VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 Oracle Administrator's Guide

Using VxDBA to Perform Administrative Operations Prerelease 8 September 2005, 8:55am
374 VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle Administrator’s Guide
Monitoring Agent is looking for potential removal candidates. A Storage Checkpoint must have an
entry in the /etc/vx/vxdba/$ORACLE_SID/checkpoint_dir directory before it is
considered owned by the database. This is done automatically by the provided VxDBA and
dbed_ckpt create utilities and ensures that, if multiple databases share the same file
system(s), the policy for one database does not affect another.
Use the File System Space Administration menu to monitor the space usage of the file system and
each Storage Checkpoint. You can also use the menu to enable or disable the VxDBA Monitoring
Agent.
This operation displays a screen similar to the following:
Select from the following File System Space Alarm Administration operations:
Display File System Space Usage
Use this menu option to display file system space usage information and the estimated space used
for Storage Checkpoints created by VxDBA.
Display File System Space Alarm Settings
Use this menu option to display the space alarm information on the file systems used by the Oracle
instance. The menu operation provides the boot-time status and current status of the VxDBA
Monitoring Agent, as well as the list of file systems with their associated space alarm settings and
status (
ENABLED or DISABLED).
VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle (ORACLE_SID 'PROD')
Menu: File System Space Administration
Database Status : ONLINE
# File Systems : 1
# Tablespaces : 4
# Datafiles : 4
1 Display File System Space Usage
2 Display File System Space Alarm Settings
3 Enable/Disable/Modify Space Alarm Settings
? Display Help About the Current Menu
q Exit From Current Menu
x Exit From VxDBA Utility
Select Operation to Perform: