Re: What is CRS and what should it be used for?

Ian Turner wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been looking through the 10g manuals to try to understand exactly what
> Cluster Ready Services (CRS) is for and have failed. I have found some
> command-line references for how to put processes, instances and applications
> under CRS control.
>
> What I'd like to find is information of a more general nature, e.g.
> - what CRS does?
> - what is can be used for
> - what it shouldn't be used for
> - can it be used for managing 3rd party (e.g. non-Oracle) components and
> applications,
> o more importantly should it be used for this purpose and has anyone
> any experience of doing so
> - what is the difference between CRS and using OEM grid control
> o is the 2nd simply a tool for managing the items being controlled in a
> CRS environment?
>
> thanks in advance
>
> Ian

And I would like Oracle to actually document the CRS and that hasn't happened either. There is more on CRS in the 10gR2 Beta docs then in the 10gR1 production docs ... and still it is wholly inadequate.

Unless Mr. Townsend can get us some links I will be queued up right behind you perhaps for a very long time.

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