Re: agent, clusters and failover

I was cryptic but you understood my question quite well and your answer sort out most of my doubts.

I'm a newbie with intelligent agent and management server and I'm still learning... (I've started with 10g grid control but I'm not sure it was a good idea).

Thanks for your help.
Fabrizio

Howard J. Rogers wrote:
> Are you talking about the Intelligent Agent?
>
> Or something else??
>
> If it's the Intelligent Agent, then of course you need one on every node,
> otherwise you can't manage the cluster *as* a cluster, but merely as a
> collection of separate instances. Enterprise Manager, for example, uses GSD
> on one node to talk to the other GSDs on the other nodes to perform, for
> example, cluster-wide shutdowns or backups or exports. GSD pulls off that
> trick by in turn talking to the Intelligent Agents on each node to handle
> the actual scheduling of a job. No Intelligent Agent, no cluster-wide
> scheduling.
>
> Maybe I've misunderstood your question though.
>
> For example, the question "should I bind the agent at the service or at the
> node" means nothing if we're talking about the Intelligent Agent, since that
> is intrinsically a "node process", running independently of whether or not
> the instances comprising your RAC are actually up or not.
>
> Regards
> HJR
>
>
> "FM" <fabrizio.magni_at_mycontinent.com> wrote in message
> news:mRG9c.114528$z23.4862907_at_news3.tin.it...
>

>>Maybe a trivial question:
>>how would you set oracle agents (10g in particular) in a cluster
>>environment?
>>
>>In a simple failover system? Would you keep an agent active on every
>>node or only on the one which is giving service?
>>
>>And for mutual failover? Would you bind the agent at the service(s) or
>>at the node?
>>
>>I see more advantages having an agent on every node but I'd welcome
>>different opinions.
>>Anybody with experience in clustered services monitored by agents?
>>
>>Thank you
>>Fabrizio Magni
>>
>>
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>>
>>Fabrizio Magni
>>
>>fabrizio.magni_at_mycontinent.com
>>
>>replace mycontinent with europe

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