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

Contents
1 Overview..................................................................................................5
Advantages.............................................................................................................................5
Prerequisites.............................................................................................................................5
Storage considerations..............................................................................................................5
2 Installing and uninstalling HP Serviceguard toolkit for Oracle...........................6
Files and directories created for HP Serviceguard toolkit for Oracle after installation..........................6
3 Supported configuration..............................................................................9
Without Automatic Storage Management....................................................................................9
Shared configuration............................................................................................................9
Multiple instance configuration..............................................................................................9
With Automatic Storage Management.........................................................................................9
4 Using HP Serviceguard toolkit for Oracle.....................................................11
Configuring legacy and modular Oracle database toolkit packages..............................................11
Configuring legacy Oracle database package without ASM....................................................11
Configuring modular Oracle database package without ASM..................................................16
Configuring legacy ASM database package.........................................................................21
Configuring modular ASM database package.......................................................................31
Managing a package.............................................................................................................40
Adding the package to the cluster........................................................................................40
Running a package............................................................................................................40
Maintaining a package......................................................................................................40
Halting a package.............................................................................................................41
Deleting a package............................................................................................................41
5 Migrating a database package..................................................................42
Migrating legacy Oracle database package without ASM to modular...........................................42
Migrating legacy ASM database package to modular.................................................................42
6 Supporting Oracle features........................................................................43
Support for multiple listeners....................................................................................................43
Single service to monitor all the listeners together...................................................................44
A separate service to monitor each listener............................................................................45
Support for user defined database services................................................................................45
Support for database hang detection........................................................................................46
7 Troubleshooting........................................................................................47
8 Support and other resources......................................................................48
Information to collect before contacting HP.................................................................................48
How to contact HP..................................................................................................................48
HP authorized resellers............................................................................................................48
Documentation feedback.........................................................................................................48
Typographic conventions.........................................................................................................48
A Sample package configuration file for Oracle database legacy package without
ASM..........................................................................................................50
B Sample package configuration file for Oracle database modular package without
ASM..........................................................................................................52
C Sample package configuration file for Oracle ASM database legacy
package....................................................................................................53
Sample package configuration file for Oracle ASM MNP legacy package.....................................53
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