Questionnaire for Data Collection

SR Questions
General Information
2 Application Name
3 Application Vendor
4 Version / Release
5 Service Pack / Maintainance pack
6 Information filled by: Name
7 Contact Number
8 Email ID
9 Date of Response of this Questionnaire
10 HostName
11 Domain Name and DNS name
12 IP Addresses
13 Subnet
14 Gateway
15 DNS
16 OS
17 OS Version / Release

18 Service Pack / Maintainance pack

19 Clustering Software Information
20 Server Hardware Vendor
21 Model
22 No of Processors
23 Processor Information Intel/SPARC/RISC/Itanium etc
24 Processor Speed
25 Physical RAM
26 I/O Bus PCI/SBUS/Other
27 If free PCI slot availble for HBA card
28 LAN connectivity eg 10mb,100mb,1gbps, Xgige
29 Page File Size configured in case Windows or other System
performance setting for other OS
30 Antivirus version Installed
31 Which are incoming Ports used for Client to Server
Communication
32 Outgoing Ports for Client-Server Communication
33 Server Security Hardening information if any Eg Registy entries
modified, User id disabled etc
34 Total Disk Space allocated on Local Storage
38 RAID Level recommended by Application/Database
47 Server dependency information eg DB servers, Webservers and
any other servers which need to be up for this application to be
up and running.
48 Application dependency information eg Other Applications that
needs to be running for this application to be up and running.
Eg Payroll needs data from Time and Attendance system etc

Please fill in Database Specific information in the respective

Note database sheets

Note Any other Important Information Please add below

SR Database Service Software
1 Name of the application that uses the Oracle databases
2 Oracle database server software versions
3 Oracle Database Server Version
Was any Oracle software patches and OS patches applied to the above
4 version? If so, specify the list of patches applied.

Is the current Oracle version a fresh install or has it been upgraded from an
earlier Oracle version? If upgraded from an earlier version, specify the
5 version number.
(If multiple databases are used by the application, specify the
following section for each of the database)
Database Details
6 What is the name of the production database?
7 Provide the current size of the production database.
DB Initialization file path. The path where the Database init files are present
14 or copied.
OS volumes on which the DB / Logs / Controlfiles / INIT file / Netconfig
15 files (listener.ora / tnsnames.ora) reside.
17 Does the database use PFile / SPFile to initialize the database.
Provide the memory configurations set at the time of Oracle installation on
18 the primary.

19 Provide the /etc/system file in-case the database is on Sun Solaris server.
Does the database full backup path has read/write permissions w.r.t Oracle
20 OS user.
22 If Check-pointing is enabled for database?

DR Information
23 Primary site where the production copy is hosted.
24 DR Site where the Standby copy of the data will be hosted.
25 Name of the primary server where the database is hosted.
26 Name of the DR server where the standby copy will be hosted.
35 Specify the application server name on primary site
38 Specify the application server name on DR site

Oracle User Information

41 Oracle User name
42 Oracle DBA user name
Oracle RAC
43 How many servers are part of RAC?
44 Does RAC database instances use the same storage or different
45 How
What many
is the are
ruleACTIVE and the
using which howACTIVE
many arebecomes
in PASSIVE modeand vice-
PASSIVE
46 versa.
47 Does the RAC Cluster use OCFS Cluster or any other Cluster software.
48 Provide the Cluster Node Names in order
49 Provide the Raw volumes on which the data-files reside.