IHAC using SC to backup Oracle databases on windows.
Every so often - daily - backups stops working and it seems that it's the agent that stops responding/stops accepting connections.
In this case, app quiesce and unquiesce runs for however long the SC timeout value is set to.
We also have seen another issue on the same server where we actually gets a backup session going but the first thing
in the agent log is an error - agt-00006 - meaning the watchdog could not be started, potentially due to resource constraints.
After an agent restart, backups starts working again until the next time it stops working again.
There's no agent log files on the Oracle servers from backup attempts where the session is never setup - guessing that is the reason.
For the agt-00006 errors, well there's obviously an agent log but no details of what could be the issue.
How do I troubleshoot the agent?
Thanks in advance,
Erik Stjerna