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Chapter 5. Monitoring
RHN Satellite Server contains many different components, many of which can be monitored. This chapter outlines ways of performing monitoring operations for different areas of the system.
Procedure 5.1. Monitoring Tablespace
- In Oracle databases, it is important to regularly check that the tablespaces have sufficient free space. Do this by switching user to the
Oracleuser, and issuing thedb-control reportcommand:su - oracle db-control report Tablespace Size Used Avail Use% DATA_TBS 4.8G 3.9G 996M 80% SYSTEM 250M 116M 133M 46% TOOLS 128M 3M 124M 2% UNDO_TBS 1000M 61M 938M 6% USERS 128M 64K 127M 0%
- If a tablespace is becoming full, it can be extended using the
db-control extendcommand with the name of the tablespace to be extended:db-control extend tablespace
Procedure 5.2. Monitoring RHN Satellite Server Processes
- Verify that the Satellite processes are working using the
rhn-satellite statuscommand:rhn-satellite status

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