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Oracle® Database Reference
11g Release 2 (11.2)

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DIAGNOSTIC_DEST

Property Description
Parameter type String
Syntax DIAGNOSTIC_DEST = { pathname | directory }
Default value Derived from the value of the $ORACLE_BASE environment variable. If $ORACLE_BASE is not set, then derived from ORACLE_BASE as set by the Oracle Universal Installer. If ORACLE_BASE is not set, then $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/log is used.
Modifiable ALTER SYSTEM
Basic No
Oracle RAC This parameter can be set on each instance. Oracle recommends that each instance in a cluster specify a DIAGNOSTIC_DEST directory location that is located on shared disk and that the same value for DIAGNOSTIC_DEST be specified for each instance.

As of Oracle Database 11g Release 1 (11.1), the diagnostics for each database instance are located in a dedicated directory, which can be specified through the DIAGNOSTIC_DEST initialization parameter. The structure of the directory specified by DIAGNOSTIC_DEST is as follows:

<diagnostic_dest>/diag/rdbms/<dbname>/<instname>

This location is known as the Automatic Diagnostic Repository (ADR) Home. For example, if the database name is proddb and the instance name is proddb1, the ADR home directory would be <diagnostic_dest>/diag/rdbms/proddb/proddb1.

The following files are located under the ADR home directory: