Re: Oracle RAC and VIPs

    Alessandro, good afternoon

  Send the rac log files and the output of command

$ crs_stat -t

Cheers
Waldirio

2008/7/10, Alessandro Vercelli <alever_at_libero.it>:
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> This was a nice explanation, since I'm a newbie in RAC...:)))
>
> Please, let me ask some help for a problem I'm facing with: one (or more?,
> it has been some weeks ago...) RAC node crashed and the other took its VIP;
> now I'd like to start the crashed node but it fails, obviously since the VIP
> depending nodeapp cannot start...
>
> I'm waiting my management to activate a Metalink support, but is there
> something I can do to in the meanwhile?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Alessandro
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> Date : Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:15:41 -0500
> Subject : Re: Oracle RAC and VIPs
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> >The basic gist is this:
> > The VIP is a cluster resource managed by the clusterware. Depending on
> >your OS , you can see it running as a VIP under your public network NIC.
> >(ifconfig -a on Linux). What happens in a node failure is that the
> >clusterware brings that VIP resource up on another node so that when
> clients
> >attempt connects to that IP, the 'failure' is detected right away and the
> >client can use the next address in the tnsnames.ora entry (or jdbc url, or
> >whatever).
> >
> >Try it out sometime. take a node node, use srvctl to see where the vips
> are
> >running and look at the ifconfig to see as well.
> >
> >On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Dba DBA <oracledbaquestions_at_gmail.com>
> >wrote:
> >
> >> I have installed Rac. I know how to create a VIP. I don't understand why
> >> this works. I also don't undertsand why TAF works.
> >>
> >> I am connected to node 1, how am I on the fly connected to node 2 if
> node 1
> >> goes down.
> >>
> >> Again, I know the functionality, I just don't know how it works under
> the
> >> covers.
> >>
> >> Can anyone help me out with this?
> >>
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