VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 Oracle Administrator's Guide

Appendix A, VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle Command Line Interface
Prerelease 8 September 2005, 8:55am Examples of Using the Command Line Interface
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Checking Oracle Configuration Environment Using
dbed_checkconfig
You can use the VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle dbed_checkconfig command to
verify and report on an Oracle environment from the command line.
Prerequisites
You must be logged on as the database administrator (typically, the user ID oracle).
Usage Notes
The dbed_checkconfig command is used to verify various elements of the Oracle
database environment. The utility attempts to use certain basic rules on Oracle settings, file
system and volume parameters and layout options to verify how resilient and well configured a
configuration is. The information provided is valid for the supplied Oracle database (SID).
See the dbed_checkconfig(1M) manual page for more information.
To check the Oracle configuration environment
Use the dbed_checkconfig command as follows:
$ /opt/VRTS/bin/dbed_checkconfig -S PROD -H /oracle/product/9i
Examining file system attributes.
All file systems are VxFS.
All file systems are VxFS Version 4 or higher layout.
All file systems have the same version layout (version 6).
Examining Quick I/O settings.
All datafiles are Quick I/O files.
Examining Cached Quick I/O settings.
No file systems have Cached Quick I/O enabled.
Examining datafiles fragmentation.
5 files are fragmented.
Examining File System tunable settings.
Parameters for all VxFS file systems used by PROD.