Veritas Storage Foundation™ for Oracle 5.0.1 Administrator's Guide

The DBA can also create a file relocation policy for database files, which would
relocate files based on how frequently a file is used.
See “About Database Dynamic Storage Tiering” on page 183.
About the vxdbd daemon
The vxdbd daemon handles communication to and from the Veritas Storage
Foundation for Oracle software. By default, vxdbd communicates with Veritas
Storage Foundation for Oracle over port number 3233. If there are conflicts with
this port or other port-related problems, you can change the port by changing the
VXDBD_SOCKET setting located in the /etc/vx/vxdbed/admin.properties file.
Normally the vxdbd daemon starts automatically when the host boots up. However,
if the daemon reports errors or if the daemon process dies, you may have to
manually start or stop it. There is also a status command that reports the current
state of the daemon to confirm that it is currently running.
Only the root user can stop vxdbd. Any user can start vxdbd or display its status.
Note: You must have a valid HOME directory for vxdbd to work correctly with
several Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle features. If you receive the following
error message, but you confirm that vxdbd is running (using ps -ef | grep
vxdbd rather than vxdbdctrl status), you may not have a valid HOME directory
or it may not be available to vxdbd:
VXDBA_PRODUCT exec_remote ERROR V-81-7700 Can not connect to the vxdbd.
To see the status of the vxdbd daemon
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Use the vxdbdctrl status command:
/opt/VRTSdbcom/bin/vxdbdctrl status
If the daemon is running you see the following output:
Status of Veritas vxdbd
/opt/VRTSdbcom/bin/vxdbd ping SUCCESS
To start the vxdbd daemon
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Use the vxdbdctrl start command:
/opt/VRTSdbcom/bin/vxdbdctrl start
Introducing Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle
About the vxdbd daemon
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