You can use BR*Tools for Oracle to show information about online redo log files.
Start the procedure using BRGUI or BRTOOLS, or from the command line:
BRGUI or BRTOOLS:
Choose
:BRGUI or BRTOOLS displays the menu BRSPACE main options for showing database information, where you specify the options with which you call BRSPACE.
Set the required options:
Menu Entry |
Equivalent BRSPACE Command Option |
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BRSPACE profile (profile) |
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Database user/password (user) |
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Database file (file) |
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Create log file (log) |
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Confirmation mode (confirm) |
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Scrolling line count (scroll) |
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Message language (language) |
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BRSPACE command line (command) |
This shows you the BRSPACE -f dbshow -c rfinfo command that is to be executed using the current settings. |
Choose Continue
BRGUI or BRTOOLS prompts you to start BRSPACE.
Choose Continue to start BRSPACE.
Command line:
Enter at least the following command:
brspace -f dbshow -c rfinfo
You can enter more parameters if required. For more information, see BRSPACE -f dbshow.
BRSPACE starts and you see a message that includes Start of BRSPACE processing. From now on, BRSPACE writes a detail log if you set the option Create log file (parameter -l|-log).
Note
If you started BRSPACE from the command line without the information class name (-c|-class) – that is, with brspace -f dbshow – BRSPACE displays the Show database information main menu.
Choose
.If you have already entered the redo log file name, continue with step 4.
BRSPACE displays the List of database online redolog files:
List Entry |
Meaning |
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Pos. |
List sequence number |
Status |
Redo log file status |
Group |
Redo log group number |
Thrd |
Redo log thread number |
Size[KB] |
Redo log file size |
Device |
Disk device ID for the redo log file |
Type |
Redo log file type: raw device or file system |
File |
Redo log file name |
To see more information, select one or more redo log files.
Example
These examples apply only to input in character mode.
To select the first three entries in the list, enter 1-3.
To select the first and third entries, enter 1,3.
To select the first three entries and the fifth, enter 1-3,5.
To select all entries, enter 0.
BRSPACE displays Information about online redolog file:
List Entry |
Meaning |
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Redolog group number (group) |
Redo log group number |
Redolog thread number (thread) |
Redo log thread number |
Redolog file status (status) |
Redo log file status |
Redolog file type (type) |
Redo log file type: raw device or file system |
Disk device Id (device) |
Disk device ID for the redo log file |
Redolog file size in KB (size) |
Redo log file size |
If you specified multiple redo log files, choose Continue to scroll through.
If you set the option Create log file (parameter -l|-log), check the results in the BRSPACE logs.
The summary log space<DBSID>.log displays the return code.
The detail log s<encoded timestamp>.dbw displays the details.
For more information on how to view the logs with BR*Tools, see Showing Logs and Profiles with BR*Tools