Contents

 

1 Introduction...............................................................................................

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Overview................................................................................................................................

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2 Using the Oracle Toolkit in an HP Serviceguard Cluster...................................

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Overview................................................................................................................................

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Supported versions...................................................................................................................

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Support For Oracle Database without ASM..................................................................................

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Setting Up The Application....................................................................................................

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Setting Up the Toolkit.........................................................................................................

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Toolkit Overview...........................................................................................................

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Support for multiple listeners...........................................................................................

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Support for database hang detection...............................................................................

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Cluster Verification for ECMT - Oracle Toolkit.........................................................................

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Oracle Package Configuration Example................................................................................

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Package Setup and Configuration ...................................................................................

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If you are using LVM or VxVM....................................................................................

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If you are using CFS.................................................................................................

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If you are using LVM.................................................................................................

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If you are using VxVM..............................................................................................

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Supporting Oracle ASM instance and Oracle database with ASM................................................

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What is Automatic Storage Management (ASM)?..................................................................

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Why ASM over LVM?.........................................................................................................

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Configuring LVM Volume Groups for ASM Disk Groups...........................................................

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Sample Command Sequence for Configuring LVM Volume Groups...........................................

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Serviceguard support for ASM on HP-UX 11i v3 onwards........................................................

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Framework for ASM support with Serviceguard......................................................................

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How Toolkit Starts, Stops and Monitors the Database instance............................................

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Serviceguard Toolkit Internal File Structure........................................................................

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ASM File Descriptor Release...........................................................................................

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Installing, Configuring, and Troubleshooting..........................................................................

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Setting up DB instance and ASM instance..................................................................................

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Setting Up the Toolkit .............................................................................................................

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ASM Package Configuration Example.......................................................................................

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Modifying a legacy database package using an older version of Oracle ECMT scripts to use the

 

scripts provided for ASM support..............................................................................................

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Adding the Package to the Cluster............................................................................................

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Node-specific Configuration.....................................................................................................

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Error Handling.......................................................................................................................

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Network Configuration............................................................................................................

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Database Maintenance...........................................................................................................

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Configuring and packaging Oracle single-instance database to co-exist with SGeRAC packages......

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Configuring Oracle single-instance database that uses ASM in a Coexistence Environment..........

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Attributes newly added to ECMT Oracle toolkit......................................................................

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Configuring a modular failover package for an Oracle database using ASM in a Coexistence

 

Environment......................................................................................................................

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Configuring a legacy failover package for an Oracle database using ASM in a Coexistence

 

Environment......................................................................................................................

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ECMT Oracle Toolkit Maintenance Mode..............................................................................

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Supporting EBS database Tier..................................................................................................

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Oracle ASM Support for EBS DB Tier........................................................................................

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