TFA Collector 3.2 - Simplified Diagnostic Gathering Across All Cluster Nodes (Doc ID 1513912.1)

All:

TFA Collector 3.2 was released today and is now available for download via MOS Note: 1513912.1. We encourage you upgrade at your earliest opportunity to take advantage of the enhancements in bug fixes in this release.  Here is what is new with TFA 3.2

    1) First version of the Log Analyzer.

    2) Addition of –notrim for diagnostic collections.

    3) Support for TFA on zLinux.

    4) Collection of ExaWatcher data.

    5) Sundiag collection

    6) Aging of TFA log files restricting maximum size.

    7) Multiple performance enhancements

    8) Critical Bug fixes

For those new to TFA, here is a brief summary of the tool:

Trace File Analyzer Collector (TFA) is a diagnostic collection utility to simplify diagnostic data collection on Oracle Clusterware/Grid Infrastructure, RAC and Single Instance Database systems.  TFA is similar to the diagcollection utility packaged with Oracle Clusterware in the fact that it collects and packages diagnostic data however TFA is MUCH more powerful than diagcollection with its ability to centralize and automate the collection of diagnostic information.  TFA provides the following key benefits: