VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 Oracle Administrator's Guide

Starting VxDBA Prerelease 8 September 2005, 8:55am
334 VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle Administrator’s Guide
Starting VxDBA
Most VxDBA utility operations can be run by the Oracle Database Administrator (typically, the
user ID oracle) of the database instance. Some VxDBA utility operations, like many of the file
system space management operations, require superuser (root) privileges. VxDBA prompts you
for the root password when required.
Prerequisites
Before running VxDBA, you must:
◆ If you are using SPFile, run the dbed_update command. If you do not run the command,
an error message displays.
◆ If you are using $ORA_PFILE instead of SPFile, you must specify the
init$ORACLE_SID.ora parameter file in the environment variable $ORA_PFILE if the
parameter file (init$ORACLE_SID.ora) is not located under $ORACLE_HOME/dbs.
◆ Have appropriate permission to run the utility. VxDBA requires permission changes to allow
database administrators to access these tools. The default settings for the /opt/VRTSdbed
directory at installation time allows only superuser (root) access to the directory. If you did
not make these permission changes when prompted during installation, you can grant
administrators access to VxDBA now.
▼ To grant administrative access to VxDBA
1. Use the chown and chmod commands to allow single user access to VxDBA. For example:
# chown oracle /opt/VRTSdbed
# chmod 500 /opt/VRTSdbed
2. Use the chgrp and chmod commands to allow group user access to VxDBA. For example:
# chgrp dba /opt/VRTSdbed
# chmod 550 /opt/VRTSdbed