Specifications

21 – Command Reference
510 R400
dcheck
Description
dcheck is a database index integrity checker. You may need to use this utility if
you experience problems with Event Archiving files after a power failure or some
other unexpected event which prevents data from being logged properly.
You use the dcheck utility to:
• Find the configuration of the file
• Check the integrity of a file
• Repair a faulty index
• Rebuild an index from data
• View index contents
Syntax
dcheck [ options ] isamfile
Part Description
options -i Checks the index only.
-l Lists the contents of the index.
-n Does not rebuild the index.
-y Rebuilds the index if it is faulty.
-q Does not print unless necessary.
-b Rebuilds the index from the data.
-h Prints out the files structure, no checking. This
option does not require exclusive access to the file.
-x Outputs the contents of each key in hex/ascii
(printables print as expected, non printables as hex
pairs).
-o Prints a list of numbers which refer to the record
number in the order that they are indexed. This option
can be used with the -q option to create a filter for quick
printing.
isamfile The input file, which can be one of three files:
\server\evtarch\online\events
\server\evtarch\archive\events
\server\evtarch\playback\events
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