Dbvisit Standby Reporting

The Dbvisit Standby database repository (DDR) can be queried to obtain information about the standby database process. There are three methods to report on the information contained in the DDR:

1. Using the reporting option within the web-based version of Dbvisit Standby. See Web-based reporting below for more information.

1. Using SQL to obtain information about the standby database update process. The Dbvisit Standby database repository schema is by default the Oracle schema called dbvisit. Please see below for an example of a SQL repository query.
2. Using the Dbvisit Standby supplied utility called dbv_functions. The option -N will extract information from the DDR. Type dbv_functions -h for help on the command and to show the different options.

Example:

 dbv_functions -N dbvisitp 
 Dbvisit Database configuration (DDC) file dbv_dbvisitp.env. 
 <<<<DBV_TRANSFER_LOG>>>> 
 oracle_sid => dbvisitp 
 sequence# => 3718 
 thread_num => 
 log_id => 562150315 
 archive_name => /oracle/oraarch/dbvisitp/1_3718_0562150315.log.gz 
 process_id => 19547 
 process => TRANSFER 
 timestamp => 200901221633 
 datestamp => 2009/01/22:16:33 
 start_time_date => 2009/01/22:16:34 
 end_time_date => 2009/01/22:16:34 
 source_host => dbvisit12 
 destination_host => dbvisit11 
 checksum => 1186970607 
 size_in_bytes => 22944 
 size_in_mb => .02 
 process_completed => Y

Information about the DDR

The DDR is a small repository and should not take more than about 10MB in space. The DDR is not automatically archived and may grow over time. An archiving process can be setup to remove old entries.
The repository contains the following tables which may be queried (or archived):

Do not update any entries or modify the structure of these tables.

Web-based reporting

The web-based version of Dbvisit Standby provides extensive reporting on the transfer and log gap reporting. Full online help is available for each graph. The following graphs are available:

1. Archive log transfer time which displays the transfer time in seconds over time.

2. Archive log gaps, which displays the archive log gap and transfer log gap.

3. Compression ratio if the archive log files are compressed.

4. Transfer log size which displays the size of the transferred log files over time.

5. Daily redo size over time.

6. Daily archive log transfers which displays the number of archive transferred each day.

7. Standby Database Sync Status Report shows  fine grained detail on the differences between the primary and the standby database. The report includes current SCNs of primary and standby databases with time, and which SCN and sequence is required by standby database for recovery.

Example SQL repository queries

1. The following query will report on the duration of the transfer and compress steps each time Dbvisit Standby has executed. The result of this query may be graphed and used for trend analysis:

SELECT datestamp,
oracle_sid,
process,
round(decode(size_in_bytes,-1,size_in_bytes,size_in_bytes/1024/1024),1) Size_MB,
(end_time_date-start_time_date)*246060 duration_seconds
FROM dbvisit.dbv_transfer_log
ORDER BY 
datestamp,
process

2. The following query will report on the archive log gap over time. Note that the archive log gap information is only saved if the dbvisit -icommand (inspect) is scheduled on a regular basis:

SELECT oracle_sid,datestamp,archive_log_gap FROM dbvisit.dbv_sequence_log ORDER BY datestamp;