Re: Oracle HA ..

> One problem is with the script the (monitor in sgi's case) that checks to
> see if the instance is running. It basically just searches for the pmon
> process. Problem is we have two instances with similar names - MC and MCTR.
> As long as MCTR is up, the software thinks MC is up too because a scan for
> ora_pmon_MC finds the ora_pmon_MCTR process too!

Consider:

$ echo MCTR |grep MC
MCTR
$ echo MCTR |grep MC$
$

g

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