Cluster Server 7.3.1 Agent for Oracle Installation and Configuration Guide - Solaris
- Introducing the Cluster Server agent for Oracle
- About the Cluster Server agent for Oracle
- How the agent makes Oracle highly available
- About Cluster Server agent functions for Oracle
- Oracle agent functions
- How the Oracle agent supports health check monitoring
- ASMInst agent functions
- Oracle agent functions
- Installing and configuring Oracle
- About VCS requirements for installing Oracle
- About Oracle installation tasks for VCS
- Installing ASM binaries for Oracle 11gR2 or 12c in a VCS environment
- Configuring Oracle ASM on the first node of the cluster
- Installing Oracle binaries on the first node of the cluster
- Installing and removing the agent for Oracle
- Configuring VCS service groups for Oracle
- Configuring Oracle instances in VCS
- Before you configure the VCS service group for Oracle
- Configuring the VCS service group for Oracle
- Setting up detail monitoring for VCS agents for Oracle
- Enabling and disabling intelligent resource monitoring for agents manually
- Administering VCS service groups for Oracle
- Pluggable database (PDB) migration
- Troubleshooting Cluster Server agent for Oracle
- Verifying the Oracle health check binaries and intentional offline for an instance of Oracle
- Appendix A. Resource type definitions
- Appendix B. Sample configurations
- Sample single Oracle instance configuration
- Sample multiple Oracle instances (single listener) configuration
- Sample multiple instance (multiple listeners) configuration
- Sample Oracle configuration with shared server support
- Sample configuration for Oracle instances in Solaris zones
- Sample Oracle ASM configurations
- Appendix C. Best practices
- Appendix D. Using the SPFILE in a VCS cluster for Oracle
- Appendix E. OHASD in a single instance database environment
How the Oracle and Netlsnr agents support intelligent resource monitoring
With intelligent monitoring framework (IMF), VCS supports intelligent resource monitoring in addition to the poll-based monitoring. Poll-based monitoring polls the resources periodically whereas intelligent monitoring performs asynchronous monitoring. You can enable or disable the intelligent resource monitoring functionality for the Oracle and Netlsnr agents.
See Enabling and disabling intelligent resource monitoring for agents manually.
When an IMF-enabled agent starts up, the agent initializes the asynchronous monitoring framework (AMF) kernel driver. After the resource is in a steady state, the agent registers the details that are required to monitor the resource with the AMF kernel driver. For example, the Oracle agent registers the PIDs of the Oracle processes with the AMF kernel driver. The agent's imf_getnotification function waits for any resource state changes. When the AMF kernel driver module notifies the imf_getnotification function about a resource state change, the agent framework runs the monitor agent function to ascertain the state of that resource. The agent notifies the state change to VCS which takes appropriate action.
See the Cluster Server Administrator’s Guide for more information.