Using Easy Deployment in Serviceguard and Metrocluster environments on HP-UX 11i v3

Parameter discovery and default parameters

By way of automatic package parameter discovery by the Easy Deployment operation, the following

Oracle RAC database package attributes are automatically populated in the corresponding

configuration file:

• Cluster nodes

• Oracle User

• OC-MNP package name

• OC-MNP toolkit directory

The Oracle RAC database package name parameter is initialized in the following manner:

• In a non-Metrocluster environment, this is set to rac_<dbname>_pkg.

• In a site-aware Metrocluster environment, the site_id will be appended to the package name

(rac_<dbname>_pkg).

In a non-Metrocluster environment, the Oracle RAC database package working directory is set to

/etc/cmcluster/rac_<dbname>_pkg/. In a site-aware Metrocluster environment, the Oracle

Clusterware package working directory is set to

/etc/cmcluster/rac_<dbname>_pkg_site_<site_id>/. All other package parameters will

be set to default values in accordance to the latest edition of the manual Using Serviceguard

Extension for RAC. Please refer to the same for more details on default package parameters.

Error and exception handling

An error message will appear in the Serviceguard Manager package Easy Deployment operation log

window if the Oracle RAC DB deployment fails for one or more of the following reasons:

• A modular RAC DB package is already configured in the cluster for the Oracle database name

specified by the user.

Note: The package Easy Deployment operation will not be able to identify a legacy RAC DB package.

Multiple Oracle Clusterware packages have been configured in the cluster.

Note: The package Easy Deployment operation will not be able to identify a legacy Oracle Clusterware package.

• An error occurs during deployment of the Oracle Clusterware package. As mentioned before,

Oracle RAC DB package deployment auto-deploys an Oracle Clusterware package if it is not found

to be pre-configured in the cluster.

• The cluster with a non-Metrocluster environment already has a non-RAC DB package configured for

any other third-party application with the name rac_<dbname>_pkg; or, in a site-aware

Metrocluster, a non-RAC DB package with the name rac_<dbname>_pkg_<site_id> already

exists, configured for any other third-party application on a given site.

• An unexpected error occurs during the Oracle RAC DB package deployment operation.

Limitations

• Supports only Oracle 11gR2 RAC

• Supports only shared storages configured using CFS (SG SMS A.03.01 or later)

• Supports only modular package style

• If a legacy package for a CFS disk group already exists in the cluster and no mount point package

exists, users must not use the Serviceguard Manager package Easy Deployment feature to deploy

modular packages for the same Oracle Clusterware/RAC DB.