1. Database Upgrade Guide
  2. Using AutoUpgrade for Oracle Database Upgrades
  3. How to Override Default Fixups

How to Override Default Fixups

You can use the RUNFIX column entry to disable automated fixups, except in cases where disabling the fixup violates security or Oracle policy.

The default fixups that are part of the AutoUpgrade procedure are generated during the Analyze processing mode stage. You can modify the generated fixups list to disable automatic fixups, so that you can run your own fixups.

The sequence of steps is as follows:

  1. Run the AutoUpgrade utility in Analyze mode
  2. Open and edit the sid_checklist.cfg file that is generated during Analyze mode, so that the fixups you want to do manually are disabled from running automatically.
  3. In your most recent AutoUpgrade configuration file, under your local parameters list for the job on which you want to suppress the automatic fixup, find the parameter sid.checklist, where sid is the system identifier (SID) of the database on which you want to suppress an automatic fixup. By default, AutoUpgrade uses the most recent generated file. If you want to point it to a different configuration file, then edit the parameter to provide a path to the checklist.cfg file that you have edited.

Note:

AutoUpgrade resume always uses the most recent sid_checklist.config file.

For example, if you have two generated AutoUpgrade configuration files, /logdir/100/sid_checklist.cfg, and /logdir/101/sid_checklist.cfg, then you must either specify a direct path to the configuration file that you want to use, or edit the most recent file, which in this case is the sid_checklist.cfg file in /logdir/101/

Suppose you have corrected an issue manually that you found, and want to have AutoUpgrade to use a fixup file with different checks. If you want to direct AutoUpgrade to use a different file, then you can specify the file path directly in the checklist.cfg file by using the prefix.checklist parameter, where prefix is the identifier for the database. For example: prefix.checklist=logdir/repress-standard/sid_checklist.cfg

If the AutoUpgrade utility finds an error level database condition, and there is not a fixup available for it, or you have manually disabled the available fixup, then the AutoUpgrade job that contains the database with the error condition stops.

Use the examples that follow to assist you with this procedure.

Example 3-12 Starting Up the AutoUpgrade Utility in Analyze Mode

java -jar autoupgrade.jar -config config.cfg –mode analyze

Example 3-13 Creating a New Checklist for a Configuration File

In this scenario, you are running AutoUpgrade checks on an Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2) database home, in preparation for an upgrade to Oracle Database 18c, with release update 8. You start with the following configuration file, called config.cfg: 

global.autoupg_log_dir=/home/oracle/autoupg
upg1.sid=db11204
upg1.source_home=/databases/ee/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1
upg1.target_home=/databases/ee/product/18x/dbhome_1
upg1.target_base=/databases
upg1.target_version=18.8.0

You then complete the following steps:

  1. Run the command java -jar autoupgrade.jar -config config.cfg -mode analyze

    The command produces a checklist file in the following path: 

    /home/oracle/autoupg/db11204/100/prechecks/db11204_checklist.cfg

  2. Move the checklist file to another location. For example:

    oracle@example: $ cd $PRECHECKS
oracle@example: $ pwd
/home/oracle/autoupg/db11204/100/prechecks
oracle@example: $ mv ./db11204_checklist.cfg /tmp

  3. Use a text editor to open up the file, and look for the checks AMD_EXISTS and EM_PRESENT.

    For example: 

      
[SID] [db11204]
==========================================
[container] [db11204]
==========================================
[checkname] AMD_EXISTS
[stage] PRECHECKS
[fixup_available] YES
[runfix] YES
[severity] WARNING
----------------------------------------------------
[checkname] DICTIONARY_STATS
[stage] PRECHECKS
[fixup_available] YES
[runfix] YES
[severity] RECOMMEND
----------------------------------------------------
[checkname] EM_PRESENT
[stage] PRECHECKS
[fixup_available] YES
[runfix] YES
[severity] WARNING
----------------------------------------------------
...
[truncated]
  4. Change the values for checks AMD_EXISTS and EM_PRESENT from yes to no.

    For example

    
[SID] [db11204]
==========================================
[container] [db11204]
==========================================
[checkname] AMD_EXISTS
[stage] PRECHECKS
[fixup_available] YES
[runfix] NO
[severity] WARNING
----------------------------------------------------
[checkname] DICTIONARY_STATS
[stage] PRECHECKS
[fixup_available] YES
[runfix] YES
[severity] RECOMMEND
----------------------------------------------------
[checkname] EM_PRESENT
[stage] PRECHECKS
[fixup_available] YES
[runfix] NO
[severity] WARNING
----------------------------------------------------
...
[truncated]

    Notice that with both parameters, the fixup_available value is YES. That means that there is a fixup available, which you choose not to run. If no fixup is available, then the value for runfix is N/A.

  5. Change the location where AutoUpgrade looks for the configuration file by updating the path for the parameter checklist. To do this, add an entry to the configuration file with the checklist pointer to the directory where your edited file resides. For example:

    
global.autoupg_log_dir=/home/oracle/autoupg
upg1.sid=db11204
upg1.source_home=/databases/ee/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1
upg1.target_home=/databases/ee/product/18x/dbhome_1
upg1.target_base=/databases
upg1.target_version=18.8.0
upg1.checklist=/home/oracle/db11204_checklist.cfg

  6. Run the fixups using the configuration file that you have edited and moved. For example:

    java -jar autoupgrade.jar -config config.cfg -mode fixups

    Autoupgrade uses the configuration file in /home/oracle to run the AutoUpgrade utility.

Example 3-14 Find and Edit checklist.cfg

The Analyze mode generates a fixup file with the file name checklist.cfg. Navigate to the file, where DATABASE_LOGS_DIR is the value set for the AutoUpgrade log_dir parameter of the database, job-id refers to the job identifier that the AutoUpgrade utility generates, and sid is the system identifier for the database on which you want to suppress automatic fixups: 

DATABASE_LOGS_DIR/job-id/prechecks/sid_checklist.cfg

Open the checklist.cfg file with a text editor. The following is an example of the checklist.cfg file for the database with the SID DB11204: 

[dbname]          [DB11204]
==========================================
[container]          [DB11204]
==========================================
[checkname]          AMD_EXISTS
[stage]              PRECHECKS
[fixup_available]    YES
[runfix]             YES
[severity]           WARNING
----------------------------------------------------

[checkname]          DEPEND_USR_TABLES
[stage]              POSTCHECKS
[fixup_available]    YES
[runfix]             YES
[severity]           WARNING
----------------------------------------------------

[checkname]          DICTIONARY_STATS
[stage]              PRECHECKS
[fixup_available]    YES
[runfix]             YES
[severity]           RECOMMEND
----------------------------------------------------

[checkname]          EM_PRESENT
[stage]              PRECHECKS
[fixup_available]    YES
[runfix]             YES
[severity]           WARNING
----------------------------------------------------
.
.
.

The file has a hierarchical structure. It starts with the database name, and the container name for which the entries of the checklist.cfg apply. The file contains a series of fixup checks that are applied automatically. For each entry, there are 5 relevant values parameters:

Parameter Description

[checkname]

Name of the database check

[stage]

AutoUpgrade stage in which the check is performed. It can be either prechecks, or post checks.

[fixup available]

Availability of an automatic fixup. This parameter value is either YES (an automatic fixup is available), or NO (an automatic fixup is not available).

runfix

Run status for the fixup. This parameter takes one of two values:

YES: Run the fixup.

NO: Do not run the fixup.

severity

Class of severity of the issue that the automatic fixup addresses.

For each fixup that you want to perform manually, change the [runfix] parameter value from YES to NO.

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