Using the Oracle Toolkit in a HP Serviceguard Cluster README Revision: B.06.00, August 2010

By default Local OS Authentication is enabled for Oracle 10g and 11g
with default value of "LOCAL_OS_AUTHENTICATION_listener_name = ON".
The absence of this parameter in LISTENER.ORA file implies the
feature
is enabled. In case if it has been disabled, it can be re-enabled by
commenting or removing "LOCAL_OS_AUTHENTICATION_listener_name = OFF"
from LISTENER.ORA or by setting it to
"LOCAL_OS_AUTHENTICATION_listener_name = ON".
NOTE:
Plain text listener passwords cannot contain white spaces " " when
used with Oracle toolkit.
J. Database Maintenance
There might be situations, when the Oracle database has to be taken
down for maintenance purposes like changing configuration, without
having the instance to migrate to standby node. The following
procedure should be followed:
Note: The example assumes that the package name is ORACLE_TEST0,
package directory is /etc/cmcluster/pkg/ORACLE_TEST0 and the
ORACLE_HOME is configured as /ORACLE_TEST0.
- Disable the failover of the package through cmmodpkg command.
$ cmmodpkg -d ORACLE_TEST0
- Pause the monitor script
Create an empty file /etc/cmcluster/pkg/ORACLE_TEST0/oracle.debug
as shown below:
$ touch /etc/cmcluster/pkg/ORACLE_TEST0/oracle.debug
Toolkit monitor scripts (both database instance and listener
monitoring scripts) which continuously monitor Oracle process
daemons' processes and the listener process, would now stop
monitoring these daemon processes. Two messages, "Oracle toolkit
pausing monitoring and entering maintenance mode" and "Oracle
toolkit pausing Listener <Listener_Name> monitoring and entering
maintenance mode" appears in the Serviceguard Package Control
script log.
- If required, stop the Oracle database instance as shown below:
$ cd /etc/cmcluster/pkg/ORACLE_TEST0/
$ $PWD/toolkit.sh stop
- Perform maintenance actions (Example: changing the configuration
parameters in the parameter file of the Oracle instance. If this
file is changed, please remember to distribute the new file to all
cluster nodes).