VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 Oracle Administrator's Guide

Using VxDBA to Perform Administrative Operations Prerelease 8 September 2005, 8:55am
338 VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle Administrator’s Guide
Shutting Down a Database Instance
The VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle software package includes adaptable scripts that are
automatically run when stopping the database using the VxDBA utility. You can modify these
scripts to run other tools and applications or to start and stop other services before and/or after
database shutdown. For example, you could modify the scripts to ensure the database TCP listener
is also correctly stopped. The following scripts are included in the
/etc/vx/vxdba/ORACLE_SID directory:
◆ shutdown.pre
◆ shutdown.post
These scripts are copied from the system-wide default files, located in the
/opt/VRTSdbed/lib directory:
◆ shutdown.pre.base
◆ shutdown.post.base
To perform some administrative tasks (for example, Storage Rollback), the database must be
offline. Use the Shutdown Database Instance menu option to bring the database instance down.
This operation displays a screen similar to the following:
Select from the following shutdown methods:
VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle (ORACLE_SID 'PROD')
Menu: Shutdown Database Instance
1 Shutdown NORMAL
2 Shutdown TRANSACTIONAL
3 Shutdown IMMEDIATE
4 Shutdown ABORT
? Display Help About the Current Menu
q Exit From Current Menu
x Exit From VxDBA Utility
Select Operation to Perform: 1