About Management and Monitoring Utilities

SynxDB provides standard command-line utilities for performing common monitoring and administration tasks.

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

• Installing SynxDB on an array
• Initializing a SynxDB System
• Starting and stopping SynxDB
• Adding or removing a host
• Expanding the array and redistributing tables among new segments
• Managing recovery for failed segment instances
• Managing failover and recovery for a failed master instance
• Backing up and restoring a database (in parallel)
• Loading data in parallel
• Transferring data between SynxDB databases
• System state reporting