Database Reference
In-Depth Information
The other option that can be of use is Repository Synchronization, which opens the page shown in Figure
3-20
.
Hopefully, you shouldn't need to use this very often. It's basically used to monitor resynchronization operations
(initiated via an
emctl resync repos -full
command) between agents and the repository, after the repository
has been restored from backup. You can't start the command from here, as the OMS needs to be down when the
command is issued (remember, the OMS renders the console user interface, so you can't get to this page then).
However, once the command is executed, you can restart the OMS and monitor the progress of the resynchronization
from this screen.
Figure 3-20.
The Repository Synchronization page
There are two other locations where you can see information about the repository from the console. One is
the Health Overview page discussed before, which includes a section on the repository. The information there
really doesn't add more detail to what you've already seen on the repository home page, so let's ignore that for now.
The other option, of course, is simply to drill into the repository as a database target. If you know the name of the
repository database, you can simply type it into the Search Target Name field at the top-right side of the screen.
Alternatively, you can simply click Targets
➤
Databases and then click the database name. That takes you to the
standard Database home page, shown in Figure
3-21
. Most of these features are ones you should probably be already
familiar with from previous releases, even if the user interface is unfamiliar. (By the way, just in case you've picked
up on the seeming lack of backup for the repository in these screenshots, it's a fairly ad-hoc system running in
NOARCHIVELOG
mode, so I just use cold backups via
tar
when necessary.)
