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Contents
1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
Required Documentation for Deploying  
the Dell Oracle Database
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Terminology Used in this Document
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Getting Help
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Dell Support. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
2 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
Performance and Stability. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
Enterprise Linux exhibits poor performance  
and instability; excessive use of swap space  . . . .   9
Unknown interface-type warning appears in the  
Oracle alert file; poor system performance  . . . . .   9
Enterprise Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   10
The Enterprise Manager agent fails . . . . . . . .    10
Oracle Clustered File System2 (OCFS2) . . . . . . . . .   10
System hangs while mounting or  
unmounting OCFS partitions . . . . . . . . . . . .    10
Network Configuration Assistant (NETCA) . . . . . . .   11
NETCA fails, resulting in database  
creation errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .    11
NETCA cannot configure remote nodes  
or a RAW device validation error occurs  
while running DBCA  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .    11