User Guide

SAP AG November 2002
You can open an interactive Database Manager CLI session if you do not enter any DBM
commands other than the required options. You can then enter the required DBM commands
interactively.
You can write the required DBM commands to a separate file <file_name>. In this case,
when you call the Database Manager CLI, you can enter option -i <file_name> in addition
to the required options.
See also:
Database Manager CLI: SAP DB 7.3 [See SAP DB Library]
→ Functions of the Database
Manager CLI [See SAP DB Library]
Database Manager GUI
The has a user-friendly graphical user interface, the Database
Manager GUI (DBMGUI). If you want to use the Database Manager to monitor several SAP
DB database instances, which may be on different computers, you should use the Database
Manager GUI.
Database Manager [Page 13 ]
The Database Manager GUI can only be used on Windows operating systems. If you want to
use the functionality of the Database Manager on other operating system platforms, you must
use the Database Manager CLI [Page
13 ]3 or Web DBM [Page 154].
3
Call
You have the following options for calling the Database Manager GUI:
•
•
Choose Start → Programs → SAP DB → Database Manager.
You can start the Database Manager GUI from the command line. In this case, you can
transfer
to the Database Manager program.
options [Page
60]
See also: Database Manager GUI: SAP DB 7.4 [See SAP DB Library]
Database Manager Operator (DBM Operator)
Users working with the database management tool Database Manager [Page 133] are known
as Database Manager Operators. The
149 is the DBM operator.
SAP DB user class [Page
]
Depending on what
the DBM operator has been given, a DBM
operator is able to perform all kinds of Database Manager functions.
authorizations [Page
27]
You create the first DBM operator when you install a
. When
you register a database instance, you must specify the name and the password of the first
DBM operator. In this way, you legitimize yourself as the DBM operator of the database
instance. The DBM operator’s password can be changed at a later date.
database instance [Page
132]
• This DBM operator is then responsible for managing and monitoring the database system
and for running backups. The DBM operator is also authorized to perform all Database
Manager functions, regardless of what operating mode the database instance is in.
• The DBM operator is also authorized to create additional DBM operators, and assign
these all or some of their authorizations.
• The DBM operator can log on to the Database Manager more than once, which means
the DBM operator can, for example, query operating parameters while functions that take
a long time are still running.
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