Cluster Server 8.0.2 Agent for Oracle Installation and Configuration Guide - Linux
- 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
- Configuring VCS service groups for Oracle using the Veritas High Availability Configuration wizard
- Typical VCS cluster configuration in a virtual environment
- About configuring application monitoring using the Veritas High Availability solution for VMware
- Getting ready to configure VCS service groups using the wizard
- Before configuring application monitoring
- Launching the Veritas High Availability Configuration wizard
- Configuring the agent to monitor Oracle
- Understanding service group configurations
- Understanding configuration scenarios
- Veritas High Availability Configuration wizard limitations
- Troubleshooting
- Sample configurations
- 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
- About the resource type and attribute definitions
- Resource type definition for the Oracle agent
- Resource type definition for the Netlsnr agent
- Resource type definition for the ASMInst agent
- Resource type definition for the ASMDG agent
- 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
How the Oracle and Netlsnr agents support intelligent resource monitoring
With intelligent monitoring framework (IMF), VCS supports intelligent resource monitoring in addition to the poll-based monitoring. Poll-based monitoring polls the resources periodically whereas intelligent monitoring performs asynchronous monitoring. You can enable or disable the intelligent resource monitoring functionality for the Oracle and Netlsnr agents.
See Enabling and disabling intelligent resource monitoring for agents manually.
When an IMF-enabled agent starts up, the agent initializes the asynchronous monitoring framework (AMF) kernel driver. After the resource is in a steady state, the agent registers the details that are required to monitor the resource with the AMF kernel driver. For example, the Oracle agent registers the PIDs of the Oracle processes with the AMF kernel driver. The agent's imf_getnotification function waits for any resource state changes. When the AMF kernel driver module notifies the imf_getnotification function about a resource state change, the agent framework runs the monitor agent function to ascertain the state of that resource. The agent notifies the state change to VCS which takes appropriate action.
See the Cluster Server Administrator’s Guide for more information.