HP Serviceguard Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit User Guide, December 2012 (5900-2145)

Contents
1 Introduction...............................................................................................7
Installing and Uninstalling Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit............................................................8
2 Using the Oracle Toolkit in an HP Serviceguard Cluster...................................9
Overview................................................................................................................................9
Supported Versions...................................................................................................................9
Support for Oracle Database Without ASM...............................................................................10
Setting up the application...................................................................................................10
Setting up the Toolkit..........................................................................................................14
Toolkit Overview...........................................................................................................14
Support for multiple listeners...........................................................................................17
Support for DB services..................................................................................................19
Support for database hang detection...............................................................................20
Support for sourcing the user defined environment variables for Oracle Instance.........................20
Cluster verification for ECMT - Oracle Toolkit.........................................................................21
Oracle package configuration example................................................................................21
Package Setup and Configuration ...................................................................................21
If you are using LVM or VxVM....................................................................................21
If you are using CFS.................................................................................................22
If you are using LVM.................................................................................................23
If you are using VxVM..............................................................................................23
Supporting Oracle ASM Instance and Oracle Database with ASM................................................28
What is Automatic Storage Management (ASM)?..................................................................29
Why ASM over LVM?.........................................................................................................31
Configuring LVM Volume Groups for ASM Disk Groups...........................................................31
Sample command sequence for configuring LVM Volume Groups.............................................32
Serviceguard support for ASM on HP-UX 11i v3 onwards........................................................34
Framework for ASM support with Serviceguard......................................................................34
How Toolkit Starts, Stops, and Monitors the Database instance...........................................35
Serviceguard Toolkit Internal File Structure........................................................................36
ASM File Descriptor Release...........................................................................................38
Installing, Configuring, and Troubleshooting..........................................................................38
Setting up DB instance and ASM instance..................................................................................39
Setting up the Toolkit ..............................................................................................................40
ASM Package Configuration Example.......................................................................................43
Modifying a Legacy Database Package Using an Older Version of Oracle ECMT Scripts to use the
Scripts Provided for ASM Support.............................................................................................51
Adding the Package to the Cluster............................................................................................53
Node-specific Configuration.....................................................................................................53
Error Handling.......................................................................................................................54
Network Configuration............................................................................................................54
Database Maintenance...........................................................................................................55
Configuring and packaging Oracle single-instance database to co-exist with SGeRAC packages......56
Configuring Oracle single-instance database that uses ASM in a Coexistence Environment..........56
Attributes newly added to ECMT Oracle toolkit......................................................................57
Configuring a modular failover package for an Oracle database using ASM in a coexistence
environment......................................................................................................................57
Configuring a legacy failover package for an Oracle database using ASM in a Coexistence
Environment......................................................................................................................59
ECMT Oracle Toolkit Maintenance Mode..............................................................................61
Supporting EBS database Tier..................................................................................................61
Oracle ASM Support for EBS DB Tier........................................................................................61
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