InfoScale™ 9.0 Agent for Oracle Installation and Configuration Guide - Solaris
- Introducing the Cluster Server agent for Oracle
- About the Cluster Server agent for Oracle
- About the agent for Oracle ASM
- Supported software for VCS agent for Oracle
- 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
- Monitor options for the Oracle agent in traditional database and container database
- Startup and shutdown options for the pluggable database (PDB)
- Monitor for the pluggable database
- Recommended startup modes for pluggable database (PDB) based on container database (CDB) startup modes
- 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 in a VCS environment
- Configuring Oracle ASM on the first node of the cluster
- Configuring and starting up ASM on remaining nodes
- 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
- 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 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 the ASM feature of Oracle, configure the Oracle ASM using the ASM Configuration Assistant.
You need to configure the ASM only once, from the node on which you installed Oracle first.
To configure ASM for the Oracle 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. - Copy the PFILE or the SPFILE for ASM instances from the ASM disk group to the local file system.
The VCS agent for ASMInst agent does not support PFILE or SPFILE for ASM instances on the ASM diskgroups.