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EM 13C: Core Files Generated Under <AGENT_INST>/sysman/emd Location When Database Metric Collected Using Perl Script Like "%perlBin%/perl %scriptsDir%/db/XXXX.pl" (Doc ID 3017232.1)

Last updated on MAY 06, 2024

Applies to:

Enterprise Manager Base Platform - Version 13.5.0.0.0 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

Huge Number of core files generated under agent <AGENT_INST>/sysman/emd location very frequently.

Content inside core files shown as below 

cat  <AGENT_INST>sysman/emd/file core.XXXX
core.XXXX: ELF 64-bit LSB core file x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), SVR4-style, from '<AGENT_HOME>/perl/bin/perl <AGENT_BASE>', real uid: 201, effective uid: 201, real gid: 203, effective gid: 203, execfn: '<AGENT_HOME>/perl/bin/perl', platform: 'x86_64'

Error stack showing in agent log : <AGENT_INST>/sysman/log/gcagent.log

2024-04-05 07:23:06,576 [181:4E385C40:GC.Executor.3 (oracle_database:<DB_NAME>:segment_advisor_count) (oracle_database:<DB_NAME>:segment_advisor_count:segment_advisor_count)] WARN - In ResponseHandler.reportError, see Command exited abnormally without any output for segment_advisor_count

oracle.sysman.emSDK.agent.fetchlet.exception.FetchletException: Command exited abnormally without any output
at oracle.sysman.gcagent.addon.fetchlet.osfetchlet.BaseOSFetchlet.getOSMetric(BaseOSFetchlet.java:1078)
at oracle.sysman.gcagent.addon.fetchlet.osfetchlet.BaseOSFetchlet.getMetric(BaseOSFetchlet.java:478)
at oracle.sysman.gcagent.target.interaction.execution.FetchletFactory.getMetric(FetchletFactory.java:466)
at oracle.sysman.gcagent.target.interaction.execution.ExecuteTask.executeQueryDescriptor(ExecuteTask.java:1338)

Manual execution of getmetric failing with below error 

<AGENT_HOME>/bin/emctl getmetric agent<DB_NAME>,oracle_database,archFull
Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c Release 5
Copyright (c) 1996, 2021 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
EMD getmetric error: Command exited abnormally without any output

<AGENT_HOME>/bin/emctl getmetric agent<DB_NAME>,oracle_database,segment_advisor_count
Oracle Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 13c Release 5
Copyright (c) 1996, 2021 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
EMD getmetric error: Command exited abnormally without any output

 

Cause

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