Oracle Remote Diagnostic Agent (RDA)

Remote Diagnostic Agent (RDA) is a set of command-line diagnostic scripts that are executed by an engine written in the Perl programming language.
RDA is a good tool to gather detailed information about an Oracle environment. The data gathered or the output is used to aid in problem diagnosisand also also for seeing the overall system configuration.

Oracle Support encourages the use of RDA because it provides a detail picture of the customer's environment. . RDA is designed to be as unobtrusive as possible; it does not modify Oracle or OS systems in any way. It collects useful data for diagnostic or to see the overall picture.

OS Platforms that are supported
IBM AIX
Intel Linux (Oracle Enterprise, RedHat, and SuSE)
HP-UX (10.* and 11.*)
HP Tru64 Linux PPC
Mac OS X/Darwin
Sequent Dynix/Ptx
Sun Solaris (2.6 - 2.10)
Windows XP Professional
Windows 2000 Workstation and Server
Windows 2003 Server
HP OpenVMS Alpha 7.3-2 and above
HP OpenVMS Itanium
ZLinux


Oracle Products that are supported
Oracle RDBMS Server (Standard and Enterprise Editions)
Oracle RAC Cluster (Single/Multiple Nodes, Automatic Storage Management, Oracle Cluster File System, Data Guard)
Oracle Application Server (iAS 1.0.2.x/9.0.x/10.1.2.x/10.1.3.x,10.1.4.x,
HTTP Server,WebCache,J2EE/OC4J)
Oracle Oracle Data Integrator
Oracle Management Server and Intelligent Agent (Grid Server, Agent Server, DB Control) OLAP Products (Express Server, Financial Analyzer, and Demand Planning Server)
Oracle Developer (Forms and Reports)
Oracle JDBC/PRO *C/ODBC and other development client related information
Oracle Collaboration Suites (Email Server,Calendar,Discussions,Content Services,Workspaces,WebClient, and Wireless)
Oracle Identity Management (Internet Directory and COREid)
Oracle Networking products
Oracle Ebusiness Suite 11i and 12
Oracle Portal Software 7.0, 7.2, and 7.3
Oracle Retail (Retek)

for more information on how to download,install and run RDA,please see metalink Note: 330363.1