7 Important CellCLI Commands for Exadata DBA

Reference:

http://www.dbas-oracle.com/2013/05/7-Important-CellCLI-Commands-for-Exadata-DBA.html

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Now you are an Exadata DBA and I suppose you know Exadata basic Components and Features, your next responsibility is to manage cell Servers. This includes checking health of cell server and maintaining them. Exadata has a very good Health Check Tool Called as Exachk, DBA can use it. Oracle introduced a Cell Command Line Interface know as cellCLI for Database Administrator to interact with cell servers.

Before starting CellCLI Exadata DBA commands let's first understand Storage structure of cell Server. All the storage is presented to Cell Servers, Thy are provided to database server but as ASM Disks only. First of all there is a physical disk which is provided to cell server as LUN, Exadata S/W makes Cell disk on top of it. Now each cell disk is divided in to three grid disks data, reco, system_dg. Grid disks are provide to ASM storage for use.

The relation between physical disk, LUN, Cell Disk and Grid disk is given below:

From the above diagram it's clear to work on Exadata Cell level we need to use CellCLI and sometimes Linux commands.

Here, I am listing some most common use of CellCLI command for Exatadata DBA's to manage cell Servers.

1. Check Cell Status: This command is used to check cell status, This command will list all basic information about a cell like Name of cell, Status, status of all services cellsrv, ms and rs etc.

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