The checks and verification is to detect and correct potentially critical problems before these lead to downtime of the production database.
** Tested with UNIX / Linux operating system.
1. Login to your operating system. Switch user to ORASID. Execute BRTOOLS command. Select 6 for Check and verification.
BR*Tools main menu 1 = Instance management 2 - Space management 3 - Segment management 4 - Backup and database copy 5 - Restore and recovery 6 - Check and verification 7 - Database statistics 8 - Additional functions 9 - Exit program
2. Select 1 for Database system check. At here, you may just use the default settings. Press ‘c’ to continue.
Database check and verification 1 = Database system check 2 - Validation of database structure 3 - Verification of database blocks 4 - Reset program status
BRCONNECT main options for database system check 1 - BRCONNECT profile (profile) .......... [initSID.sap] 2 - Database user/password (user) ........ [/] 3 - Use default check settings (default) . [no] 4 ~ Database owner for check (owner) ..... [] 5 ~ Exclude from check (exclude) ......... []
3. Next is the Additional BRCONNECT options for database system check. You may also just use the default settings. Press ‘c’ to continue.
Additional BRCONNECT options for database system check 1 - Confirmation mode (confirm) ...... [yes] 2 - Query mode (query) ............... [no] 3 - Extended output (output) ......... [no] 4 - Message language (language) ...... [E] 5 - BRCONNECT command line (command) . [-p initSID.sap -l E -f check]
4. The database system check will start. Press ‘c’ again to continue. Wait till the execution process is done.
BR0663I Your choice: 'c' BR0259I Program execution will be continued... BR0291I BRCONNECT will be started with options '-p initSID.sap -l E -f check'
