What Is Express Checkup?

Most Oracle Exadata health check tools are built for support engineers working one system at a time. Express Checkup is built for the person responsible for the entire fleet. It is a lightweight, agentless command-line tool that connects to every Exadata system in your organisation simultaneously, runs a structured set of diagnostic checks, and returns a single consolidated report — in minutes, not hours. No agents to install. No dedicated monitoring host required. One command, full picture.

Express Checkup

Local Host

Oracle Exadata Fleet

express_
checkup

agentless

parallel

  • edbm01 2 DB · 3 cells
  • edbm02 4 DB · 6 cells
  • emtest 2 DB · 3 cells
  • edbmuat 4 DB · 6 cells
  • e1 2 DB · 3 cells

Consolidated health report

  • Hardware faults
  • ASM disks
  • Storage cells
  • ILOM / FMA open
  • MD-RAID
  • Network fabric
  • Clusterware
  • Software
  • Flash / PMEM
Agentless Parallel Centrally managed
Express Checkup

Local Host

express_checkup

agentless · parallel

Oracle Exadata Fleet

  • SSH edbm01 2 DB · 3 cells
  • SSH edbm02 4 DB · 6 cells
  • SSH emtest 2 DB · 3 cells
  • SSH edbmuat 4 DB · 6 cells
  • SSH e1 2 DB · 3 cells

Consolidated health report

  • Hardware faults
  • ASM disks
  • ILOM / FMA open
  • MD-RAID
  • Clusterware
  • Software
  • Storage cells
  • Network fabric
  • Flash / PMEM
Agentless Parallel Centrally managed

Who Express Checkup Is Built For

For System Administrators Managing an Exadata Fleet

An Exadata fleet spans hardware generations, software versions, and network segments. Checking each system manually, one at a time, is not scalable. Express Checkup runs all health check sessions in parallel — total time equals the time of the single largest system. One run, every system.

Target Systems May 2026
  • edbm01 DB: 2 · cells: 3 ok
  • edbm02 DB: 4 · cells: 6 ok
  • emtest DB: 2 · cells: 3 2
  • edbmuat DB: 4 · cells: 6 ok
  • e1 DB: 2 · cells: 3 ok
  • e2 DB: 2 · cells: 3 ok

Completed in

4m 12s

Systems checked

6 of 6

Issues found

2

One run. Every system.
Minutes, not hours.

All health check sessions run in parallel. Total time equals the time for the largest single system in your fleet.

  • No agents, no monitoring host needed
  • One external SSH connection per system
  • Works alongside existing MS/ILOM alerts
  • Catches what built-in alerting misses

For Support Engineers During Incidents

When an Exadata system shows symptoms, the priority is rapid, accurate diagnosis. Express Checkup reaches every node via a single external SSH entry point — the same path you already use every day — and returns a structured fault summary in minutes, without separate credentials or access paths for each node.

Fast answers when it matters most.

Express Checkup reaches every node in the affected system via a single external SSH entry point — the same connection path you use for daily administration.

  • Hardware + storage + software in one run
  • Cascading checks go deeper on anomalies
  • No new firewall rules or ports required
  • ILOM, FMA, ASM, cells — one report
Exachk Express Checkup
  • Install / update req. No install needed
  • One system Entire fleet
  • 1+ hr run ~4 min run
  • Sequential nodes Parallel systems
  • Complex output Focused report

For Scheduled Infrastructure Site Surveys

Regular site surveys are standard practice — but time-consuming when done manually across a large fleet. Express Checkup turns a fleet-wide survey into a single command. The output is structured, terminal-readable, and ready to archive or share without reformatting.

Site Survey Q2 2026
System HW Faults ASM / Storage Network Links Software Result
edbm01 none healthy all up OK PASS
edbm02 none healthy all up OK PASS
emtest 1 fault healthy all up OK REVIEW
edbmuat none healthy 1 link down OK REVIEW
e1 none healthy all up OK PASS
e2 none healthy all up OK PASS

Survey time

5 min 03 sec

Systems

6

Nodes checked

38

Alerts

2

Site Survey Q2 2026
EDBM01 PASS

HW Faults

none

ASM / Storage

healthy

Network Links

all up

Software

OK

EDBM02 PASS

HW Faults

none

ASM / Storage

healthy

Network Links

all up

Software

OK

EMTEST REVIEW

HW Faults

1 fault

ASM / Storage

healthy

Network Links

all up

Software

OK

EDBMUAT REVIEW

HW Faults

none

ASM / Storage

healthy

Network Links

1 link down

Software

OK

E1 PASS

HW Faults

none

ASM / Storage

healthy

Network Links

all up

Software

OK

E2 PASS

HW Faults

none

ASM / Storage

healthy

Network Links

all up

Software

OK

Survey Time

5m 03s

Systems

6

Nodes Checked

38

Alerts

2

For Post-Event Fleet Recovery

After a wide-scale event — datacenter power cut, cooling failure, network outage — the question is never just "are systems back online?" It is "is everything still healthy?" Express Checkup gives you a fleet-wide answer before users report problems or silent damage compounds into data loss.

Post-Event Check May 2026
Event Datacenter power cut
Power restored 09:14
Express Checkup 09:18
  • edbm01 all nodes healthy
  • edbm02 all nodes healthy
  • emtest celadm01: HDD fault action
  • edbmuat all nodes healthy
  • e1 all nodes healthy
  • e2 sw-ib02: FMA fault action

Know the full picture before users tell you something is wrong.

After any wide-scale event, one command scans the entire Exadata fleet and surfaces hardware faults, ASM disk issues, and storage cell anomalies that the event may have introduced — before they escalate into incidents.

  • Full fleet check in minutes
  • Hardware + software + storage covered
  • Meets post-event site survey protocol

For Organisations Without Central Monitoring Infrastructure

Enterprise monitoring platforms require significant investment — dedicated hosts, agents, firewall rules, and ongoing maintenance. Express Checkup fills the health check gap without adding infrastructure. It runs from any Linux host with SSH access to your Exadata DB nodes. No dedicated server. No new firewall rules. No agents on target systems.

Full Exadata health checking.
With what you already have.

Express Checkup needs only what a systems administrator already has: a Linux workstation or VM, and SSH access to your Exadata DB node #1.

  • No dedicated monitoring server
  • No agents installed on Exadata nodes
  • No new firewall rules or network ports
  • No Oracle Enterprise Manager required
  • Single binary + one config file

What you need to run it

  • Any Linux x86-64 host

    PC / server / VM

  • RHEL / OL / Alma / Rocky 8+

    Ubuntu 22.04 / 24.04

  • SSH access to DB node #1

    Your existing admin path