Rman command line, directly startup db, rmanstartup
I forgot where I saw it. It seems like this is a new feature of 11 GB.
[oracle@rhel63single ~]$ rman target /Recovery Manager: Release 11.2.0.4.0 - Production on Thu Feb 19 00:39:14 2015Copyright (c) 1982, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.connected to target database (not started)RMAN> startupOracle instance starteddatabase mounteddatabase openedTotal System Global Area 1068937216 bytesFixed Size 2260088 bytesVariable Size 612369288 bytesDatabase Buffers 448790528 bytesRedo Buffers 5517312 bytesRMAN>
[root@rhel63single ~]# ps -ef | grep rmanoracle 2195 2171 0 00:39 pts/0 00:00:01 rman target /root 2378 2358 0 00:42 pts/2 00:00:00 grep rman
[root@rhel63single ~]# ps -ef | grep sqlroot 2380 2358 0 00:43 pts/2 00:00:00 grep sql
However, from the alert Log, you cannot see whether the database is started from rman or sqlplus.