Re: Oratab & Sun Solaris HA

From: Steve Harrison <steve.harrison_at_talk21.com>
Date: 2000/07/26
Message-ID: <397E9120.D51CCCB3_at_talk21.com>#1/1


John

Under Solaris HA the oratab file lives in /var/opt/oracle on both cluster nodes.
Simply copy it from node to the other.

The option to autostart the instance must be set to N.

Steve Harrison

John McMahon wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> A quick query on Oratab and running Sun Solaris HA for Oracle 8.1.5
>
> We intend to install Oracle on two separate Sun E450s which will be
> part of the same cluster. Sun Solaris HA should pick up any fatal
> errors in the 'live' instance and switch control over to the failover
> 450 - our problem lies with the Oratab file. This is located on the
> local disk of the first E450 and, obviously, the failover box needs
> access to this.
>
> Is it safe to copy the live instances oratab file to the second
> E450 or even change the location of said file so that it sits
> on the clustered disks ?
>
> Thanks in advance for any help you can offer,
>
> J.
Received on Wed Jul 26 2000 - 00:00:00 CEST

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