VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 for Oracle RAC HP Serviceguard Storage Management Suite Extracts, December 2005

Examples of Using the Command Line Interface
Creating or Updating The Repository Using sfrac_update
You can use the VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC sfrac_update command
to create or update the repository for VxDBA.
Prerequisites
You must be logged on as the database administrator (typically, the user ID oracle).
Usage Notes
◆ The sfrac_update command creates a repository in the
$VXDBA_DBPATH / ORACLE_SID directory where information used by VERITAS
Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC is kept. If the repository already exists, the
command will refresh the information.
◆ The database must be up and running, and the ORACLE_SID and the ORACLE_HOME
variable arguments must be specified with the -S and -H options, respectively.
◆ See the sfrac_update(1M) manual page for more information.
▼ To update the VxDBA repository
Use the sfrac_update command as follows:
$ /opt/VRTS/bin/sfrac_update -S DB12 -H $ORACLE_HOME
▼ To view the status of the VxDBA repository
Use the sfrac_update command with the -n option as follows:
$ /opt/VRTS/bin/sfrac_update -S DB12 -H $ORACLE_HOME -n
VxDBA repository is up to date.
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