VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 Oracle Administrator's Guide

Chapter 13, Using the VxDBA Utility
Prerelease 8 September 2005, 8:55am Using VxDBA to Perform Administrative Operations
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Starting and Stopping the Monitoring Agent
Note Only users with superuser (root) privileges can perform this operation.
The Start/Stop Monitoring Agent 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:
After you enter the root password, Start/Stop Monitoring Agent displays a screen similar to the
following:
Select from the following menu operations:
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VxDBA: Start/Stop Monitoring Agent- PROD
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You must be root to start or stop the Monitoring Agent.
If you can enter the root password, you can continue.
Continue? [y,n,q,?] (default: y) y
Password:
VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle (ORACLE_SID 'PROD')
Menu: Start/Stop Monitoring Agent
VxDBA: Monitoring Agent is running as pid 6991.
1 Start Monitoring Agent
2 Stop Monitoring Agent
? Display Help About the Current Menu
q Exit From Current Menu
x Exit From VxDBA Utility
Select Operation to Perform: