Release 2 note

This page describes Release 2 of DMK.

The current version of release 2 supports Linux.

Probably it works with Unix, but it is not tested.

Windows does definitely not work with the current version of Release 2!

Support for other OS is planned for a later version. Until then, use the latest version of DMK release 1.

This document still contains information for Windows, applicable in a future version. Just ignore it for the moment.

Release 2 is a re-design of the former DMK.

• Oracle's oratab will be unchanged. DMK related information is stored in ora_homes and ora_sids

  • It is recommended to undo the non-Oracle changes of existing installations

• Configuration is stored in

  • a configuration file with dmk-defaults (will always be replaced during updates)

    dmk.conf.default

  • a local configuration file for changed defaults and server-specific settings

    dmk.conf.local

  • a configuration file per ORACLE_SID

    $cda/$ORACLE_SID.conf

• Automatic detection of environmental changes

  • new ORACLE_HOME

  • changed ORACLE_HOME

  • new/removed ORACLE_SID

  • new/removed PDB's

• New mechanism to detect Perl for startup of DMK (usually no configuration required)

• New script to show status of

  • running Oracle processes

  • instance

  • Clusterware (crsctl)

• Support for Grid-Infrastructure / RAC databases