VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 Oracle Administrator's Guide

Using VxDBA to Perform Administrative Operations Prerelease 8 September 2005, 8:55am
378 VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle Administrator’s Guide
Enabling, Disabling, or Modifying Space Alarm Settings
When the file system runs out of space, VxFS automatically removes Storage Checkpoints to free
up space. This could happen when Oracle is processing update transactions such that original data
blocks are saved in the Storage Checkpoints. Enabling the space alarm allows VxDBA to monitor
space usage and grow the file systems automatically, so that Storage Checkpoints are not
unnecessarily removed.
Note Only users with superuser (root) privileges can perform this operation.
The Enable/Disable/Modify Space Alarm Settings operation first checks to see if you are logged
in as root. If you are not logged in as root, VxDBA prompts you for the root password:
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VxDBA: Enable/Disable/Modify Space Alarm Settings - PROD
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You must be root to access the space alarm.
If you can enter the root password, you can continue.
Continue? [y,n,q,?] (default: y) y
Password: