Starting and Stopping a Capture Process

This topic contains instructions for starting and stopping a capture process in Enterprise Manager.

A capture process might stop automatically if it encounters an error, such as an unsupported data type. When this happens, the error is displayed on the Capture subpage of the Streams page in Enterprise Manager. In this case, you should correct the error and restart the capture process.

Also, it is important to remember that a capture process can capture changes that were made to database objects while the capture process was stopped. These changes are recorded in the redo log, and a capture process finds the changes that it is configured to capture in the redo log after it restarts. If you want to avoid capturing specific changes to database objects, then you should use tags to accomplish this. See "About Tags for Avoiding Change Cycling".

To start or stop a capture process: 

1. In Oracle Enterprise Manager, log in to the database as the Oracle Streams administrator.

2. Go to the Database Home page.

3. Click Data Movement to open the Data Movement subpage.

4. Click Manage Replication in the Streams section.

   The Streams page appears, showing the Overview subpage.

5. Click Streams to open the Streams subpage.

6. Select the capture process that you want to start or stop in the list of components. If necessary, use the search tool to find the capture process, and then select it.

7. In the Action list, select Enable to start a disabled or aborted capture process, or select Disable to stop an enabled capture process.

8. Click Go.

9. If you are disabling the capture process, then click Yes on the confirmation page to finish disabling it.