Start the Provisioning Daemon

The Procedure Manager allows you to view, edit, run, and monitor deployment procedures. Deployment procedures are best practices provided by Oracle for various provisioning tasks.

In order for the Deployment Procedure Manager to function properly, the Provisioning Daemon job should be running. This job is used to monitor the status of running deployment procedures. You can start or stop a job and also view the status of the job using the pafctl utility. You can find this utility in the $ORACLE_HOME/bin directory. The syntax for this utility is as follows:

pafctl { start │ stop │ status } [sysman_password] [interval]

The keywords for this command indicate the following:

• start— Starts the Provisioning Daemon job. This takes the interval value from the command line. If no interval is specified in the command line, you will have to enter a value, which is the interval (in minutes) with which to run the Provisioning Daemon job.

• stop— Stop the Provisioning Daemon job.

• status—Checks if the Provisioning Daemon job is running.

• sysman_password—You must specify the SYSMAN password to connect to the repository. If not specified at the command line, you will be prompted to enter the value.

• interval—This is an integer that specifies the interval (in minutes) for which to run the Provisioning Daemon job. The default interval is 3 minutes. To specify a value that is not the default value, you must use the start action. You will then be prompted for both the SYSMAN user password and the interval.

To start the Provisioning Daemon job, enter the following command at the operating system prompt"

$ pafctl start
Enter the repository user password:
Enter interval [default 3]: