How To Generate Oswatcher Report in Linux?

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OSWatcher is a tool that collects information from commands like top, ps, vmstat, netstat, iostat, and meminfo. It records data files and automatically looks for issues on the OS level, helping to determine the root cause.

Follow the steps to generate an OSWatcher report in Linux and use OSWatcher Black Box Analyzer (OSWBBA):

  1. Download OSWatcher from Oracle website
  2. Copy the downloaded file to your target installation directory
  3. Run the command sudo tar xvf oswb2025.tar
  4. Use OSWBBA to:
    A. To analyze the collected statistics
    B. Identify areas of issue concern
    C. Save the file to like a report file
    D. Generate HTML report

Download OSWatcher: From Oracle website

oswbb2025.tar

Install OSWatcher

Copy the OSWatcher tar file to your target location and install it and then untar it.
[root@rac1 share]# tar xvf oswbb2025.tar

Create private.net file for monitoring
vi private.net

Add the below files and then save and exit.

Linux Example:

echo “zzz ***”date
traceroute -r -F rac1-priv.kumar.com
traceroute -r -F rac2-priv.kumar.com

rm locks/lock.file

[root@rac1 oswbb]# chown -R oracle:oinstall private.net
[root@rac1 oswbb]# chmod -R 777 private.net
[root@rac1 oswbb]# ls -ltr private.net
[root@rac1 oswbb]#

Start OS Watcher

./startOSWbb.sh

./startOSWbb.sh 60 20 gzip

./startOSWbb.sh 60 20 gzip /u01/oswbb/archive

./startOSWbb.sh 60 48 NONE /u01/oswbb/archive

nohup ./startOSWbb.sh 60 12 &

[root@rac1 ~]# cd /u01/oswbb
[root@rac1 oswbb]# ls -ltr startOSWbb.sh
[root@rac1 oswbb]#
[root@rac1 oswbb]# nohup ./startOSWbb.sh 50 72 gzip &
[root@rac1 oswbb]#

Verify OSW is running or not
[root@rac1 archive]# ps -ef | grep OSWatcher | grep -v grep
[root@rac1 archive]#

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