Oracle FAQ Your Portal to the Oracle Knowledge Grid
HOME | ASK QUESTION | ADD INFO | SEARCH | E-MAIL US
 

Home -> Community -> Usenet -> c.d.o.server -> Re: RAC does not failover to public network when private network fails

Re: RAC does not failover to public network when private network fails

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2006 11:55:25 -0700
Message-ID: <1149447328.217114@bubbleator.drizzle.com>


shaper wrote:
> Hello,
>
> we have the following situation:
>
> 2 AIX 5.3 cluster nodes with Oracle DB 10.2.0.2
> The private_interconnect and public network is 1 Gbit. The public
> network is configured as EtherChannel, the interconnect is not. When we
> pull out the cable from private_interconnect then the RAC does not
> failover to the public network. Both instances are hanging and after
> approx. 20 minutes one node is rebooted by CRS because of split-brain.
>
> How can we solve this problem? I think RAC should failover to public
> network when private fails.
>
> Best regards
> Sven

The behaviour you are seeing is normal though a 20 minute hang time is not. Split brain should cause a reboot. Check you NIC cards and AIX to see if keep-alive has been configured.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace x with u to respond)
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
www.psoug.org
Received on Sun Jun 04 2006 - 13:55:25 CDT

Original text of this message

HOME | ASK QUESTION | ADD INFO | SEARCH | E-MAIL US