On January 1, 2025, Oracle Linux 7 moved from Premier to Extended Support. Oracle Cloud customers using Oracle Linux are entitled to both Premier Support and Extended Support (when offered). For more information about the Extended Support program, see Oracle Linux Extended Support.
Adds support for diagnostic NMI-induced crash kernel generation on unresponsive VM instances. For more information, including how to configure the OS to generate a crash dump, see Sending a Diagnostic Interrupt.
Improves diagnostic and debugging data collection by installing the following diagnostic packages:
systemtap-4.0-11.0.1.el7.x86_64
systemtap-client-4.0-11.0.1.el7.x86_64
oswatcher-8.3.0-4.el7.noarch.rpm
ltrace-0.7.91-16.el7.x86_64
dtrace-utils.x86_64 0:1.2.1-1.el7
bcc-0.10.0-1.el7.x86_64
python-bcc-0.10.0-1.el7.x86_64
bcc-tools-0.10.0-1.el7.x86_64
Changes the OSWatcher log location to /var/oled/oswatcher.
Changes the default directory for kernel core dumps to /var/oled/crash.
For general information about Oracle Linux 7, including documentation and release notes, see Oracle Linux 7.