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Optional EVT Command Line Flags


You can run the EVT utility with various options as described in Table 21.

NOTE:  If you do not provide -e, -g, -s, -u, and -p options, EVT tries to query information from the configuration files under the ENU directory. On Windows, -r is a required flag; all other flags are optional.

Table 21. Command-Line Flags Used with EVT
Flag
Description

-h

Prints a help message with a list of all the flags you can use with the EVT utility.

-g

Name of the Siebel Gateway Name Server. If not provided, EVT picks up the name of the Siebel Gateway Name Server from the Siebel Server configuration file; for example, enu\siebel.cfg.

-s

Name of the Siebel Server. If not provided, EVT tries to determine the name of the server from the siebenv.bat file.

-e

Name of the Enterprise Server. If not provided, EVT determines the name of the Enterprise Server from the Siebel Server configuration file; for example, enu\siebel.cfg.

-u

Username to use to log in to Server Manager. The default username is sadmin.

-p

Password to log in to Server Manager. The default password is sadmin.

NOTE:  If any srvrmgr parameters are provided incorrectly, EVT will not be able to check Siebel Server parameters. To print the details of root cause, use the -d SHOWERRORS flag.

-r

Required. Specifies the path to the SIEBEL_ROOT directory.

-o

Format of the output. EVT can generate outputs in several formats: TEXT (default), TEXTFILE, HTML, and HTMLFILE. For details, see Available EVT Output Formats.

-d

Run the script in debug mode. Supported debug levels are shown in order of verbosity, starting with the least verbose level (see examples of this flag as follows):

DEFAULT. (Default) Prints only check for pass/fail/not executed.

EXPLAIN. Prints description of what has been checked and why. If a check could not be run, no explanation is given. If a check executed and found an error, it would report the corrective actions to be taken.

SHOWERRORS. Prints the same information as EXPLAIN, but, in addition, prints any errors encountered that prevented a check from executing. For example, if the check included verification of a particular file having been executed, but the file does not exist, SHOWERRORS provides the error that prevented execution.

SHOWCOMMENTS. Prints the same output as SHOWERRORS, but, in addition, prints more detailed information about how the check was implemented. The output is essentially debug information, for example: Got value A from file X.

EVTLOG. Prints the same output as SHOWCOMMENTS, but, in addition, prints the execution log for EVT. This output is primarily useful to EVT developers.

-l

Output directory to which reports are written.

-t

Type of server to check:

  • Siebel Server [SIEBSRVR]
  • Siebel Gateway Name Server [GTWYNS]
  • Database Server (RDBMS) [DBSERVER]
  • Siebel Web Server Extension [SWSE]

For example, if -t SWSE is specified, then EVT runs only Web server-related checks (and those checks that can be run on any type of server, such as for JRE).

-f

Location of the evt.ini file. When EVT is launched, it verifies the existence of this file. By default, the evt.ini file is located in the same directory as the EVT executable program. If the evt.ini file is located in a different directory, or has a different name, you must use this flag to specify the location of the evt.ini file.

-q

Run EVT in query mode. See Running EVT in Query Mode.

-w

Location of the Web server installation.

Example 1

Launching EVT using a custom .ini file and generating HTML output:

evt.exe -f evt_cust.ini -o HTML -r SIEBEL_ROOT_DIR > output.htm

Example 2

Launching EVT using a custom .ini file and generating HTML output with details on what commands were run, what files were opened, and so on:

evt.exe -f evt_cust.ini -o HTML -d SHOWCOMMENTS -r SIEBEL_ROOT_DIR > output_debug.htm

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