CONTENTS

  Title Page

  Copyright Page

  Preface

  Technical Changes and New Features

  1      Introduction

  1.1     For the New Database Administrator

  1.2     Availability Features of Rdb/VMS
    1.2.1      Online Backups
    1.2.2      Online By-Area Restore, Recovery, and Move Operations
    1.2.3      VAXcluster and Network-Wide Automatic Recovery
    1.2.4      Automatic Cleanup
    1.2.5      Online DBA Activities
    1.2.6      Offline DBA Activities
    1.2.7      DBA Activities Requiring Database Reload
    1.2.8      Quick and Automatic Database Recovery
    1.2.9      Database Integrity
    1.2.10     Checking Database Integrity and Evaluating Performance

  1.3     Database Maintenance Operations

  1.4     Creating Sample Single-File and Multifile Databases

  2      Monitoring Your Rdb/VMS Databases

  2.1     Rdb/VMS Monitor Process
    2.1.1      Starting and Stopping the Monitor Process Interactively
    2.1.2      Renaming the Monitor Log File
    2.1.3      Changing the Monitor Process Priority
    2.1.4      Reopening the Monitor Log File
    2.1.5      Reading the Monitor Log File

  2.2     Listing Active User Information

  2.3     Displaying Clusterwide User Information

  2.4     Information About Database Characteristics

  3      Security Auditing in Rdb/VMS

  3.1     An Overview of Rdb/VMS Security Auditing
    3.1.1      Default Security Auditing and RMU Security Auditing Commands
    3.1.2      Use of VMS Security Auditing