Controlling the Scope of Checks

A.2 Controlling the Scope of Checks

Use the list of commands in this section to control the scope of checks.

Syntax

[-b] 
[-p] 
[-m] 
[-u –o pre] 
[-u –o post] 
[-clusternodes nodes] 
[-failedchecks previous_result]
[-nordbms]
[-dbnames db_names] 
[-dbnone] 
[-dball] 
[-localonly] 
[-cells cells]
[-ibswitches switches] 
[-profile profile] 
[-excludeprofile profile] 
[-check check_id] 
[-excludecheck check_id] 
[-skip_usr_def_checks]

Parameters

Table A-2 Scope of Checks

Command	Description
`-b`	Runs only the best practice checks. Does not run the recommended patch checks.
`-p`	Runs only the patch checks.
`-m`	Excludes the checks for Maximum Availability Architecture (MAA) scorecards.
`-u –o pre`	Runs the pre-upgrade checks for Oracle Clusterware and database.
`-u –o post`	Runs the post-upgrade checks for Oracle Clusterware and database.
`-clusternodes nodes`	Specify a comma-delimited list of node names to run only on a subset of nodes.
`-failedchecks previous_result`	Runs only checks from the presious_result, which had failed.
`-nordbms`	Runs Oracle Grid Infrastructure checks only in environments with no Oracle Database checks performed.
`-dbnames db_names`	Specify a comma-delimited list of database names to run only on a subset of databases.
`-dbnone`	Does not prompt for database selection and skips all the database checks.
`-dball`	Does not prompt for database selection and runs the database checks on all databases discovered on the system.
`-localonly`	Runs only on the local node.
`-cells cells`	Specify a comma-delimited list of storage server names to run the checks only on a subset of storage servers.
`-ibswitches switches`	Specify a comma-delimited list of InfiniBand switch names to run the checks only on a subset of InfiniBand switches.
`-profile profile`	Specify a comma-delimited list of profiles to run only the checks in the specified profiles.
`-excludeprofile profile`	Specify a comma-delimited list of profiles to exclude the checks in the specified profiles.
`-check check_id`	Specify a comma-delimited list of check IDs to run only the checks specified in the list check IDs.
`-excludecheck check_id`	Specify a comma-delimited list of check IDs to exclude the checks specified in the list of check IDs.
`-skip_usr_def_checks`	Does not run the checks specified in the user-defined `xml` file.

Parent topic: Oracle ORAchk and Oracle EXAchk Command-Line Options