Owner's Manual

46 Deployment Guide
4 In the Operations window, click Instance Management and click Next .
5 In the Instance Management window, click Delete an instance and click Next .
6 In the List of Cluster Databases window, select a RAC database from which to delete an instance.
If your user name is not operating system-authenticated, the DBCA prompts you for a user name and
password for a database user with SYSDBA privileges.
7 Enter the user name sys and the password, and click Next .
The
List of Cluster Database Instances window appears, showing the instances associated with the
RAC database that you selected and the status of each instance.
8 Select the instance to delete and click Next .
This instance cannot be the local instance from where you are running DBCA. If you select the local
instance, the DBCA displays an
Error dialog. If this occurs, click OK , select another instance, and
click
Finish .
If services are assigned to this instance, the
DBCA Services Management window appears. Use this
window to reassign services to other instances in the cluster database.
9 In the Summary window, click OK .
10 Verify the information about the instance deletion operation and click OK .
A progress bar appears while DBCA removes the instance and its Oracle Net configuration. When the
operation is completed, a dialog prompts whether you want to perform another operation.
11 Click No to exit.
12 Ty p e srvctl config database -d <database name> to verify that the node was removed.
Reconfiguring the Listener
1 Ty p e netca .
2 In the Real Application Clusters → Configuration window, select Cluster Configuration and
click
Next .
3 In the Real Application Clusters → Active Nodes window, select the node that you want to delete and
click
Next .
4 In the Welcome window, select Listener Configuration and click Next .
5 In the Listener Configuration → Listener window, select Delete and click Next .
6 In the Listener Configuration → Select Listener window, select LISTENER and click Next .
When a message
Are you sure you want to delete listener LISTENER? appears,
click
Yes .
7 In the Listener Configuration → Listener Deleted window, click Next .
8 In the Listener Configuration Done window, click Next .
9 Click Finish .