That's what clustering software does. It handles moving IPs from one NIC
to another. We use Service Guard on HP-UX.
t538449 wrote:
> Hi, I have a 10gR2 environment consisting of two nodes both with an own
> 10gR2 installation (not RAC). They share disks and are intended to work
> as a standby solution.
>
> I want to be able to use a common/shared listener for the solution,
> mening that all client connections use the same IP/DNS entry for the
> databases served by the node(s). I have checked this with Oracle, who
> recommends me to use a hardware VIP solution since I am not running
> RAC. This is a non-Oracle solution, hence they cant/wont give me a
> pointer in how to set this up.
>
> The solution could be something like this: Server (node a) where the
> primary node is running has an IP address asssigned to it. Let say
> 138.3.33.33. You have a TNS listener running on the node a using this
> IP address 138.3.33.33. When a problem happends on node a, say a
> network or hardware failure then the IP address 138.33.33 is moved
> across to node b where you have a TNS listener configured and waiting
> to be started on address 138.3.33.33.
>
> Does anybody have any suggestions on how to implement this?
>
> Thanks,
> Kenneth
>
Received on Thu Nov 10 2005 - 07:37:51 CST
