Overview of GUI Functions

The GUI allows you to perform many storage management tasks for Oracle. This section offers an overview of those tasks. The tasks that you can perform dynamically from the main menu bar and pop-up menu depend on what is highlighted on the object tree. For example, if you have the Oracle database highlighted in the tree, you can open a database instance from the Oracle menu.

GUI functionality includes:

• Database operations

You can start, stop, or duplicate a database instance through the GUI.

• Storage Checkpoint Management

You can create and roll back to Storage Checkpoints. You can also mount, unmount, and remove Storage Checkpoints. Storage Checkpoints can be used to clone the database.

• Database FlashSnap

Database FlashSnap functionality is available through the GUI. With Database FlashSnap, you can create online or offline snapshots of your database, which can be used as backups. You can also use these snapshots to recover your database if it becomes corrupt.

• System configuration maintenance

You can convert datafiles to or from Quick I/O files and you can view topology and statistic information. You can also check and save your system configuration.

• Monitoring Agent administration

You can use the GUI to set up, configure, start, and stop a monitoring agent, which can be used to send alarm notifications and automatically grow file systems when space usage exceeds user-defined thresholds.

Prerequisites

• Before running the GUI, you must have appropriate permission to access the GUI. You must make permission changes to allow database administrators to access these tools. The default settings for the /opt/VRTSdbed directory at installation time allows only superuser (root) access to the directory. To make the appropriate permission changes, you will need to use the vxdbedusr utility. See the steps for granting administrative permissions in the section for more information.