VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 Oracle Administrator's Guide

Chapter 13, Using the VxDBA Utility
Prerelease 8 September 2005, 8:55am Overview of the VxDBA Menus
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◆ x - Exit From VxDBA Utility
This menu option exits the VxDBA utility.
VxDBA Submenu Operations
Most of the operations available from the VxDBA submenus are run as the Oracle database
administrative user (typically, user ID oracle), which allows the VxDBA utility permission to
connect directly to the database and gather information from the system catalog. This information
includes the status of the database (for example,
ACTIVE or INSTANCE DOWN), the number of
tablespaces and datafiles in the current Oracle instance, and the number of file systems that these
datafiles are spread across. When available, VxDBA displays these fields as header information on
the submenus. For example:
Database Status : ONLINE
# File Systems : (1)
# Tablespaces : (3)
# Datafiles : (4)
A subset of the VxDBA submenu operations requires superuser (root) privileges to interact with
the more secure or “privileged” operations of the VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle product
(for example, the VxDBA Monitoring Agent). When you run VxDBA operations as root,
VxDBA cannot connect to and obtain information directly from the database, so the submenu
Database Status header reports a permission error. For example:
Database Status : ORA-01031: insufficient privileges
# File Systems : (1)
# Tablespaces : (3)
# Datafiles : (4)
Because VxDBA cannot obtain information directly from the database at this time, the values for
the number of file systems, tablespaces, and datafiles are enclosed in parentheses to indicate that
this was the last value VxDBA was able to obtain from the system catalog.