HP Serviceguard Toolkit for Oracle on Linux User Guide Version A.12.00.00

Contents
1 Overview..................................................................................................5
Advantages.............................................................................................................................5
Prerequisites.............................................................................................................................5
Hardware support....................................................................................................................5
2 Installing and uninstalling HP Serviceguard toolkit for Oracle...........................6
Installing Oracle toolkit..............................................................................................................6
Upgrading Oracle toolkit...........................................................................................................6
Uninstalling Oracle toolkit..........................................................................................................7
Files and directories created for HP Serviceguard toolkit for Oracle after installation..........................7
Rolling Upgrade.......................................................................................................................9
3 Supported configuration............................................................................10
Without Automatic Storage Management..................................................................................10
Shared configuration..........................................................................................................10
Multiple instance configuration............................................................................................10
With Automatic Storage Management.......................................................................................11
4 Using HP Serviceguard toolkit for Oracle.....................................................12
Configuring modular Oracle ASM instance and Database instance toolkit packages.......................12
Configuring modular Oracle database package without ASM..................................................12
Configuring modular ASM instance package.........................................................................17
Managing a package.............................................................................................................27
Adding the package to the cluster........................................................................................27
Running a package............................................................................................................27
Maintaining a package......................................................................................................27
Online Modification of the Oracle Toolkit package.................................................................28
Handling failures during online package reconfiguration....................................................30
Halting a package.............................................................................................................31
Deleting a package............................................................................................................32
5 Oracle toolkit features...............................................................................33
Alert mail notification..............................................................................................................33
Cluster verification feature for Oracle toolkit...............................................................................33
Support for sourcing user defined environment variables for Oracle instance..............................35
6 Supporting Oracle features........................................................................36
Support for multiple listeners....................................................................................................36
Single service to monitor all the listeners together...................................................................36
A separate service to monitor each listener............................................................................37
Support for user defined database services................................................................................37
Support for database hang detection........................................................................................38
Support for Oracle database backup mode...............................................................................38
7 Troubleshooting........................................................................................39
8 Support and other resources......................................................................40
Information to collect before contacting HP.................................................................................40
How to contact HP..................................................................................................................40
HP authorized resellers............................................................................................................40
Documentation feedback.........................................................................................................40
Typographic conventions.........................................................................................................40
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