On Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:06:57 -0500 Lon Hohberger wrote: >You could set 'recovery="relocate"', freeze the service, stop the > database cleanly, then unfreeze the service. Ah, thanks, it should work. The only "limit" would be that any recovery action will imply relocation, correct? (Some problems here with Oracle license in theory, because they let you pay only one license in a two node cluster only if total time where DB runs on one of the two node is less than a small amount of time....) Re-reading the manual about rhel 5.4 cluster administration, it puts another doubt in my mind.... Section D.4 Failure Recovery and Independent Subtrees: "... if any of the scripts defined in this service fail, the normal course of action is to restart (or relocate or disable, according to the service recovery policy) the service..." Does this mean that if my service definition is the one below: <service autostart="1" name="ACSSRV" recovery="relocate"> <ip ref="10.4.5.123"/> <fs ref="oradata"/> <fs ref="orasave"/> <fs ref="rdoffline"/> <fs ref="appl"/> <script ref="ACS"/> </service> If I get a network problem and my vip goes down for more than 30 seconds (that should be default interval between checks), it will cause a relocation of the whole service and not a try-restart of only the vip, correct? Without the recovery="relocate" option would this imply again that the whole service would be restarted in the running node in this network problem scenario (so shutdown abort of DB, umount of the FS and restart of all of them)? If this is true, could the modification below prevent this (I don't care about fs, because if one of them goes down, probably I have problems impacting DB itself, so it is safer to stop it....) for the general case <service autostart="1" name="ACSSRV" > <ip ref="10.4.5.123" __independent_subtree="1" /> <fs ref="oradata"/> <fs ref="orasave"/> <fs ref="rdoffline"/> <fs ref="appl"/> <script ref="ACS"/> </service> And what about this one, does it make sense at all if I add the recovery=relocate policy? <service autostart="1" name="ACSSRV" recovery="relocate"> <ip ref="10.4.5.123" __independent_subtree="1" /> <fs ref="oradata"/> <fs ref="orasave"/> <fs ref="rdoffline"/> <fs ref="appl"/> <script ref="ACS"/> </service> Thanks again, Gianluca -- Linux-cluster mailing list Linux-cluster@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-cluster