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Health Checks for Every Industry

Maintaining the efficiency of your Oracle database investment doesn’t have to be a daunting process. At Adjacent Solutions, we can help you improve your technology environment with a detailed health check. Routine health checks are a cost-effective way to evaluate your technology environment before performance issues or exposure to threats affect your organization. Health checks require the expertise of experienced DBAs and can be time-consuming for in-house administrators. Failure to perform routine health checks can lead to ongoing organizational challenges, including security concerns.

Regardless of how many databases you are running or where your database is stored (on-premises, datacenter, hybrid, or cloud), we can assist. Adjacent Solutions can run a database health assessment of your current environment and prepare strategies that ensure your system is efficient. We strive to ensure your enterprise operates at peak performance expectations and desired business requirements. Benefits from thorough assessments performed by qualified database administrators (DBAs) include:

Risk Mitigation

Review of the hardware, infrastructure, and application configuration to identify potential security risks to the environment.

Improved Performance Opportunities

Identify potential new upgrades or process improvements that could benefit your business.

Expert Consulting

Extensive knowledge of Oracle best practices that improve system performance and internal efficiency.

Database Protection

Backup and recovery plans to reduce downtime & mitigate risk in cases of system failure.

Adjacent’s Comprehensive Database Health Check

With your organizations’ unique business processes in mind, our DBAs provide a comprehensive “end-to-end” analysis of your enterprise. We identify vulnerabilities in your mission-critical systems. After assessing the results, we create actionable plans based off the data shown in the health check document. Using proven methodologies to build each strategy, we can help you optimize your database without losing critical downtime. The core areas that we test are:

Operating System Configuration

We review the operating system version, configuration files and patch levels to provide recommendations on how a clients’ environment should be set up for enhanced performance, specific to their business operations. This assessment will include information on:

  • Operating system updates for improved performance
  • OS user limits & account(s) that are expiring
  • TP configuration
  • Oracle startup settings and script availability
  • Memory configuration and use of advanced memory options
  • YUM and automatic updates settings
  • Oracle System Configuration

    We review the operating system version, configuration files and patch levels to provide recommendations on how a clients’ environment should be set up for enhanced performance, specific to their business operations. This assessment will include information on:

  • Operating system updates for improved performance
  • OS user limits & account(s) that are expiring
  • NTP configuration
  • Oracle startup settings and script availability
  • Memory configuration and use of advanced memory options
  • -YUM and automatic updates settings
  • Oracle Space Management

    We scan your Oracle database to verify integrity for all data blocks, files & objects and ensure there are adequate sizing, allocation, and memory for tablespaces. In this core area we also:

  • Identify high utilization of database objects
  • Identify fragmented and inefficient object storage
  • Provide recommendations on capacity planning
  • Check if ASM is utilized and properly configured
  • Check id relocation/renaming of Datafiles is needed
  • Backup Configuration & Strategy

    We review your backup scripts and backup & recovery strategies to ensure your current configuration is complete and available for database and application recovery. We also:

  • Confirm retention policy is set
  • Verify crontab and scheduled jobs are configured and enables
  • Check status of Recycle Bin for dropped objects
  • General Database Maintenance

    We review the configuration of Oracle system accounts and assess if the database and server is configured and monitored. We are also:

  • Identify application, development, and personal accounts
  • Provide CIS Oracle benchmark score for Connection and Login restrictions
  • Identify account privileges and provide CIS Oracle Benchmark score for Access and Authorization restrictions
  • Provide CIS best practices for logging and auditing
  • Check if Advanced features are utilized (i.e. Transparent Data Encryption)
  • System Performance

    We analyze the performance of you current Operating System’s I/O, CPU, and memory, identify DB workloads and busy periods and review current alert logs for system issues. We also:

  • Provide ADDM reports for recommendations for improvement
  • Provide AWR reports for deep analysis system performance
  • Oracle Application Framework
  • Oracle Forms/Reports
  • Capture database resource consumption information
  • Check if there are significant database read wait times
  • Health Check Monitoring
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    We Are Your Action Plan for a Healthy Oracle Environment

    While our team works streamlines your personalized approach, our consultants can advise you regarding inquiries about our additional services. With our Oracle database health check offering, we bring value through delivering in-depth professional and managed services solutions. These offerings are available to help you effectively optimize your technology investment and achieve key business goals. Our “end-to-end” services are available in any Oracle environment, industry-wide, to reduce cost, mitigate risk, and leverage functionality to achieve business goals. Some of the additional services we offer include: 

    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
    Business Process Reengineering
    Data-driven discovery to deliver workflow & process improvement strategy unique to organization.
    Disaster Recovery
    Scalable, secure solutions for backup/restore and database failure.
    License Advisory & Management
    Open, transparent, and definitive assessment of an organization's compliance position.
    Performance Tuning
    Simplify the process of accessing and altering information in your database.
    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Adjacent Solutions
    Platform Migration
    Developing new platform strategies, executing system moves, and consolidating data centers.
    Platform Upgrades
    Stay current with latest features, security updates and performance improvements.
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    How We Can Bring Value

    Performing regular database health checks is only the start to providing insight to your critical enterprise systems. At Adjacent Solutions, we can build upon our health check recommendations and develop a strategy for your goals. We leverage Oracle services and solutions to help you maximize the results of your technology investment. Contact us today to setup your database health check.

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