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
- Supported software for VCS agent for Oracle
- Changes introduced in the 7.3.1 release
- How the agent makes Oracle highly available
- About Cluster Server agent functions for Oracle
- Oracle agent functions
- Startup and shutdown options for the Oracle agent
- Startup and shutdown options for the pluggable database (PDB)
- Recommended startup modes for pluggable database (PDB) based on container database (CDB) startup modes
- Monitor options for the Oracle agent in traditional database and container database
- Monitor for the pluggable database
- How the agent handles Oracle error codes during detail monitoring
- Info entry point for Cluster Server agent for Oracle
- Action entry point for Cluster Server agent for Oracle
- How the Oracle agent supports health check monitoring
- Netlsnr agent functions
- ASMInst agent functions
- ASMDG agent functions
- Oracle agent functions
- Typical Oracle configuration in a VCS cluster
- About setting up Oracle in a VCS cluster
- Installing and configuring Oracle
- About installing Oracle in a VCS environment
- Before you install Oracle in a VCS environment
- 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
- Configuring and starting up ASM on remaining nodes for 11gR2 or 12c
- Installing Oracle binaries on the first node of the cluster
- Configuring the Oracle database
- Copying the $ORACLE_BASE/admin/SID directory
- Copying the Oracle ASM initialization parameter file
- Verifying access to the Oracle database
- Installing and removing the agent for Oracle
- Configuring VCS service groups for Oracle
- About configuring a service group 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
- About troubleshooting Cluster Server agent for Oracle
- Error messages common to the Oracle and Netlsnr agents
- Error messages specific to the Oracle agent
- Error messages specific to the Netlsnr agent
- Error messages specific to the ASMInst agent
- Error messages specific to the ASMDG agent
- Troubleshooting issues specific to Oracle in a VCS environment
- Verifying the Oracle health check binaries and intentional offline for an instance of Oracle
- Disabling IMF for a PDB resource
- Appendix A. Resource type definitions
- Appendix B. Sample configurations
- About the sample configurations for Oracle enterprise agent
- 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
- Zone root on local disk for single Oracle instance
- Zone root on shared disk for single Oracle instance
- Zone root on local disk for multiple Oracle instances
- Zone root on shared disk for multiple Oracle instances
- Zone root on local disk for Oracle instance with shared server support
- Zone root on shared disk for Oracle instance with shared server support
- Oracle instance in the context of project
- Sample VCS configuration file for zone root on local disk or on shared disk
- Sample Oracle ASM configurations
- Sample configuration of Oracle pluggable database (PDB) resource in main.cf
- Sample configuration of migratable Oracle pluggable database (PDB) resource in main.cf
- Sample Configuration of Oracle supported by systemD
- Sample configuration of ASMInst supported by systemD
- Appendix C. Best practices
- Appendix D. Using the SPFILE in a VCS cluster for Oracle
- Appendix E. OHASD in a single instance database environment
Configuring Oracle ASM on the first node of the cluster
If you want to use ASM feature of Oracle 10g or Oracle 11g R1, then configure the Oracle ASM using the Database Configuration Assistant.
You need to configure the ASM only once, from the node on which you installed Oracle first.
Review the procedure to configure ASM for Oracle database.
To configure ASM for the Oracle 10g or Oracle 11g R1 database
- Set the DISPLAY variable and start the Oracle Database Configuration Assistant as Oracle User.
# dbca
- Read the Welcome screen, click Next.
- In the Operations dialog box, select the Configure Automatic Storage Management option and click Next.
- In the Database Templates dialog box, select a template to create the database and click Next.
- In the Database Identification dialog box, enter or select a unique name and SID for the global database and click Next.
- Follow the wizard instructions and select other options.
- In the Storage Options dialog box, select the Automatic Storage Option and click Next.
- Review the warning message and click OK. Make sure that the Oracle clustering daemon is running.
- In the Create ASM Instance dialog box, specify the ASM SYS user password and click Next.
- Click OK in the message box that appears.
- In the ASM Disk Groups dialog box, choose to create a new disk group or add disks to an existing disk group.
- In the Change Disk Discovery Path dialog box, enter the path name.
Depending on the disk device you want to use for ASM, enter the disk discovery path.
In the Create Disk Group dialog box, do the following:
Choose one of the Redundancy options.
In the Select Member Disks area, choose the Show Candidates option.
Select the disks against the Disk Path from the list to create the ASM disk group.
Click OK.
- Follow the wizard instructions and complete configuring the Oracle ASM.
To configure ASM for the Oracle 11gR2 or 12c database
Note:
Create disk groups using Oracle ASM Configuration Assistant only on one server in the VCS cluster. These disk groups will be available on the remaining servers in the VCS cluster because it hosts the database of the disk groups.
- Set the DISPLAY variable and start the Oracle ASM Configuration Assistant as Oracle User.
# asmca
- In the Create ASM Instance dialog box, specify the password for ASM administrator and click Specify Disk Group button.
- In the Create Disk Group dialog box, choose to create a new disk group or add disks to an existing disk group.
- In the Change Disk Discovery Path dialog box, enter the path name.
Depending on the disk device you want to use for ASM, enter the disk discovery path.
In the Create Disk Group dialog box, do the following:
Choose one of the Redundancy options.
In the Select Member Disks area, choose the Show Candidates option.
Select the disks against the Disk Path from the list to create the ASM disk group.
Click OK.
- Follow the wizard instructions and complete configuring the Oracle ASM.
Note:
After you successfully run Oracle ASM Configuration Assistant, run the $GRID_HOME/bin/crsctl stat res -t -init command to check if
ora.<DGname>.dg, a new Oracle resource(s), is created. - For Oracle 11g R2 or 12c, copy the PFILE or the SPFILE for ASM instances from the ASM disk group to the local file system.
With Oracle 11g R2 or 12c, the VCS agent for ASMInst agent does not support PFILE or SPFILE for ASM instances on the ASM diskgroups.
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