How to download KFOD as a standalone utility?
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2013 08:15:57 -0500
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Good day, listers!
Before you respond with the typical "it's already a part of 11g", please bear in mind I am intentionally asking a very specific question. You might wonder "why the heck does he want KFOD as a standalone utility??!?" and I'll gladly answer that valid question. *grin* But if you happen to know, for a fact, how to obtain KFOD as a standalone utility, please let me know.
Basic environment:
- 4x T5440 boxes running Solaris 10
- two of those have GI + RAC 11.2.0.3
- two of those are empty (only have the OS and the management agent)
- 11g Enterprise Manager running on some kind of Solaris 10 box
- disk is all ECM, and I am told each node can see it
As to they "why" question, here is some background. And I have raised multiple SRs on these issues. We are attempting to use the Provisioning Procedures in 11g Enterprise Manager (which of course requires a paid license, and yes we lined the pockets of Oracle for the privilege *smile*). I have two nodes with 11.2.0.3 Grid Infrastructure and a RAC database. I have two more empty nodes of like hardware. I have been trying for several weeks to get the Provisioning Procedures to deploy Grid and RAC to the two empty nodes and have hit many (many many) speed bumps along the way. The latest problem is that Enterprise Manager fails to successfully ship and execute KFOD on the target nodes to discover the shared ASM disks. So far Oracle Support has not been able to figure it out. In an attempt to do things on my own, I have tried to copy the KFOD binaries and associated libraries from the source nodes, but my feeble efforts have been unsuccessful. Hence, I am curious how to obtain KFOD as a standalone so I can run it.
Some of you are probably rolling your eyes. Yes, I realize there is a level of absurdity to this. Why not use other tools to discover the disk devices? Another layer to our particular puzzle is that our working groups are very partitioned; we have a group that handles Storage, another group that handles sysadmin, and yet another group that handles database administration. I am one of the latter. Unfortunately I neither have access to, nor am I familiar with, any of the fancy tools that one normally uses to manage disk devices. Grid Infrastructure and RAC assumes the user has ready access too all these things.
Of course, there is more to the story. But do you really want to read more? :)
-- Charles Schultz -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-lReceived on Thu Apr 18 2013 - 15:15:57 CEST