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You can use BR*Tools for Oracle to show information about control files.

Procedure

  1. Start the procedure using BRGUI or BRTOOLS, or from the command line:

    • BRGUI or BRTOOLS:

      1. Choose   Space management   Additional space functions   Show control files  .

        BRGUI or BRTOOLS displays the menu BRSPACE main options for showing database information, where you specify the options with which you call BRSPACE.

      2. Set the required options:

        Menu Entry

        Equivalent BRSPACE Command Option

        BRSPACE profile (profile)

        -p|-profile

        Database user/password (user)

        -u|-user

        Database file (file)

        -f dbshow -f|-file

        Create log file (log)

        -f dbshow -l|-log

        Confirmation mode (confirm)

        -c|-confirm

        Scrolling line count (scroll)

        -s|-scroll

        Message language (language)

        -l|-language

        BRSPACE command line (command)

        This shows you the BRSPACE -f dbshow -c cfinfo command that is to be executed using the current settings.

      3. Choose Continue

        BRGUI or BRTOOLS prompts you to start BRSPACE.

      4. Choose Continue to start BRSPACE.

    • Command line:

      Enter at least the following command:

      brspace -f dbshow -c cfinfo

      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 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   Show database space information   Show control files  .

    End of the note.

  2. If you have already entered the control file name, continue with step 4.

    BRSPACE displays the List of database control files:

    List Entry

    Meaning

    Pos.

    List sequence number

    Size [KB]

    Control file size

    Device

    Disk device ID for the control file

    Type

    Control file type: raw device or file system

    File

    Control file name

  3. To see more information, select one or more control files.

    Example 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.

    End of the example.

    BRSPACE displays Information about control file:

    List Entry

    Meaning

    Control file type (type)

    Control file type: raw device or file system

    Device device Id (device)

    Disk device ID for the control file

    Control file size in KB (size)

    Control file size

  4. If you specified multiple control files, choose Continue to scroll through.

Result

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