On Fri, 2006-07-21 at 08:54 -0400, Greg Forte wrote: > In fact, yes, I have that exact configuration. I assume you intend to > operate in an active-passive mode, in which case, everything seems to > work fine (at least, I haven't had any problems since I got it all > working). Active-active would be a bad idea, for hopefully obvious reasons. > > The biggest stumbling block was that you MUST set the hostname and > ORACLE_HOSTNAME env var to the name of a "virtual" IP address that will > always be associated with whichever machine is running oracle at the > moment. And when starting the listener (though not the database, > enterprise manager(s), or isqlplus, for some reason), you must > temporarily change the node's hostname to that name (you can change it > back as soon as the listener is started). Failure to do this during the > install will cause you no end of grief later on, and there's no easy way > to fix it afterwards (at least, I never found one). There was a bugzilla open about this with a HOWTO and a resource-agent for doing this. However, I closed it because Oracle 10gR2, as far as I know, ships with at least active/passive capability built-in. With 10gR1, that was not the case. -- Lon -- Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster
