Recovery Manager Command Syntax

send

Syntax

Purpose

To send a vendor-specific quoted string to one or more specific channels. See your media management documentation to determine which commands are supported.

Requirements

Execute send at the RMAN prompt or within the braces of a run command.
You must use a media manager to use send and only with the commands supported by the media manager. The contents of the quoted string are not interpreted by Oracle, but are passed unaltered to the media management sub-system.

Keywords and Parameters

command

specifies a vendor-specific media management command. See your media management documentation to determine which commands are supported.

device type deviceSpecifier

specifies the type of storage device and sends the command to all channels of the specified type. See "deviceSpecifier".

channel channel_id

specifies which channel to use. If you do not specify this keyword, RMAN uses all allocated channels. You must specify a channel id, which is the name of the channel, after the channel keyword. Oracle uses the channel id with the release channel command and also to report I/O errors.

parms 'channel_parms'

specifies parameters affecting the device you have allocated. Do not use this port-specific string if you have specified type disk.
If you use parms in conjunction with type 'sbt_tape', then you can specify environment variables with the following syntax:
PARMS = "ENV = (var1=value1, var2=value2, var3=value3 . . . )"

The maximum length of the quoted string is 1000 bytes.

Examples

Sending a String to the Media Manager

This example sends a vendor-specific command to a media manager:

send device type 'sbt_tape' 'A223dr';

command	specifies a vendor-specific media management command. See your media management documentation to determine which commands are supported.
device type deviceSpecifier	specifies the type of storage device and sends the command to all channels of the specified type. See "deviceSpecifier".
channel channel_id	specifies which channel to use. If you do not specify this keyword, RMAN uses all allocated channels. You must specify a channel id, which is the name of the channel, after the channel keyword. Oracle uses the channel id with the release channel command and also to report I/O errors.
parms 'channel_parms'	specifies parameters affecting the device you have allocated. Do not use this port-specific string if you have specified type disk. If you use parms in conjunction with type 'sbt_tape', then you can specify environment variables with the following syntax: PARMS = "ENV = (var1=value1, var2=value2, var3=value3 . . . )" The maximum length of the quoted string is 1000 bytes.