Re: Unix newbie question - dbsnmp - One more thing

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.)

See if you can log onto your database as DBSNMP/DBSNMP.

If so ... try ALTER USER and change that password.

Daniel Morgan Received on Fri Oct 18 2002 - 12:14:29 CDT