Managing Time; Modifying Oracle Dbstart And Dbshut Scripts - Novell SENTINEL 6.1 SP2 - INSTALLATION GUIDE 02-2010 Installation Manual

3.9.6 Managing Time

Novell strongly recommends that all Sentinel components, particularly the Correlation Engine and
Collector Manager machines, be connected to an NTP (Network Time Protocol) server or other type
of time server. If the system time across machines is not synchronized, the Sentinel Correlation
Engine and Active Views do not work properly. The events from the Collector Managers are not
considered to be real-time and are therefore sent directly to the Sentinel database, bypassing the
Sentinel Control Centers and Correlation Engines.
By default, the threshold for real-time data is 120 seconds. This can be modified by changing the
value of
esecurity.router.event.realtime.expiration
file. The Sentinel event time populates based on the Trust Device Time or the Collector Manager
Time. You can select the Trust Device Time while configuring a collector. The Trust Device Time is
the time when the log was generated by the device and the Collector Manager Time is the local
system time of the Collector Manager system.

3.9.7 Modifying Oracle dbstart and dbshut scripts

Sentinel cannot start the Oracle 10 database because of errors in the Oracle
scripts. For details on the script errors, see
numbers 336299.1 with the subject "dbstart errors out when executing in 10.2.0.1.0", 5183726 and
4665320.
After the installation of Sentinel 6.1, you need to modify the
Sentinel to start an Oracle 10 database.
To modify the dbstart and dbshut scripts on Solaris 10:
1 In a text editor, open the
2 Go to line 78 and replace the line with
3 Add at the start to request the bash shell.
#!/bin/bash
4 Ensure that ORATAB is pointing to
If ORATAB is not in this location on your system, modify the ORATAB path manually to the
correct location.
5 Click Save.
6 In a text editor, open the
7 Ensure that ORATAB is pointing to
If ORATAB is not in this location on your system, modify the ORATAB path manually to the
correct location.
8 Click Save.
To modify the dbstart script on Red Hat Linux ES4:
1 In a text editor, open
2 Ensure that ORATAB is pointing to
If ORATAB is not in this location on your system, modify the ORATAB path manually to the
correct location.
3 Click Save.
Oracle Support (https://metalink.oracle.com)
script from
dbstart
ORACLE_HOME_LISTNER=$ORACLE_HOME
ORATAB=/var/opt/oracle/oratab
script from
dbshut $ORACLE_HOME/bin/dbshut
ORATAB=/var/opt/oracle/oratab
script from
dbstart $ORACLE_HOME/bin/dbstart
ORATAB=/etc/oratab
in the
event-router.properties
dbstart
and
dbstart dbshut
$ORACLE_HOME/bin/dbstart
.
and
dbshut
for the error
scripts for
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