Re: Unix newbie question - dbsnmp

On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 15:28:07 GMT, spamdump_at_nospam.noway.nohow (Ed Stevens) wrote:

>Just when I was starting to get a bit comfortable with Oracle on NT, I'm told
>I'll be taking responsibility for some db's on AIX. I know next to nothing
>about the Unix world (going to a class next week) so am back in the 'newbie'
>catagory for some things.
>
>Got the book "Oracle DBA Checklists" from O'Reilley. Looks like a handy little
>reference of things the DBA should do daily, weekly, monthly, etc. and VERY
>Unix-centric. One of the 'daily' tasks is to check that the DBSNMP process is
>running. It states that there should be *two* dbsnmp processes running. My
>question is 'why two?' On NT we only have one dbsnmp service. When I log on to
>my newly acquired AIX box and do
>
> ps -ef | grep dbsnmp
>
>it seems to only list one process, though it's still all a bit cryptic to me.

dbsnmp is the Oracle Intelligent Agent. OIA uses two ports by default, 1748 and 1754. (I would need to check in the doco the exact purpose, but one of the 2 ports handles jobs and the like) On Unix one process deals with 1748 and one with 1754. On closer look on NT you'd probably see 2 threads.

Hth

Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA

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