Re: Unix newbie question - dbsnmp

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.
> --
> Ed Stevens
> (Opinions expressed do not necessarily represent those of my employer.)

It appears that your Oracle databases are not using Oracle's Intelligent Agent and that you have zero processes running.

Forget what the book says on this one. It is not necessary.

Daniel Morgan Received on Fri Oct 18 2002 - 12:13:28 CDT