Re: agent, clusters and failover

From: FM <fabrizio.magni_at_mycontinent.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 21:08:32 GMT
Message-ID: <kf0ac.118998$z23.5080704@news3.tin.it>

Actually I assumed that in a RAC I would need an agent for both nodes... I was guessing if the same was true for an active-passive environment. Would you keep an agent active on the passive node (the one waiting for the failover)? Or would you restart it with other "services" as listener and instance?

(I'm covering myself with mud)

Fabrizio

Howard J. Rogers wrote:

> "Holger Baer" <holger.baer_at_science-computing.de> wrote in message
> news:c48ld7$dk4$1_at_news.BelWue.DE...
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>

>>Wild stab out of curiosity: Could it be that we're talking MS Cluster

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> here?
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>>In that case, put the Intelligent Agent into the cluster group with the

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> database,
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>>else you're gonna have a hard time with OEM. (Been there, done that...)
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>>Regards,
>>
>>Holger

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> Forgive my ignorance, but the "cluster group": is this the thing MS uses to
> tell it what programs to failover and startup on the surviving node?
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> In which case, you certainly would want to make sure the Agent is re-started
> on node 2. (And the Listener etc).
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> But of course, if we're talking Microsoft clustering (and in particular,
> Microsoft's "cluster services" cluster management software) we aren't
> talking Real Application Clusters. Though I agree I assumed we were and it
> is possible we aren't!
>
> Clear as mud, I guess!!
>
> Regards
> HJR
>
>

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Fabrizio Magni

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Received on Mon Mar 29 2004 - 15:08:32 CST