About Management and Monitoring Utilities

    Greenplum command-line utilities are located in the $GPHOME/bin directory and are executed on the master host. Greenplum provides utilities for the following administration tasks:

    • Installing Greenplum Database on an array
    • Initializing a Greenplum Database System
    • Starting and stopping Greenplum Database
    • Expanding the array and redistributing tables among new segments
    • Managing recovery for failed segment instances
    • Managing failover and recovery for a failed master instance
    • Loading data in parallel
    • Transferring data between Greenplum databases
    • System state reporting

    VMware provides an optional system monitoring and management tool, Greenplum Command Center, which administrators can install and enable with Greenplum Database. Greenplum Command Center, which depends upon the database, provides a web-based user interface for viewing the system metrics and allows administrators to perform additional system management tasks. For more information about Greenplum Command Center, see the Greenplum Command Center documentation.

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