases are not important, try excluding them:
dbcollect --exclude inst1,inst2

Explanation of all options

help

--help or -h

Shows usage (list of all arguments)

version

--version or -V

Shows detailed version, build and copyright details

debug

--debug or -D enables debugging. This will result in more logging (sometimes dumping unhandled Python exceptions and traces.

Even without this option, debug info is written to the dbcollect logfile for troubleshooting purposes.

quiet

--quiet or -q hides most normal terminal output (except errors). Useful for scripted runs (such as with DBCollect/Ansible)

overwrite

--overwrite | -o

Overwrites the previous dbcollect ZIP file if it exsts.