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Re: Failsafe & Active Directory

From: William <william_king_at_h0tmai1.com>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 13:13:25 +0100
Message-ID: <42946be7$0$8515$892e0abb@auth.newsreader.octanews.com>

"Holger Baer" <holger.baer_at_science-computing.de> wrote in message news:d71l9j$g3t$1_at_news.BelWue.DE...
> William wrote:
>>
>>
>> Thanks for your reply Holger, in the end I managed to find some
>> documentation on the Oracle website and it would appear that your
>> response was correct with this document.
>>
>>
>> From Oracle document:
>> "In the Oracle Services for MSCS Account/Password dialog box, enter the
>> domain, user name, and password of a user account that has Administrator
>> privileges. This is the account that Oracle Services for MSCS will be
>> using to access this cluster. Oracle Services for MSCS runs as a Windows
>> service (called OracleMSCSServices) under a user account that must be a
>> domain user account (not the system account) that has Administrator
>> privileges on all nodes of this cluster. The account must be the same on
>> all nodes of this cluster, or you will receive an error message when you
>> attempt to connect to a cluster using Oracle Fail Safe Manager. You enter
>> the information in the form Domain\Username, as shown in Figure 2-9, or
>> if you are using Windows 2000, you can enter a user principal name in the
>> form Username_at_DnsDomainName in the Domain\Username box. "
>> So it would appear there is no reliance on Active Directory although a
>> Domain User account is required. The acccount should have local
>> administrator access on all nodes, this will in turn allow the
>> Oracleservices for MSCS the right to run as a service.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> William
>>
>>
>
> As a small addition: Make sure that the domain user is listed explicitely
> in the local administrators group on the nodes in the cluster - I had some
> nasty effects when on one node the domain user was explicitely listed, on
> an other node implicitely through a domain group.
>
> Cheers,
> Holger

Ahh, interesting. I will bear that in mind. Thanks again :-) Received on Wed May 25 2005 - 07:13:25 CDT

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