Oracle – RMAN 11g List Failure

The 11g version of RMAN has a useful feature for diagnosing and repairing any failures.

Find any database failures:

RMAN> list failure;

Determine manual or automatic repair:

RMAN> advise failure;

From the output of the advise, try to manually fix the failure. If this fails to work, then try the repair command:

RMAN> repair failure;

Further Reading

Oracle® Database Backup and Recovery User’s Guide

AIX – Error when installing Fusion Middleware 11.1.1.5.0 on AIX 7.1

If you get the below error message when going to run the installer for fusion middleware 11.1.1.5.0:

Checking Operating System Certification:
Expected result : One of 5300.08, 6100.02
Actual Result: 7100.00
Check Complete: The overall result of this check is Failed <<<<
Problem : This Oracle Software is not certified on the current operating system.
Recommendation: Make sure you are installing the software on the correct platform.
-Checking recommended operating system patches:
Check complete. The overall result of this check is : Not executed

Then you can either ignore the error by pressing continue, or you can quit and run the installer with the following:

./runInstaller -ignoreSysPrereqs