Veritas Storage Foundation 5.1 SP1: Storage and Availability Management for Oracle (5900-1504, April 2011)

Preparing to set up the SFDB repository
Before you run any SF for Databases tools commands, you must set the permissions
correctly to prevent permission problems.
To prepare to set up the SFDB repository
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To set the permissions correctly for the SFDB directories, use the
sfua_db_config command.
For example:
# /opt/VRTS/bin/sfua_db_config
Welcome to the SFORA configuration script.
This script sets the owner and group of various directories
Are you ready to configure SFDB directories (y/n/q) [y]? y
Enter login account name for DBA user: oracle
Enter group name for DBA user: dba
Owner and group changed for SFDB directories
Setting up the SFDB repository
Before you can create Database Storage Checkpoints, use Database FlashSnap, or
create SmartTier for Oracle policies, you must set up the SF for Databases
repository to maintain the information for them.
The usage for dbed_update is as follows:
dbed_update -S ORACLE_SID -H ORACLE_HOME
[ -G SERVICE_GROUP ] [ -C PACKAGE ] [ -P ORACLE_PFILE ]
[ -R REPOSITORY_PATH ] [ -I ]
dbed_update -S ORACLE_SID -H ORACLE_HOME
[ -o list ]
[ -o rename,old_node=old_name,new_node=new_name ]
Options you can use:
DescriptionSample valueOption
Specifies the name of the Oracle database
whose information will be retrieved.
ORACLE_SID-S
43Administering Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) tools
Configuring the Storage Foundation for Databases (SFDB) repository