HP Serviceguard Toolkit for Oracle Version A.05.01.01 on Linux User Guide (December, 2012)

Contents
1 Overview..................................................................................................5
Advantages.............................................................................................................................5
Prerequisites.............................................................................................................................5
Hardware support....................................................................................................................5
2 Installing and uninstalling HP Serviceguard toolkit for Oracle...........................6
Files and directories created for HP Serviceguard toolkit for Oracle after installation..........................6
Rolling Upgrade.......................................................................................................................8
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 ASM instance and Database instance toolkit packages......11
Configuring legacy Oracle database package without ASM....................................................11
Configuring modular Oracle database package without ASM..................................................17
Configuring legacy ASM instance and Database instance packages........................................23
Configuring modular ASM instance package.........................................................................34
Managing a package.............................................................................................................45
Adding the package to the cluster........................................................................................45
Running a package............................................................................................................45
Maintaining a package......................................................................................................45
Online Modification of the Oracle Toolkit package.................................................................45
Halting a package.............................................................................................................48
Deleting a package............................................................................................................48
5 Migrating a database package..................................................................49
Migrating legacy Oracle database package without ASM to modular...........................................49
Migrating legacy ASM database package to modular.................................................................49
6 Oracle toolkit features...............................................................................50
Alert mail notification..............................................................................................................50
7 Supporting Oracle features........................................................................51
Support for multiple listeners....................................................................................................51
Single service to monitor all the listeners together...................................................................52
A separate service to monitor each listener............................................................................53
Support for user defined database services................................................................................53
Support for database hang detection........................................................................................54
Support for Oracle database backup mode...............................................................................55
8 Troubleshooting........................................................................................56
9 Support and other resources......................................................................57
Information to collect before contacting HP.................................................................................57
How to contact HP..................................................................................................................57
HP authorized resellers............................................................................................................57
Documentation feedback.........................................................................................................57
Typographic conventions.........................................................................................................57
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