Re: ORA-12542 Failsafe

can't help with the german, but...

Oracle has a patch for failsafe 2.1.3 that brings it to 2.1.3.1 and should be used if you use NT 4.0 with SP 4

Don't know if it will address your problem, but you should get it.

I have this setup and it works well.

MM

On Tue, 20 Apr 1999 08:58:19 -0700, Pete Sharman <psharman_at_us.oracle.com> wrote:

>Oliver
>
>My apologies I don't speak or read German, so I have no idea what the words
>before the Oracle errors mean. But at least I can make some suggestions on
>those:
>
>1. What port is the listener listening on? Is that port possibly used by
>something else?
>2. If there are multiple address for 'PROTOCOL=IPC' in the same LISTENER.ORA
>file for a listener, make sure none of the 'KEY' parameter values are
>duplicated.
>3. Are there two databases attempting to use the same SID?
>
>In regards to your question on what FailSafe does, it's an automated way of
>failing over a single instance database (i.e. not Parallel Server) from one node
>of an NT cluster to another.
>
>HTH.
>
>Pete
>
>Oliver Gassner wrote:
>
>> Hey Folks,
>> we have the Oracle Failsafe 2.1.3.0.0 on an NT 4.0 SP4 Cluster. Sometimes we
>> have following Error in the NT Eventlog :
>>
>> Die Beschreibung der Ereignis-ID ( 1 ) in Quelle ( OracleFailSafe ) konnte
>> nicht gefunden werden. Sie enthält folgende
>> Einfügezeichenkette(n):ORA-12542: TNS:address already in use
>> or
>> Die Beschreibung der Ereignis-ID ( 1 ) in Quelle ( OracleFailSafe ) konnte
>> nicht gefunden werden. Sie enthält folgende
>> Einfügezeichenkette(n):ORA-12203: TNS:unable to connect to destination
>>
>> The Database is only on one Machine at one time. I did not understand this
>> Message.
>> What does Failsafe do ??
>>
>> Regard
>> Oliver Gassner PSE GmbH
Received on Wed May 05 1999 - 14:34:37 CDT