HP Serviceguard Toolkit for Oracle on Linux User Guide (May 2013)

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............................................................................................................46
Maintaining a package......................................................................................................46
Online Modification of the Oracle Toolkit package.................................................................46
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
Cluster verification feature for Oracle toolkit...............................................................................50
Support for sourcing user defined environment variables for Oracle instance..............................52
7 Supporting Oracle features........................................................................53
Support for multiple listeners....................................................................................................53
Single service to monitor all the listeners together...................................................................54
A separate service to monitor each listener............................................................................55
Support for user defined database services................................................................................55
Support for database hang detection........................................................................................56
Support for Oracle database backup mode...............................................................................57
8 Troubleshooting........................................................................................58
9 Support and other resources......................................................................59
Information to collect before contacting HP.................................................................................59
How to contact HP..................................................................................................................59
HP authorized resellers............................................................................................................59
Documentation feedback.........................................................................................................59
Typographic conventions.........................................................................................................59
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