Oracle 18c Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) – Part 1

Obviously I don't want to talk and repeat the same about Autonomous Database, many experts already said much on this. I then decided to pick a topic which really helps DBAs, Administrators and finally to the organization. I was really fascinated about Oracle 18c autonomous health framework concepts and decided to do a presentation on this topics.

Working in a complex and huge Oracle environment, I knew where most of our energy and time is spend, as a DBA or system administrator. We always focus on avoiding run time availability and performance issues. In a complex and critical environment, every other day, you will face a new challenge and you must be on your toes as DBA during the business hours.

For DBA, most importantly, we need to ensure the database availability, at the same time, ensure its deliver the same performance 24×7. Imagine, if you get stuck with latches, instance crash, node crash, someone changes the binaries permission/ownership, you will spend hours and hours to fix and find the root cause of the issues.

With 18c autonomous health framework, its easy to avoid and auto fix run-time availability and performance issues. There are 8 components that makes this framework. Though some of them are present in 12.2, but, all these are configured automatically upon 18c configuration and run 24×7 in daemon mode. Also, 3 of the components have machine learning capabilities. to fix issue automatically.

I will start discussing about 8 components in next series. Stay tune for more on this topic.