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Launching the EVT Utility

The EVT executable program (evt) is installed under the bin subdirectory of $SIEBSRVR_ROOT. You can run this executable with different options selected, based on what part of your environment you want to check.

For details on how to use EVT on previous releases, see Technical Note 467 on Siebel SupportWeb.

Review the following topics to determine how to edit the evt.ini file and to use command-line options:

• About the EVT Configuration File
• Optional EVT Command Line Flags
• Available EVT Output Formats
• Launching the EVT Utility

To launch EVT

1. Verify that permissions for the evt executable program are set to 755.
2. The evt.ini file contains all the approved checks. If you need to add any checks or modify any of the existing checks, make a copy of the file and make your modification in the new file. Then use the -f option, as described in Table 23, to point EVT to use the new configuration file. For details on content of the evt.ini file see About the EVT Configuration File.
3. Navigate to $SIEBEL_ROOT and source the Siebel environment variables, using one of the following commands, depending on the type of shell you use:

   Korn or Bourne shell

   . ./siebenv.sh

   TIP:   Make sure there is a space between the initial period and ./siebenv.sh.

   C shell

   source siebenv.csh

4. Make $SIEBSRVR_ROOT/bin the current directory.
5. Enter an EVT command. Include any desired flags, as described in Optional EVT Command Line Flags.

   ./evt

Example

Launching EVT using custom .ini and generating HTML output:

./evt -f evt_cust.ini -o HTML > output.html

Launching EVT with -f, -o, and -d options to use custom .ini, generate HTML output with details on what command were run, what files were opened, and so on:

./evt -f evt_cust.ini -o HTML -d SHOWCOMMENTS > output_debug.html