HP Serviceguard Linux Oracle-Toolkit-A.05.01.00 User Guide (696983-001, June 2012)

4 Using HP Serviceguard toolkit for Oracle
After installing the HP Serviceguard toolkit for Oracle, you can use this toolkit to:
• Configure legacy and modular Oracle database toolkit packages.
• Manage the packages.
Configuring legacy and modular Oracle database toolkit packages
You can configure the legacy and modular Oracle database toolkit packages with and without
ASM.
• “Configuring legacy Oracle database package without ASM” (page 11)
• “Configuring modular Oracle database package without ASM” (page 16)
• “Configuring legacy ASM database package” (page 21)
• “Configuring modular ASM database package” (page 31)
Configuring legacy Oracle database package without ASM
To configure a legacy Oracle database toolkit packages without ASM, setup and configure database
failover package:
1. Create a database package directory under ${SGCONF}/<package dir>. For example,
# mkdir ${SGCONF}/oracle_legacy
2. Copy the toolkit scripts from ${SGCONF}/oracletoolkit to the directory created in step
1.
3. cd ${SGCONF}/<package dir>
4. Edit the configuration file, haoracle.conf.
ExampleDescriptionAttribute Name
databaseThis parameter determines whether
the instance is an ASM instance or
INSTANCE_TYPE
a database instance. Set this
parameter to database.
/ORACLE_TEST0This is the base directory where
Oracle is installed.
ORACLE_HOME
oracleUser name of the Oracle database
administrator. This is used to start
and stop the database.
ORACLE_ADMIN
ORACLE_TEST0The Oracle session name. It is also
called the session ID (SID). It
SID_NAME
uniquely identifies an Oracle
database instance.
NOTE: If you modify this attribute
after issuing the # cmmakepkg -i
-m -t command, you must
reconfigure the
MONITOR_PROCESSES attribute
defined in this file to reflect the
same. Also, reconfigure PFILE
attribute defined in this file to reflect
this change, if PFILE is using this
attribute.
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