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Re: To set or not to set that is the question.

From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 10:59:49 +0100
Message-ID: <7765c8970606020259o785123c8w7bea9b935c339dcf@mail.gmail.com>


Yes the agent owner can run (at least) the cemutlo utility if CRS_HOME is set.

On 6/2/06, Ghassan Salem <salem.ghassan_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Niall,
> are these users in the same os group?, if not does the agent owner have
> the execute privs required to run cemutlo, and other crs tools?
>
> As for the second question, it's only merit is that it allows you to have
> different DBs, and the dba of one cannot mingle with the others.
>
> rgds
>
>
> On 6/2/06, Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Well it is one question anyway. I have a second as well
> >
> > The environment that I have inherited here we have some
> > development linux servers running RAC with multiple Oracle homes. Each home
> > is owned by a different os account. The storage is on ASM, again owned by a
> > different os account. The folk here have installed Grid Control 10.1and deployed the management agent to yet another oracle home owned by yet
> > another os account. Grid control discovers the various databases as single
> > instance databases rather than as clustered databases. This is expected
> > behaviour since the discovery process uses $CRS_HOME/bin/cemutlo -n to
> > discover if it is on a cluster or not and CRS_HOME is not set for the os
> > account that runs the agent. So my questions are
> >
> > 1, is there a reason not to set CRS_HOME for the oracle software owners
> > on these boxes?
> > 2, Is multiple accounts owning a single ORACLE_HOME each a normal setup?
> > It seems odd to me.
> >
> > --
> > Niall Litchfield
> > Oracle DBA
> > http://www.orawin.info
> >
>
>

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Received on Fri Jun 02 2006 - 04:59:49 CDT

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