System Utilities
Vector system utilities monitor aspects of the installation for troubleshooting or other special purposes. The system utilities are not needed for normal operation and are generally used with the help and advice of Actian Support. For more information about system utilities see the Command Reference.
Day-to-day Vector commands follow:
Command | Name | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|
vwinfo | Vector database information utility | Lists information on the database, including various statistics, configuration settings, and disk usage of Vector tables. | |
cacheutil | Shared Buffer Cache Utility | Lists status information on active shared memory segments; can also be used to deallocate an inactive shared memory buffer cache | |
Windows: | ipcclean | Shared Memory Allocation | Deallocates shared memory  |
Linux: | csinstall, cscleanup, ipcclean csreport | Shared Memory Allocation | Allocates, deallocates, and lists status of Linux shared memory and semaphore resources. Allocation is based on the value assigned II_LG_MEMSIZE.  |
iimonitor | Server Maintenance Utility | Lists DBMS server information; also allows a privileged user to stop the server or an active session | |
iinamu | Name Server Utility | Lists current servers; also allows a privileged user to add and delete servers | |
lartool | Logging, archiving and recovery tool | Allows the system administrator to manually abort or commit a distributed transaction involved in two-phase commit protocol | |
lockstat, logstat | Locking, Logging Status | Display information from the locking or logging system. These functions are replaced by the forms-based ipm utility. | |
rcpconfig | Logging/ Locking Configuration | Manipulate log files or shut down the logging/locking systems (RCP module) | |
ija | Logging, archiving, and recovery tool | Allows the system administrator to manually abort or commit a transaction involved in two-phase commit protocol |
Last modified date: 11/09/2022