Creating a Logical Incident Package

You use variants of the IPS CREATE PACKAGE command to create a logical package (package).

To create a package based on an incident:

Start ADRCI in interactive mode, and ensure that the homepath points to the correct directory within the ADR base directory hierarchy.

See "Starting ADRCI and Getting Help" and "Homepath" for details.
At the ADRCI prompt, enter the following command:
```
IPS CREATE PACKAGE INCIDENT incident_number
```
For example, the following command creates a package based on incident 3:
```
IPS CREATE PACKAGE INCIDENT 3
```
ADRCI generates output similar to the following:
```
Created package 10 based on incident id 3, correlation level typical
```
The package number assigned to this logical package is 10.

The following are variations on the IPS CREATE PACKAGE command:

IPS CREATE PACKAGE

This creates an empty package. You must use the IPS ADD INCIDENT or IPS ADD FILE commands to add diagnostic data to the package before generating it.

IPS CREATE PACKAGE PROBLEM problem_ID

This creates a package and includes diagnostic information for incidents that reference the specified problem ID. (Problem IDs are integers.) You can obtain the problem ID for an incident from the report displayed by the SHOW INCIDENT -MODE BRIEF command. Because there can be many incidents with the same problem ID, ADRCI adds to the package the diagnostic information for the first three incidents (early incidents) that occurred and last three incidents (late incidents) that occurred with this problem ID, excluding any incidents that are older than 90 days.

Note:

The number of early and late incidents, and the 90-day age limit are defaults that can be changed. See "IPS SET CONFIGURATION".

ADRCI may also add other incidents that correlate closely in time or in other criteria with the already added incidents.

IPS CREATE PACKAGE PROBLEMKEY "problem_key"

This creates a package and includes diagnostic information for incidents that reference the specified problem key. You can obtain problem keys from the report displayed by the SHOW INCIDENT command. Because there can be many incidents with the same problem key, ADRCI adds to the package only the diagnostic information for the first three early incidents and last three late incidents with this problem key, excluding incidents that are older than 90 days.

Note:

The number of early and late incidents, and the 90-day age limit are defaults that can be changed. See "IPS SET CONFIGURATION".

ADRCI may also add other incidents that correlate closely in time or in other criteria with the already added incidents.

The problem key must be enclosed in single quotation marks (') or double quotation marks (") if it contains spaces or quotation marks.

IPS CREATE PACKAGE SECONDS sec

This creates a package and includes diagnostic information for all incidents that occurred from sec seconds ago until now. sec must be an integer.

IPS CREATE PACKAGE TIME 'start_time' TO 'end_time'

This creates a package and includes diagnostic information for all incidents that occurred within the specified time range. start_time and end_time must be in the format 'YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS.FF TZR'. This is a valid format string for the NLS_TIMESTAMP_TZ_FORMAT initialization parameter. The fraction (FF) portion of the time is optional, and the HH24:MI:SS delimiters can be colons or periods.

For example, the following command creates a package with incidents that occurred between July 24th and July 30th of 2010:

IPS CREATE PACKAGE TIME '2010-07-24 00:00:00 -07:00' to '2010-07-30 23.59.59 -07:00'