Cisco Headend System Release 2.7 Installation Guide
Chapter 2 DNCS Pre-Upgrade Procedures
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Check and Remove Sessions
Introduction
After you have obtained your system configuration, your next step is to check the
BFS QAM for the number of sessions and to remove any completed or orphaned
sessions. This check is done both before and after the installation process is complete
to provide a comparison of the number of sessions. This comparison indicates a
successful upgrade by ensuring the correct number of sessions were built after the
upgrade process is complete.
BFS QAM for the number of sessions and to remove any completed or orphaned
sessions. This check is done both before and after the installation process is complete
to provide a comparison of the number of sessions. This comparison indicates a
successful upgrade by ensuring the correct number of sessions were built after the
upgrade process is complete.
Checking the BFS Sessions on the BFS QAM
Complete the following steps to check and record the number of pre-upgrade BFS
sessions.
1 Choose one of the following options to check the number of BFS sessions:
sessions.
1 Choose one of the following options to check the number of BFS sessions:
Press the Options button on the front panel of the BFS QAM until the Session
Count total appears.
Count total appears.
Type /dvs/dncs/bin/auditQam -query <IPAddr> 2 and press Enter.
Important! You must be logged in as dncs user.
Note: <IPAddr> is the IP address of the data QAM.
Important! You must be logged in as dncs user.
Note: <IPAddr> is the IP address of the data QAM.
2 Record the Session Count total in the space provided. __________
Removing Completed or Orphaned Sessions
Complete the following steps to remove completed or orphaned sessions by running
the clearDbSessions utility.
the clearDbSessions utility.
Note: The clearDbSessions utility takes several minutes to complete and can be
running in the background as you complete the remaining procedures in this
chapter.
1 If necessary, open an xterm window on the DNCS.
2 Type clearDbSessions and then press Enter. The system removes all completed
running in the background as you complete the remaining procedures in this
chapter.
1 If necessary, open an xterm window on the DNCS.
2 Type clearDbSessions and then press Enter. The system removes all completed
session, resource, and network graph records more than 1 hour old from the
database.
database.
3 Type clearDbSessions -c and then press Enter. The system removes all
completed session, resource, and network graph records from the database.
4 Type clearDbSessions -o and then press Enter. The system removes orphaned
records from the database.