Oracle Autonomous Health Framework (AHF) helps maximize application resilience, performance, and security using cutting-edge AI to prevent and resolve issues.
It's the same technology Oracle uses in the cloud to keep the Autonomous Database running, and it's available for you at no extra cost as part of your existing software support agreement.
Support for Exadata X11M and Exadata System Software 25.1
AHF 25.1 provides full support for both Exadata X11M and Exadata System Software 25.1.
In January 2025 Oracle released Exadata X11M, providing the choice and flexibility to deploy everywhere customers need, on-premises, Cloud@Customer, Oracle Cloud, and multicloud.
Exadata is used by thousands of organizations, including the majority of the world’s largest financial, telecom, and retail businesses, to run their most critical and demanding Oracle Database workloads.
The 13th generation of Exadata builds on decades of engineering excellence to power mission-critical AI, analytics, and OLTP workloads globally. Offered at the same price as the prior generation, Exadata X11M provides extreme performance, scalability, and availability for all Oracle Database workloads.
Exadata System Software 25.1 is the latest release of Exadata System Software.
Building on Exadata System Software 24ai and prior releases, the 25.1 release introduces significant new capabilities. It enhances existing capabilities to cement Exadata’s position as the best platform for running Oracle Database on-premises or in the cloud.
AHF 25.1 provides full support for both Exadata X11M and Exadata System Software 25.1
To learn more about Exadata X11M and Exadata System Software 25.1 see:
Automated Problem Analysis for Node Evictions, Instance Evictions and Database Slow Performance
AHF now automatically detects new problems resulting in node and instance evictions or slow database performance – the detected problem and resolution is shown in Insights.
Manage Credentials, SSH keys and Updates with ahf CLI
The AHF CLI provides easier management for SSH keys, credentials and updates.
AHF is gradually moving all command line functionality in the ahf CLI, and as of 25.1 the following new features have been included.
Secure SSH Key Storage
SSH Keys are often required for secure access to resources automatically. The storing of these keys on systems can represent risks.
AHF can now generate and store the SSH Keys for the remote components that are going to be used by Orachk/Exachk. These keys are encrypted and stored within the AHF wallet, ensuring they are protected from unauthorized access. AHF will automatically detect the configured SSH keys for a remote system and use that to login.
For more information see the ahf configuration section of the User Guide.
CPU Resource Limiting on Oracle Linux 9 (Non-Exadata)
At time of publish Exadata does not yet support OL9 - this feature is for non-Exadata environment.
AHF adds support for CPU resource limiting using cgroups v2, which is the default on Oracle Linux 9.
The CPU usage of AHF is automatically limited using the Linux cgroups feature. This ensures AHF does not consume too much CPU out of the box and enables users to easily allocate more or less CPU to AHF as desired.
Oracle Linux 9 uses a new version of cgroups v2 by default.
As of AHF 25.1 both cgroups v1 and v2 are fully supported by AHF.
To manage AHF CPU resource usage use the ahfctl setresourcelimit command, more details can be found in the AHF User Guide.
New Exachk Best Practice Check
25.1 includes the following new best practice check for Exachk:
Exadata Critical Issue EX92
All checks can be explored in more detail via the Health Check Catalogs: