To list the event action internal documentation commands use ORADEBUG DOC EVENT ACTION:
In Oracle 12.1.0.2 output is:
SQL> ORADEBUG DOC EVENT ACTION
Actions in library DIAG:
---------------------------
evfunc - Get posting function name
evfile - Get posting file name
evline - Get posting file line number as ub8
evfmt - Get trace / log format string
evargc - Get count of event check arguments as a ub8
evargn - Get event check argument value as ub8
evargp - Get event check argument value as void *
evargs - Get event check argument as string, with optional format
errargs - Get error argument as string
errargn - Get error argument as ub8
errargp - Get error argument as pointer
errargc - Get count of error arguments as a ub8
sum - Compute a1 + a2 + ... + a15 as ub8 (zero if all NULL)
trace - trace to disk; apply format to string arguments
% is an argument placeholder
\n and \t are supported. Use double \ as escape
sub - Compute a1 - a2 as ub8
add - Compute a1 + a2 as ub8
mod - Compute a1 modulo a2 as ub8
div - Compute a1 / a2 as ub8
mul - Compute a1 * a2 as ub8
incr - Increment ptr by offset
decr - Decrement ptr by offset
refn - Dereference ptr-to-number: *(ub*)(((ub1*))) + )
refp - Dereference ptr-to-ptr: *(ub1**)(((ub1*))) + )
refs - Dereference ptr-to-string: *(oratext **)(((ub1*)) + )
Length is optional; NULL-terminated string is assumed
refsl - Dereference ptr-to-string: *(oratext **)(((ub1*)) + )
with ptr-to-length: *(ub*)(((ub1*)) + )
dumpFrameContext - Dump Frame Context contents
dumpBuckets
kgsfdmp
dumpDiagCtx
dumpDbgecPopLoc
dumpDbgecMarks
dumpGeneralConfiguration
dumpADRLockTable
shortstack - get short stack (up to 256 characters)
showoffsets controls display of code offsets
skipframes can be used to overcome 256 char limit
dbgvci_action_signal_crash
Actions in library RDBMS:
---------------------------
incident - Create an Incident
sqlmon_dump - SQL Monitor Dump SGA Action
varaddr - Return address of a fixed PGA/SGA/UGA variable
username - Return user log-in name
sqlid - Return current SQL Id in character format
flashfreeze
oradebug - debug process using ORADEBUG
debugger - debug process using System Debugger
debug - alias for 'debugger' - debug process using System Debugger
crash - crash process
kill_instance - killing RDBMS instance
controlc_signal - received 1013 signal
eventdump - list events that are set in the group
kdlut_bucketdump_action
kzxt_dump_action
dumpKernelDiagState
HMCHECK (async)
DATA_BLOCK_INTEGRITY_CHECK (async)
CF_BLOCK_INTEGRITY_CHECK (async)
DB_STRUCTURE_INTEGRITY_CHECK (async)
REDO_INTEGRITY_CHECK (async)
TRANSACTION_INTEGRITY_CHECK (async)
SQL_TESTCASE_REC (async)
SQL_TESTCASE_REC_DATA (async)
ORA_12751_DUMP
sqladv_dump_dumpctx
ORA_4030_DUMP - dump summary of PGA memory usage, largest allocations
ORA_4036_DUMP - dump summary of PGA memory usage
HNGDET_MEM_USAGE_DUMP_NOARGS - dump hang detection memory usage
kcfis_action - kcfis actions
exadata_dump_modvers - Exadata dump module versions
QUERY_BLOCK_DUMP - Debug action for dumping a qbcdef tree
dumpADVMState - Dump contents of ADVM state
dumpASMState - Dump contents of ASM state
ASM_CHECK_DG (async) - Run check diskgroup
ASM_DUMP_KSTSS - Dump KST Trace and System State
ASM_MOUNT_FAIL_CHECK (async)
ASM_DGFDM_CHECK_NO_DG_NAME (async)
ASM_SYNC_IO_FAIL_CHECK (async)
ASM_DG_FORCE_DISMOUNT_CHECK (async)
ASM_ALLOC_FAIL_CHECK (async)
ASM_ADD_DISK_CHECK (async)
ASM_FILE_BUSY_CHECK (async)
ASM_TOOMANYOFF_FAIL_CHECK (async)
ASM_INSUFFICIENT_DISKS_CHECK (async)
ASM_INSUFFICIENT_MEM_CHECK (async)
KJZN_ASYNC_SYSTEM_STATE (async)
KSI_GET_TRACE - Get lmd0 traces for ksi issues
TRACE_BUFFER_ON - Allocate trace output buffer for ksdwrf()
TRACE_BUFFER_OFF - Flush and deallocate trace output buffer for ksdwrf()
LATCHES - Dump Latches
XS_SESSION_STATE - Dump XS session state
PROCESSSTATE - Dump process state
SYSTEMSTATE - Dump system state
INSTANTIATIONSTATE - Dump instantiation state
CONTEXTAREA - Dump cursor context area
HEAPDUMP - Dump memory heap (1-PGA, 2-SGA, 4-UGA, +1024-Content)
POKE_LENGTH - Set length before poking value
POKE_VALUE - Poke a value into memory
POKE_VALUE0 - Poke 0 value into memory
GLOBAL_AREA - Dump fixed global area(s) (1=PGA/2=SGA/3=UGA, add +8 for pointer content)
REALFREEDUMP - Dump PGA real free memory allocator state
FLUSH_JAVA_POOL - Flush Java pool
PGA_DETAIL_GET - Ask process to publish PGA detail info (level is pid)
PGA_DETAIL_DUMP - Dump PGA detail information for process (level is pid)
PGA_DETAIL_CANCEL - Free PGA detail request (level is pid)
PGA_SUMMARY - Summary of PGA memory usage, largest allocations
MODIFIED_PARAMETERS - Dump parameters modifed by session (level unused)
ERRORSTACK - Dump state (ksedmp). Use INCIDENT action to create incident
CALLSTACK - Dump call stack (level > 1 to dump args)
RECORD_CALLSTACK - Record or dump call stack, level = #frames (level += 1000000 go to trc)
BG_MESSAGES - Dump routine for background messages
ENQUEUES - Dump enqueues (level >=2 adds resources, >= 3 adds locks)
KSTDUMPCURPROC - Dump current process trace buffer (1 for all events)
KSTDUMPALLPROCS - Dump all processes trace buffers (1 for all events)
KSTDUMPALLPROCS_CLUSTER - Dump all processes (cluster wide) trace buffers (1 for all events)
KSKDUMPTRACE - Dumping KSK KST tracing (no level)
DBSCHEDULER - Dump ressource manager state
LDAP_USER_DUMP - Dump LDAP user mode
LDAP_KERNEL_DUMP - Dump LDAP kernel mode
DUMP_ALL_OBJSTATS - Dump database objects statistics
DUMPGLOBALDATA - Rolling migration DUMP GLOBAL DATA
HANGANALYZE - Hang analyze
HANGANALYZE_PROC - Hang analyze current process
HANGANALYZE_GLOBAL - Hang analyze system
HNGDET_MEM_USAGE_DUMP - dump hang detection memory usage
GES_STATE - Dump DML state
RACDUMP - Dump RAC state
OCR - OCR client side tracing
CSS - CSS client side tracing
CRS - CRS client side tracing
SYSTEMSTATE_GLOBAL - Perform cluster wide system state dump (via DIAG)
DUMP_ALL_COMP_GRANULE_ADDRS
- MMAN dump all granule addresses of all components (no level)
DUMP_ALL_COMP_GRANULES
- MMAN dump all granules of all components (1 for partial list)
DUMP_ALL_REQS - MMAN dump all pending memory requests to alert log
DUMP_TRANSFER_OPS - MMAN dump transfer and resize operations history
DUMP_ADV_SNAPSHOTS - MMAN dump all snapshots of advisories (level unused)
CONTROLF - DuMP control file info
FLUSH_CACHE
- Flush buffer cache without shuting down the instance
SET_AFN - Set afn # for buffer flush (level = afn# )
SET_ISTEMPFILE
- Set istempfile for buffer flush (level = istempfile )
FLUSH_BUFFER - Reuse block range without flushing entire cache
BUFFERS - Dump all buffers in the buffer cache at level l
SET_TSN_P1
- Set tablespace # for buffer dump (level = ts# + 1)
BUFFER
- Dump all buffers for full relative dba at lvl 10
BC_SANITY_CHECK
- Run buffer cache sanity check (level = 0xFF for full)
SET_NBLOCKS - Set number of blocks for range reuse checks
CHECK_ROREUSE_SANITY - Check range/object reuse sanity (level = ts#)
DUMP_PINNED_BUFFER_HISTORY
- kcb Dump pinned buffers history (level = # buffers)
REDOLOGS - Dump all online logs according to the level
LOGHIST
- Dump the log history (1: dump earliest/latest entries, >1: dump most recent 2**level entries)
REDOHDR - Dump redo log headers
LOCKS - Dump every lock element to the trace file
GC_ELEMENTS - Dump every lock element to the trace file
FILE_HDRS - Dump database file headers
FBINC
- Dump flashback logs of the current incarnation and all its ancestors.
FBHDR - Dump all the flashback logfile headers
FLASHBACK_GEN - Dump flashback generation state
KTPR_DEBUG
- Parallel txn recovery (1: cleanup check, 2: dump ptr reco ctx, 3: dump recent smon runs)
DUMP_TEMP - Dump temp space management state (no level)
DROP_SEGMENTS - Drop unused temporary segments
TREEDUMP
- Dump an index tree rooted at dba BLOCKDBA ()
KDLIDMP - Dump 11glob inodes states (level = what to dump)
ROW_CACHE - Dump all cache objects
LIBRARY_CACHE
- Dump the library cache (level > 65535 => level = obj @)
CURSORDUMP - Dump session cursors
CURSOR_STATS - Dump all statistics information for cursors
SHARED_SERVER_STATE - Dump shared server state
LISTENER_REGISTRATION - Dump listener registration state
JAVAINFO - Dump Oracle Java VM
KXFPCLEARSTATS - Clear all Parallel Query messaging statistics
KXFPDUMPTRACE - Dump Parallel Query in-memory traces
KXFXSLAVESTATE
- Dump PX slave state (1: uga; 2: current cursor state; 3: all cursors)
KXFXCURSORSTATE - Dump PX slave cursor state
WORKAREATAB_DUMP - Dump SQL Memory Manager workarea table
OBJECT_CACHE - Dump the object cache
SAVEPOINTS - Dump savepoints
RULESETDUMP - Dump rule set
FAILOVER - Set condition failover immediate
OLAP_DUMP - Dump OLAP state
AWR_FLUSH_TABLE_ON - Enable flush of table id (ids in X$KEWRTB)
AWR_FLUSH_TABLE_OFF - Disable flush of table id (ids in X$KEWRTB)
ASHDUMP - Dump ASH data (level = # of minutes)
ASHDUMPSECONDS - Dump ASH data (level = # of seconds)
HM_FW_TRACE - DIAG health monitor set tracing level
IR_FW_TRACE - DIAG intelligent repair set/clear trace
GWM_TRACE - Global Services Management set/clear trace
GWM_TEST - Global Services Management set/clear GDS test
GLOBAL_BUFFER_DUMP - Request global buffer dump (level 1 = TRUE)
DEAD_CLEANUP_STATE - Dump dead processes and killed sessions
IMDB_PINNED_BUFFER_HISTORY
- Dump IMDB pinned buffer history (level = (dump_level << 16 | num_buffers))
HEAPDUMP_ADDR
- Heap dump by address routine (level > 1 dump content)
POKE_ADDRESS - Poke specified address (level = value)
CURSORTRACE - Trace cursor by hash value (hash value is address)
RULESETDUMP_ADDR - Dump rule set by address
kewmdump - Dump Metrics Metadata and Memory
con_id - Return Container Id as UB8
DBGT_SPLIT_CSTSTRING
DUMP_SWAP - dump system memory and swap information
ALERT_SWAP - issue alert message about system swap percentage
DUMP_PATCH - dump patch information
dumpBucketsRdbms
Actions in library GENERIC:
---------------------------
xdb_dump_buckets
dumpKGERing - Dump contents of KGE ring buffer
dumpKGEState - Dump KGE state information for debugging
Actions in library CLIENT:
---------------------------
kpuActionDefault - dump OCI data
kpuActionSignalCrash - crash and produce a core dump (if supported and possible)
kpudpaActionDpapi - DataPump dump action
Actions exist for each library except PL/SQL
For the RDBMS library most actions correspond to ORADEBUG DUMP commands from older versions including:
| Dump Name | Description |
| PROCESSSTATE | Dump process state |
| SYSTEMSTATE | Dump system state |
| HEAPDUMP | Dump memory heap |
| GLOBAL_AREA | Dump fixed global area(s) |
| BUFFERS | Dump all buffers in buffer cache |
| SET_TSN_P1 | Set tablespace# for buffer dump |
| BUFFER | Dump all buffers for specific DBA |
| LIBRARY_CACHE | Dump library cache |
| CURSORDUMP | Dump session cursors |