Re: HP MC / Service Guard / Oracle 8i

"Tanel Poder" <tanel@@peldik.com> wrote in message news:3e5e5763_2_at_news.estpak.ee...
> ..or the "package" is a HP serviceguard term, for database, init files and
> software?
>

yes, you got that right finally. A package in HP term is container for all resources that a service needs. So in case of database, services to monitor are instance ( PMON or SMON) and listener while resources are datafiles, init, control, redo. Mail services, NFS are some other serices that service guard is usually used for.

santysharma

> In this case, the package actually means a set of disk volumes/partitions
> which will be available to the standby server, then Oracle instance is
> started on the stanby instance and users/clients connect to the new Oracle
> *instance*, not to a package.
>
> Tanel.
>
> "Tanel Poder" <tanel@@peldik.com> wrote in message
> news:3e5e557f$1_2_at_news.estpak.ee...
> > Hi
> >
> > > Can you give an example for that "package-thing"? Do you mean that I
> > > after I connected to an oracle-instance I always have to call the
> > > package within each statement? Can't believe that!
> >
> > I think Jim doesn't know what he's exactly talking about.
> >
> > The issue is, that with RAC, the sessions in surviving node will
continue
> > normally, but when you have non-RAC conf., you just have to start up the
> > instance on backup node - therefore all the package states are reset,
> since
> > all sessions have to be created again.
> >
> > The package states are in UGA, that is in the instance, it has nothing
to
> do
> > with write access to disk.
> >
> > So, this standby server gives you a chance of starting up your DB in a
> > minute after crash, instead of several hours of waiting for fixing the
> > primary server. In addition, it can help you with some maintenance work
as
> > recovery testing, upgrade (testing) and stuff, if you got mirrored disk
> > storage or BCVs.
> >
> > Tanel.
> >
> >
>
>
Received on Thu Feb 27 2003 - 13:02:21 CST