User's Manual

Contents
1 Introduction...............................................................................................6
Overview................................................................................................................................6
2 Using the Oracle Toolkit in an HP Serviceguard Cluster...................................8
Overview................................................................................................................................8
Supported versions...................................................................................................................8
Support For Oracle Database without ASM..................................................................................9
Setting Up The Application....................................................................................................9
Setting Up the Toolkit.........................................................................................................13
Toolkit Overview...........................................................................................................13
Support for multiple listeners...........................................................................................17
Support for database hang detection...............................................................................17
Cluster Verification for ECMT - Oracle Toolkit.........................................................................18
Oracle Package Configuration Example................................................................................18
Package Setup and Configuration ...................................................................................18
If you are using LVM or VxVM....................................................................................19
If you are using CFS.................................................................................................19
If you are using LVM.................................................................................................20
If you are using VxVM..............................................................................................21
Supporting Oracle ASM instance and Oracle database with ASM................................................26
What is Automatic Storage Management (ASM)?..................................................................26
Why ASM over LVM?.........................................................................................................28
Configuring LVM Volume Groups for ASM Disk Groups...........................................................28
Sample Command Sequence for Configuring LVM Volume Groups...........................................29
Serviceguard support for ASM on HP-UX 11i v3 onwards........................................................31
Framework for ASM support with Serviceguard......................................................................31
How Toolkit Starts, Stops and Monitors the Database instance............................................32
Serviceguard Toolkit Internal File Structure........................................................................33
ASM File Descriptor Release...........................................................................................35
Installing, Configuring, and Troubleshooting..........................................................................35
Setting up DB instance and ASM instance..................................................................................36
Setting Up the Toolkit .............................................................................................................37
ASM Package Configuration Example.......................................................................................40
Modifying a legacy database package using an older version of Oracle ECMT scripts to use the
scripts provided for ASM support..............................................................................................47
Adding the Package to the Cluster............................................................................................49
Node-specific Configuration.....................................................................................................50
Error Handling.......................................................................................................................50
Network Configuration............................................................................................................50
Database Maintenance...........................................................................................................51
Configuring and packaging Oracle single-instance database to co-exist with SGeRAC packages......52
Configuring Oracle single-instance database that uses ASM in a Coexistence Environment..........52
Attributes newly added to ECMT Oracle toolkit......................................................................53
Configuring a modular failover package for an Oracle database using ASM in a Coexistence
Environment......................................................................................................................54
Configuring a legacy failover package for an Oracle database using ASM in a Coexistence
Environment......................................................................................................................55
ECMT Oracle Toolkit Maintenance Mode..............................................................................57
Supporting EBS database Tier..................................................................................................57
Oracle ASM Support for EBS DB Tier........................................................................................58
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