HP Application Recovery Manager software Integration guide (March 2008)

• The Oracle Server software must be installed on the application system and the
Oracle target database must be open or mounted there.
• Oracle net services must be properly configured and running (on the application
system) for the Oracle target database. The net services are needed for the
Application Recovery Manager Oracle agent to be connected to the Oracle
database on the application system through Oracle.
See the Oracle Recovery Manager User’s Guide and References for more
information about different connection options.
See “Troubleshooting” on page 134 for details about how to check the prerequisites
listed above.
• To enable offline backup, Oracle listener should be configured statically and not
with the autoconfigure option.
Limitations
• The Oracle database identifier (DBID) must be a unique in an Application Recovery
Manager cell. If you clone a database you must change the DBID.
• Individual tablespaces or datafiles cannot be backed up, only the whole database
can be backed up.
• RAC configuration is supported only on HP-UX with SLVM managed raw disks
on HP StorageWorks Disk Array XP.
• Offline backup is not supported for RAC configurations.
Before you begin
• Identify the Oracle database user that will be used by Application Recovery
Manager for backup. This user must have the SYSDBA privilege granted. For
example, it could be the Oracle user sys, which is created during database
creation.
See the Oracle documentation for more information on user privileges in Oracle.
• From the application system, using SQL*Plus, connect to the target database by
specifying the user, password, and net connect identifier. Connect to the target
database as the database administrator.
Example
If the user name for the target database is system, password manager, net
service name PROD, then the command will look like:
sqlplus /nolog
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