From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Tue Mar 2 15:06:59 2004 Return-Path: Received: from air189.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i22L6xu18939 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 15:06:59 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air189.startdedicated.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i22L6xo18934 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 15:06:59 -0600 Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id A298B394EFD; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 16:07:32 -0500 (EST) Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list oracle-l); Tue, 02 Mar 2004 16:06:29 -0500 (EST) X-Original-To: oracle-l@freelists.org Delivered-To: oracle-l@freelists.org Received: from smtp-out6.xs4all.nl (smtp-out6.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.7]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 3B43C394EB9 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 16:06:26 -0500 (EST) Received: from dbalert99a.xs4all.nl (dbalert.xs4all.nl [213.84.185.230]) by smtp-out6.xs4all.nl (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i22LA40F051171 for ; Tue, 2 Mar 2004 22:10:10 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: <6.0.1.1.0.20040302210538.44a58040@pop.xs4all.nl> X-Sender: careljan@pop.xs4all.nl X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.1.1 Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 21:08:44 +0200 To: oracle-l@freelists.org From: Carel-Jan Engel Subject: Re: Will failover work when switch off the box/power outage? In-Reply-To: <4a9ccb4ac5eb.4ac5eb4a9ccb@optonline.net> References: <4a9ccb4ac5eb.4ac5eb4a9ccb@optonline.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=====================_19603495==.ALT" X-archive-position: 94 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: cjpengel.dbalert@xs4all.nl Precedence: normal Reply-To: oracle-l@freelists.org X-list: oracle-l --=====================_19603495==.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Hi Jay, Can you clarify your question? What failover do you mean? Data Guard? Transparent( Better: transclucent (Pete Sharman)) Application Failover,. TAF? Some automagic failover whenever you switch off a box? You can pull the network cord from the NIC on the standby. That will give the standby the perfect idea of a power outage on the primary. Regards, Carel-Jan At 10:01 PM 3/2/2004, you wrote: >Dear All, > >We tested oracle failover functionality with "shutdown abort" but we >cannot switch off the server because few other applications are running on >the same box (Test Env). > >Could some one clarify this? > >Thanks >Jay > >---------------------------------------------------------------- >Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com >---------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@freelists.org >put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. >-- >Archives are at http://www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ >FAQ is at http://www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html >----------------------------------------------------------------- === If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. (Derek Bok) === DBA!ert, Independent Oracle Consultancy Kastanjelaan 61C 2743 BX Waddinxveen The Netherlands tel. +31 (0) 182 640 428 fax +31 (0) 182 640 429 mobile +31 (0) 653 911 950 e-mail info.dbalert@xs4all.nl --=====================_19603495==.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Hi Jay,

Can you clarify your question? What failover do you mean? Data Guard? Transparent( Better: transclucent (Pete Sharman)) Application Failover,. TAF? Some automagic failover whenever you switch off a box?

You can pull the network cord from the NIC on the standby. That will give the standby the perfect idea of a power outage on the primary.

Regards, Carel-Jan




At 10:01 PM 3/2/2004, you wrote:
Dear All,

We tested oracle failover functionality with "shutdown abort"   but we cannot switch off the server because few other applications are running on the same box (Test Env).

Could some one clarify this?

Thanks
Jay

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