Monitoring a UNIX Server
DBAs managing Oracle databases on UNIX servers sometimes need the ability to monitor their UNIX boxes. Although some versions of UNIX provide a monitor you that can run on the server itself, this typically requires a graphical UNIX terminal or running an X-Windows server on your PC. However, some DBAs would prefer to monitor their UNIX servers from their PC without the overhead of X-Windows. Thus TOAD offers its Unix Monitor screen shown in Figure 6.68 and located on the main menu at DBA|OS Utilities|UNIX Monitor. It works for the following UNIX variants: Linux, Solaris, HPUX, AIX, and Tru64. This screen functions by making rexec calls to the database server. So you may need to create a “.rhosts” file on the UNIX server ...
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