NetBackup™ Web UI Oracle Administrator's Guide

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Product(s): NetBackup & Alta Data Protection (9.1)

Configure an Oracle Wallet with RAC within NetBackup

The configuration and setup of the Oracle Wallet in NetBackup is a two-step process. You add descriptors first, then you register the wallet. In the cases of Oracle RAC, your descriptors must enumerate the list of RAC instances that comprise your RAC cluster.

NetBackup Oracle Wallet prerequisites:

  • The Oracle wallet location must be accessible from all nodes of the RAC cluster.

  • Using a shared location is encouraged for maintainability.

    An example storage location can be: An Oracle ACFS file system that is mounted on each node or an NFS share accessible to each node. The mount point of the shared location must be the same on each node.

  • If the wallet is not in a shared location, it must be in an identically duplicate location on each node of the RAC cluster. The full contents of the wallet must also be duplicated on each node of the RAC cluster.

To configure Oracle Wallet with RAC in NetBackup:

  1. Add the connect descriptors with the Oracle MKSTORE utility. The descriptors are case-sensitive and must match exactly to what is in NetBackup.
    mkstore -wrl /db/orac183/wallet/ -CreateCredential 
'(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=exampleScanName.veritas.com)
(PORT=1521))(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVER=DEDICATED)
(SERVICE_NAME=orac183.veritas.com)(INSTANCE_NAME=orac1831)))' 
testUser testPassword
    mkstore -wrl /db/orac183/wallet/ -CreateCredential 
'(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=exampleScanName.veritas.com)
(PORT=1521))(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVER=DEDICATED)
(SERVICE_NAME=orac183.veritas.com)(INSTANCE_NAME=orac1832)))' 
testUser testPassword
  2. Register the RAC with the wallet path using the web UI.

    To register the RAC with the wallet path from the CLI, run nboraadm -register_rac_db.

    If the RAC is registered for the first time from discovery, you need to include the dbid. From the CLI, run nboraadm -register_rac_db -rac_db_unique_name.

  3. (Optional) If you get an error when you attempt to register the RAC, review the error message. Compare the descriptors in the error message with what you generated in step 1 and what you inserted into your Oracle wallet.

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