list config
Use the list config command to view a list of all active and inactive configurations on a source system.
The command displays the following information:
- File Name: The name of the configuration, the time and date that it was modified, and the size of the file.
- State: Whether the configuration is active or inactive. Active means the configuration file is currently involved in replication. Inactive means the configuration is not currently involved in replication.
- Datasource: The Oracle instance containing the objects being replicated by the configuration.
- Internal Name: The name of the internal copy of the active configuration. This is the file that SharePlex actually replicates from. Its name is displayed under the State heading wherever there is an active configuration.
Usage
| Supported sources: |
Oracle |
| Supported targets: |
All |
| Authorization level: |
Viewer (3) |
| Issued for: |
source system |
| Related commands: |
view config, show config |
Syntax
| list config |
[ on host |
on host:portnumber |
on login/password@host |
on login/password@host:portnumber ] |
Remote options
These options enable you to issue the command on a remote machine and to script commands that include a login name, password, port number, or combination of those items.
| on host |
Execute the command on a remote system (one other than the one where the current sp_ctrl session is running). You are prompted for login credentials for the remote system. If used, must be the last component of the command syntax.
Example: sp_ctrl(sysB)>status on SysA |
| on host:portnumber |
Execute the command on a remote system when a remote login and port number must be provided. If used, must be the last component of the command syntax.
Example: sp_ctrl(sysB)>status on SysA:8304 |
| on login/password@host |
Execute the command on a remote system when a remote login, password, and host name must be provided. If used, must be the last component of the command syntax.
Example:sp_ctrl(sysB)>status on john/spot5489@SysA |
| on login/password@host:portnumber |
Execute the command on a remote system when a remote login, password, host name, and port number must be provided. If used, must be the last component of the command syntax.
Example: sp_ctrl(sysB)>status on john/spot5489@SysA:8304 |
list param
Use the list param command to display SharePlex tuning parameters. Without options, the command displays the basic (user configurable) parameters and their current settings.
Options are available for displaying:
Parameters are grouped by module, each module representing a functional component of the software. The following table lists the modules that contain user-configurable parameters (which can be changed without guidance from Quest).
SharePlex parameter modules
| analyze |
SP_ANL |
analyze config command |
| cap |
SP_CAP |
Non-Oracle Capture |
| capture |
SP_OCT or SP_CAP |
Capture process |
| compare |
SP_DEQ or SP_CMP |
compare commands |
| config |
SP_OCF |
configuration activation process |
| cop |
SP_COP |
sp_cop |
| copy |
SP_OSY or SP_CPY |
the copy/ append commands |
| export |
SP_XPT |
Export process |
| import |
SP_IMP |
Import process |
| logging |
SP_SLG |
the SNMP feature |
| post |
SP_OPO or SP_OPX |
Post process |
| queue |
SP_QUE |
the SharePlex queues |
| read |
SP_ORD |
Read process |
| SNMP |
SP_SNMP |
SNMP support |
| system |
SP_SYS |
system-related items |
Each list param display provides the parameter’s:
- Parameter Name
- Actual Value: the parameter’s current setting and its default value, if different.
Note: Only up to 36 characters are displayed for this field.
- Units: the parameter’s unit of measurement, such as seconds, kilobytes, or operations.
- Set-At point: the point where the parameter becomes active when you issue the set param command, either immediately after the parameter is set, after the affected process is restarted, or after sp_cop is restarted.
Usage
| Supported sources: |
Oracle |
| Supported targets: |
All |
| Authorization level: |
Viewer (3) |
| Issued for: |
source or target system |
| Related commands: |
set param, reset param |
Syntax
| list param |
[basic | all | modified] [module] |
[ on host |
on host:portnumber |
on login/password@host |
on login/password@host:portnumber ] |
Syntax description
| basic |
This option displays parameters that can be set by users without guidance from a Quest support engineer or technical specialist.
Example:
sp_ctrl(sysA)> list param basic |
| all |
This option displays all of the SharePlex parameters, including basic (user-configurable) parameters and internal parameters (whose settings you should not change without guidance from Quest).
Example:
sp_ctrl(sysA)> list param all |
| modified |
This option lists the user-configurable and internal parameters that have been modified from their default values.
Example:
sp_ctrl(sysA)> list param modified |
| module |
This option constrains the output to parameters for a specific module. See SharePlex parameter modules.
This option, if used, must appear after the list param [all | modified] syntax.
Example:
sp_ctrl> list param all post
In this example, SharePlex displays all parameters for the Post process. |
Remote options
These options enable you to issue the command on a remote machine and to script commands that include a login name, password, port number, or combination of those items.
| on host |
Execute the command on a remote system (one other than the one where the current sp_ctrl session is running). You are prompted for login credentials for the remote system. If used, must be the last component of the command syntax.
Example: sp_ctrl(sysB)>status on SysA |
| on host:portnumber |
Execute the command on a remote system when a remote login and port number must be provided. If used, must be the last component of the command syntax.
Example: sp_ctrl(sysB)>status on SysA:8304 |
| on login/password@host |
Execute the command on a remote system when a remote login, password, and host name must be provided. If used, must be the last component of the command syntax.
Example:sp_ctrl(sysB)>status on john/spot5489@SysA |
| on login/password@host:portnumber |
Execute the command on a remote system when a remote login, password, host name, and port number must be provided. If used, must be the last component of the command syntax.
Example: sp_ctrl(sysB)>status on john/spot5489@SysA:8304 |
lstatus
lstatus command
Use the lstatus command to view detailed information about the status of replication on a source or target system. This command is the most comprehensive information command in sp_ctrl. To view a brief status of replication, use the status command.
The lstatus command displays:
- The status of the replication processes, including their associated queues.
- The operating system process ID of each process.
- When the process started.
- The machine where the process is running.
- The number of messages (SQL or SharePlex operations) in the queues and their age.
- Whether the machine is a source or target system.
- Events that took place since sp_cop started.
- A list of active configurations.
The lstatus command also provides information about the queues, including:
- Type: The kind of queue that it is (capture queue, export queue, post queue).
- Queue name: The name of the queue, either a default name or the user-assigned name of a named queue.
- # Messages: The number of messages in the queue. A message approximately corresponds to a SQL operation, but there can be multiple messages for one operation on a LONG or LOB column. Conversely, there could be one message for numerous operations in an array insert.
- Size: The current size of the queue. This varies with the amount of data.
- Age: The time difference between when the oldest and newest messages in the queue were written to that queue.
- Oldest Msg Time: The date and time the oldest message entered the queue.
- Newest Msg Time: The date and time the newest message entered the queue.
The lstatus command also provides other information, such as how the system is being used, its configuration activity, and errors that occurred.
Understanding the SharePlex queues
The following will help you understand the statistics for the SharePlex queues.
Queue size
Although SharePlex uses memory for the queues, the data is periodically written to disk as part of the checkpoint recovery system. The default size for SharePlex queue files is 8 MB. However, queue files are sparse files, meaning that from a system standpoint the file size is 8 MB, but the filesystem might only allocate part of the file for data written to the queues.
That is why the qstatus command can show a queue size of less than 8 MB, but what you see with qstatus is NOT the true indication of the actual file size. To predict disk space usage for the queue files, use the information from qstatus and not the filesystem.
Number of queues
It is normal for the capture and export queues to have fewer queue files than the post queue. Data that resides in one queue file on the source system is separated into multiple sub-queue files on the target system, each approximately corresponding to a user session on the source system.
Names of queues
Queue names are case-sensitive on all platforms. The following explains the naming conventions for SharePlex queues.
- Default capture queues are identified by their datasource, which is expressed as o.SourceSID, for example o.ora64.
- Default export queues are identified by the source system's name, for example SysA.
- Default post queues are identified by the name of the source system appended with datasource-datadestination, where datasource is o.sourceSid and datadestination is o.targetSID, for example lajolla (o.ora10a-o.ora10b).
- Named export and post queues are identified by their user-assigned names, not the default name. For more information about named queues, see the SharePlex Administration Guide.
Usage
| Supported sources: |
Oracle |
| Supported targets: |
All |
| Authorization level: |
Viewer (3) |
| Issued for: |
source or target system |
| Related commands: |
qstatus, show, show statusdb, status |
Syntax
| lstatus |
[ on host |
on host:portnumber |
on login/password@host |
on login/password@host:portnumber ] |
Remote options
These options enable you to issue the command on a remote machine and to script commands that include a login name, password, port number, or combination of those items.
| on host |
Execute the command on a remote system (one other than the one where the current sp_ctrl session is running). You are prompted for login credentials for the remote system. If used, must be the last component of the command syntax.
Example: sp_ctrl(sysB)>status on SysA |
| on host:portnumber |
Execute the command on a remote system when a remote login and port number must be provided. If used, must be the last component of the command syntax.
Example: sp_ctrl(sysB)>status on SysA:8304 |
| on login/password@host |
Execute the command on a remote system when a remote login, password, and host name must be provided. If used, must be the last component of the command syntax.
Example:sp_ctrl(sysB)>status on john/spot5489@SysA |
| on login/password@host:portnumber |
Execute the command on a remote system when a remote login, password, host name, and port number must be provided. If used, must be the last component of the command syntax.
Example: sp_ctrl(sysB)>status on john/spot5489@SysA:8304 |
modify partition
Use the modify partition command to modify a row partition of a partition scheme in a horizontally partitioned replication configuration.
Reactivate the configuration file if the command affects a table that is already being replicated. SharePlex will only lock tables for which there are configuration changes.
For more information about how to configure horizontally partitioned replication, see the SharePlex Administration Guide.
Usage
Syntax
|
modify partition in scheme_name
set
keyword = value
[and keyword = value]
[...]
where
keyword = value
[and keyword = value]
[...] |
Not available |
Syntax description
Note: See Add partition for additional descriptions of these options.
| scheme_name |
The name of the partition scheme. Do not modify this component, or the row partition will shift to a new partition scheme. |
| keyword |
Any of the following syntax components except scheme_name. |
| condition |
Column condition that defines a row partition. The condition and hash components are mutually exclusive. |
| hash |
Hash count that specifies the number of row partitions that SharePlex will create based on the rowid hash-based partition scheme. The hash and condition components are mutually exclusive. |
| route |
The routing map for this partition. |
| tablename |
Fully qualified target table name. |
| name |
Short name of this partition. |
| description |
Description of this partition. |
Examples
sp_ctrl> modify partition in scheme1 set condition = "C1 > 400" and route = sysc:q1@o.orasid where name = q1
sp_ctrl> modify partition in scheme1 set condition = "C1 > 400" where condition = "C1 > 300"
sp_ctrl> modify partition in scheme1 set hash = 5 where hash = 4
