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

1 Overview
HP Serviceguard toolkit for Oracle on Linux enables you to configure an Oracle single instance in
a Serviceguard cluster on Linux and integrate an Oracle database server with HP Serviceguard
for Linux (SG/LX). This toolkit consists of a set of scripts that are used to start, stop, and monitor
an Oracle database instance, ASM instance, and the configured listeners.
Advantages
Following are the advantages of HP Serviceguard toolkit for Oracle:
• Allows easy integration of Oracle application in a Serviceguard environment.
• Provides high availability to Oracle database and ASM instances.
• HP Serviceguard has monitoring capabilities to check the system resources such as network,
volume groups and files systems. It also initiates a failover, in the instance of the failure of
these system resources.
• You can configure the packages using Serviceguard Manager. For more information, see
Managing HP Serviceguard A.12.00.00 for Linux at http://www.hp.com/go/
linux-serviceguard-docs
Prerequisites
Following are the prerequisites for HP Serviceguard toolkit for Oracle:
• Serviceguard for Linux A 12.00.00 must be installed on all the nodes in the cluster.
• Oracle application must be installed on all the package nodes.
• Shared storage must be connected to all the package nodes.
• For RHEL, upgrade psmisc bundle to psmisc-22.6-19.el6_5.x86_64.rpm.
Hardware support
Unless otherwise stated, this toolkit runs on all hardware supported by SG/LX.
Advantages 5