When the question of what starts OSWatcher (OSW) on Exadata was raised at a client site and I thought I’d take a quick look. It took me a little longer than I expected to work out the detail and therefore it seems worth sharing.
If you’re simply looking to change the “snapshot interval”, “archive retention” or “compression command” then /opt/oracle.cellos/validations/init.d/oswatcher is what you need to modify and you’ll find a line with ./startOSW...(read more)
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