HP Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit User Guide (5900-2131, December 2011)

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...............................................................................18
Cluster Verification for ECMT - Oracle Toolkit.........................................................................19
Oracle Package Configuration Example................................................................................19
Package Setup and Configuration ...................................................................................19
If you are using LVM or VxVM....................................................................................20
If you are using CFS.................................................................................................20
If you are using LVM.................................................................................................21
If you are using VxVM..............................................................................................22
Supporting Oracle ASM instance and Oracle database with ASM................................................26
What is Automatic Storage Management (ASM)?..................................................................27
Why ASM over LVM?.........................................................................................................29
Configuring LVM Volume Groups for ASM Disk Groups...........................................................29
Sample Command Sequence for Configuring LVM Volume Groups...........................................30
Serviceguard support for ASM on HP-UX 11i v3 onwards........................................................32
Framework for ASM support with Serviceguard......................................................................32
How Toolkit Starts, Stops and Monitors the Database instance............................................33
Serviceguard Toolkit Internal File Structure........................................................................34
ASM File Descriptor Release...........................................................................................36
Installing, Configuring, and Troubleshooting..........................................................................36
Setting up DB instance and ASM instance..................................................................................37
Setting Up the Toolkit .............................................................................................................38
ASM Package Configuration Example.......................................................................................41
Modifying a legacy database package using an older version of Oracle ECMT scripts to use the
scripts provided for ASM support..............................................................................................48
Adding the Package to the Cluster............................................................................................50
Node-specific Configuration.....................................................................................................50
Error Handling.......................................................................................................................51
Network Configuration............................................................................................................51
Database Maintenance...........................................................................................................52
Configuring and packaging Oracle single-instance database to co-exist with SGeRAC packages......53
Configuring Oracle single-instance database that uses ASM in a Coexistence Environment..........53
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......................................................................................................................56
ECMT Oracle Toolkit Maintenance Mode..............................................................................58
Supporting EBS database Tier..................................................................................................58
Oracle ASM Support for EBS DB Tier........................................................................................58
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