Veritas Storage Foundation™ for Oracle 5.0.1 Administrator's Guide

transaction log files, yymmddxx.log. VxDBMS supports remote client access from

any host in the network that has proper authorization and configuration.

SFDB requires only occasional interaction outside of the initial installation and

configuration of Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle.

See the Veritas Storage Foundation Installation Guide for more information on

configuring the SFDB repository.

Runtime management tasks for the SFDB repository

Most interactions with the SFDB repository are handled automatically by SFDB

code. Administrators only need to handle SFDB backup and restore activities and

to monitor the hard disk space usage of the repository. A configuration file

/etc/vx/vxdbed/admin.properties is created during installation to record the

file system and volume used for the SFDB repository. The VxDBMS server starts

automatically after a system reboot via rc files.

Starting, stopping, and checking the SFDB repository with

sfua_db_config

See the Veritas Storage Foundation Installation Guide for more information on

configuring the SFDB repository.

If for any reason the VxDBMS process is not running or is having problems, use

the sfua_db_config command to start, stop, and check the status of the repository

database and its server.

To check the status of the repository

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Use the -o dbstatus option:

# /opt/VRTSdbcom/bin/sfua_db_config -o dbstatus

To start the repository

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Use the -o startdb option:

# /opt/VRTSdbcom/bin/sfua_db_config -o startdb

Backing up and restoring the SFDB repository with sfua_rept_adm

Use the sfua_rept_adm command to manage the backing up and restoring of the

SFDB repository. With this command, you can:

Managing the SFDB repository

Runtime management tasks for the SFDB repository