This page describes only generic usage dbvcontrol webserver GUI for all database platforms. If you require information for specific task for specific database platform, check relevant dedicated Documentation section. For example for how to execute Oracle Graceful Switchover from dbvcontrol, check the Oracle specific documentation.

1. First Login

To use dbvcontrol webserver interface, you will need to enter following URL into your browser:

Use the hostname or IP of the host where you installed dbvcontrol component and make sure to check dbvcontrol is up and running on that host:

Installation

Starting and Stopping Dbvisit StandbyMP

You will be able to see login page similar to this one:

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Default username: admin

Default password: admin

When logged in for the first time or when no configuration exists, you will be directed to the New Configuration page:

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From which you can proceed.

2. Dbvcontrol options

When using dbvcontrol you can use following options:

Open	DASHBOARD	Provides you with an overview of all of your current configurations and enables you to perform various actions
	NEW CONFIGURATION	Start a guided process to create Oracle, SQL Server or Postgres configuration
	SQL SERVER INSTANCES	Provides interface to add, edit or remove SQL Server instances. This is described in more detail in SQL Server Guide
	USERS	You can add users and modify their roles to dbvcontrol. User are local users only, there’s no interface with AD or LDAP authentication
	TASKS & EVENTS	provides comprehensive task overview with filtering based on configuration
	SETTINGS	User can enable various options for dbvcontrol such as laguage and amount of tasks displayed
	LOGOUT	logs user out

3. Dashboard

Dashboard provides you with complete overview of your configurations, enables you to view the current status and gives you possibility to perform various actions. All three database platforms share same GUI concept, but there are minor differences of each platform.

The dashboard contains full set of information about your DR configurations, current warnings / alerts and an overview of recent tasks.

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Explanation of the whole dashboard:

3.1 ACTIONS Pane

Actions pane becomes visible after clicking on ACTIONS button and is specific to selected DDC:

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The DDC Name (1) specifies for which DDC the available actions (2) will be performed. User can also view & change licensing information (3)

Note that the visible actions are by default limited and defined by current primary and standby database status and also by DDC status. So for example if primary database is down, option to backup & send logs will not be visible. To see complete list of actions including unavailable one, toggle the eye icon (4). Note that you will still be unable to perform the actions:

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3.2 Database Status

Database status displays the actual status of databases. Some database statuses are shared among all 3 platforms, some statuses are specific to certain database platform.

The database roles positions are fixed: source on the left, standby on the right. If databases would switch roles, the server names will be changed, but the source will be always in the left column.

The possible statuses databases can have are:

3.3 Feature Status

Status icons indicate whether various feature are enabled or not for specific configuration. The status icons are grey (not enabled) or blue (enabled):

Open	DR Readiness Score	Counts amount of DR features which are used for specific DDC. The more features used (for example apply delay, notifications … ) the higher the score

Open	DR Readiness Score	Counts amount of DR features which are used for specific DDC. The more features used (for example apply delay, notifications … ) the higher the score
Open	Automated Standby Update	Indicates whether Automated Standby update (ASU) is active
Open	Standby Log Application Delay	Indicates whether Standby Log application delay is active
Open	Observer Active	Indicates whether observer is active
Open	Mail Settings Provided and Mail notifications	Indicates whether email settings were provided and whether the email notification are enabled
Open	Standby Read Only Schedule (SQL Server only)	Indicates if there is read-only schedule active for the SQL Server configuration
Open	Error / Warning	Error, but can be also yellow icon (Warning). Indicates a minor error which needs to be addressed
Open	Number of databases in cluster (Postgresql only)	Indicates the total number of databases are in pgsql primary cluster

There’s always tooltip available with detailed onformation on mouse-over.

3.4 Tasks Pane

If ACTIONS pane is not opened for any DDC, the list of tasks and events will be visible on the right side of the Dashboard. The tasks provide at first glance overview whether the task was successful. Clicking on the task will bring up detailed information:

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It is possible to delete the task and therefore hide it after clicking on “Hide Task” (1)

Events share the pane with tasks. Events can be of various origin: dbvagentmanager, observer and database. Events can be:

• ongoing errors (red)

• ongoing warnings (yellow)

• cleared (green)

• Inactive (greyed-out)

The event is cleared only in case the next check for failed metric is successful. Events can’t be manually cleared.

3.5 Sorting and Filtering

User can sort & filter based on database platform by selecting the appropriate tab (1):

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Or you can bring up more complex filtering pop-up window (2):

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In this case, you can filter displayed DDC configurations based on various criteria and also sort.

3.6 Multiple Configurations Actions

To ease up most frequent administraion tasks, there is a possibility to perform same actions on multiple configurations. This is possible across database platforms, but only some actions can be performed this way. Available Multiple Configuration Actions are:

To perform Multiple Configuration Actions, first select all DDCs you want to perform specific action on:

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Once you select at least two DDCs (1,2) you will be able to see “Open Multiple Configurations Actions” (3). You can cancel the select by clicking on (4) or (5)

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After clicking the Open Multiple Configuration Actions, you will be able to perform specific action for all selected DDCs:

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4. Users

In Users section, new users can be added and it is possible to modify existing and Admin user properties including password.

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Changing the password for admin user is done by entering the password and clicking save (leave blank to keep current password):

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When Adding a new user it is possible to choose from three roles:

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Administrator: same privileges as default “admin” user. Privileges are unrestricted.

Monitor: user is able to perform only actions related to monitoring (read-only), rest of the actions are unavailable. For example:

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Some read-write actions (such as Start/Stop Database in this example screenshot) serve only for checking status or viewing current settings. Any change or modification is not possible.

Operator: same privileges as default “admin” user, except:

• adding and modifying dbvcontrol users

• modifying dbvcontrol settings

• removing DDC configurations from dashboard

• adding SQL Server instances

5. Tasks & Events

This section is an extension of the Tasks & event pane in the dashboard and here you can view complete list of tasks & event while also being able to filter according to entity/task type as well as configuration name:

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6. Settings

Dbvcontrol settings will allow you to disable DR Readiness Score (1) (visible in the dashboard for each DDC), number of stored Events (2), number of stored Tasks (3) and language (4):

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Available Laguages are:

• Chinese (Simplified)

• Chinese (Traditional)

• French

• English (default laguage)

• Japanese

• Spanish

If you change language, you will be logged out.