Script to perform a regular scheduled healthcheck of a live GoldenGate configuration

Automation is a key part of every IT administrator's job role. When you perform the same task again and again, after a while it becomes monotonous. From a company's perspective this is not the most efficient use of their human capital especially when things can be automated and computers can be used to perform such tasks. Once the systems are live in production, the teams work round the clock to ensure they are up all the time. A lot of proactive work is done to identify any faults that might jeopardize the availability of the systems. Ensuring the availability of a GoldenGate replication requires regular monitoring and healthchecks. We saw in the previous recipe how to perform a manual healthcheck of a GoldenGate configuration. In this recipe, we will see how to automate some of the checks so that the report are sent in e-mail regularly.

Getting ready

The script provided in this recipe requires the following...