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

1 Overview
HP Serviceguard toolkit for Oracle on Linux enables you to configure an Oracle single instance in
a Serviceguard cluster on Linux and integrate an Oracle database server with Serviceguard on
Linux (SG/LX). This toolkit consists of a set of scripts that are used to start, stop, and monitor an
Oracle database instance, ASM instance, and the configured listeners.
The HP Serviceguard toolkit for Oracle on Linux: Annual Release, June 2012 is available for free
download at http://software.hp.com —> HP-UX 11i Software —> High Availability
Advantages
Following are the advantages of HP Serviceguard toolkit for Oracle:
• Allows easy integration of Oracle application in a Serviceguard environment.
• Provides high availability to Oracle instance and database.
• HP Serviceguard has monitoring capabilities to check the system resources such as network,
volume groups and files systems. It also initiates a failover, in the instance of the failure of
these system resources.
• You can configure the packages using Serviceguard Manager. For more information, see
Managing HP Serviceguard A.11.20.00 for Linux at http://www.hp.com/go/
linux-serviceguard-docs
Prerequisites
Following are the prerequisites for HP Serviceguard toolkit for Oracle:
• Serviceguard A.11.20.00 must be installed on all the nodes in the cluster.
• Oracle application must be installed on all the package nodes.
• Shared storage must be connected to all the cluster nodes.
Storage considerations
Unless otherwise stated, this toolkit runs on all hardware supported by SG/LX.
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