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Contents
List of Tables
Title and Copyright Information
Preface
Audience
Documentation Accessibility
Related Documents
Conventions
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Introduction to Oracle Database 2 Day + Real Application Clusters Guide
About This Guide
What This Guide Is Not
Related Materials
Oracle Real Application Clusters Documentation Overview
Goal of This Guide
Installing Oracle RAC on Different Operating Systems
Useful Oracle RAC Guides
About Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real Application Clusters
About Oracle Automatic Storage Management
Tools for Installing, Configuring and Managing Oracle RAC
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Preparing Your Cluster
Checking Requirements
Checking the Hardware Requirements
Identifying Network Requirements
Verifying the Installed Operating System and Software Requirements
Preparing the Server
Configuring Operating System Users and Groups
Configuring the Secure Shell
Generating RSA and DSA Keys
Adding the Keys to an Authorized Key File
Configuring SSH User Equivalency
Configuring the Operating System Environment
Configuring the Network
Verifying the Network Configuration
Preparing the Operating System and Software
Setting the Time on Both Nodes
Configuring Kernel Parameters
Performing Platform-Specific Configuration Tasks
Configuring Installation Directories and Shared Storage
Deciding on a Shared Storage Solution
Configuring the Raw Storage Devices and Partitions
Configuring Raw Devices on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0
Choosing an Oracle Base Directory
Choosing an Oracle Clusterware Home Directory
3
Installing and Configuring Oracle Clusterware and Oracle RAC
Preparing the Oracle Media Installation File
Installing Oracle Clusterware 10
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Configuring the Operating System Environment
Verifying the Configuration Using the Cluster Verification Utility
Using Oracle Universal Installer to Install Oracle Clusterware
Completing the Oracle Clusterware Configuration
Configuring Automatic Storage Management in an ASM Home Directory
Verifying Your ASM Installation
Installing the Oracle Database Software and Creating a Cluster Database
Verifying your Oracle RAC Database Installation
Configuring the Operating System Environment for Database Management
Update the oratab File
Reconfigure the User Shell Profile
Performing Postinstallation Tasks
Verifying the Clusterware Installation
Backing Up the Voting Disk
Downloading and Installing RDBMS Patches
Verifying Oracle Enterprise Manager Operations
Recommended Postinstallation Tasks
Backing Up the root.sh Script
Configuring User Accounts
Converting an Oracle Database to an Oracle RAC Database
Checking the Prerequisites
Making a Preconfigured Copy of the Single-Instance Database
Performing the Preinstallation Steps
Validating the Cluster
Copying the Preconfigured Database Files
Installing the Oracle Database 10
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Software with Real Application Clusters
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Administering Database Instances and Cluster Databases
Overview of Oracle RAC Database Management
Administering Oracle RAC with Enterprise Manager
Overview of Oracle Real Application Clusters: Oracle By Example Series
Starting and Stopping Oracle RAC Databases and Database Instances
Viewing and Modifying Oracle RAC Initialization Parameters
Configuring Initialization Parameters for an Oracle RAC Database
Parameters that Must Have Identical Settings on All Instances
Parameters that Must Have Unique Settings on All Instances
Parameters that Should Have Identical Settings on All Instances
Editing Initialization Parameter Settings for an Oracle RAC Database
Modifying Initialization Parameter for Oracle RAC Using the Current Tab
Modifying Initialization Parameter for Oracle RAC Using the SPFile Tab
Example: Modifying the OPEN_CURSORS Parameter
Modifying the SERVICE_NAMES Parameter for Oracle RAC
Configuring the Server Parameter File for Oracle Real Application Clusters
Administering Storage in Oracle RAC
Administering Automatic Undo Management in Oracle RAC
Administering Automatic Storage Management in Oracle RAC
About Automatic Storage Management Components in Oracle RAC
Modifying Disk Group Configurations for ASM in Oracle RAC
Standalone ASM Disk Group Management
Administering ASM Instances and Disk Groups with Enterprise Manager
Administering Redo Logs in Oracle RAC
About Redo Log Groups and Redo Threads in Oracle RAC Databases
Using Enterprise Manager to View and Create Online Redo Log Files
Exploring Your Cluster Database: Oracle By Example Series
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Administering Oracle Clusterware Components
About Oracle Clusterware
Backing Up and Recovering Voting Disks
Backing Up Voting Disks
Recovering Voting Disks
Adding and Removing Voting Disks
Backing Up and Recovering the Oracle Cluster Registry
Viewing Available OCR Backups
Backing Up the OCR
Recovering the OCR
Restoring the Oracle Cluster Registry from Automatically Generated OCR Backups
Recovering the OCR from an OCR Export File
Changing the Oracle Cluster Registry Configuration
Adding an OCR Location
Replacing an OCR
Repairing an Oracle Cluster Registry Configuration on a Local Node
Removing an Oracle Cluster Registry
Troubleshooting the Oracle Cluster Registry
Using the OCRCHECK Utility
Resolving Common Oracle Cluster Registry Problems
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Administering Backup and Recovery
Overview of Oracle RAC Database Backup and Recovery
Deploying a Flash Recovery Area in Oracle Real Application Clusters
Archiving in Oracle Real Application Clusters
Configuring Archiving for Your Oracle RAC Database
About Instance Access to Archived Log Files
Credentials for Performing Enterprise Manager Backup and Recovery
Configuring Backup Settings
Performing Backups of Your Oracle RAC Database
About Parallelism and Backups Across Multiple Channels
Backing Up Archived Logs
Preparing to Restore and Recover Your Oracle RAC Database
Configuring Access to the Redo Log Files
Putting the Oracle RAC Database Instances into the Correct State
Recovering Your Oracle RAC Database
Recovering the Parameter File from an Automatic File Backup
About Restoring Archived Log Files
Performing Recovery Using Parallelism
Managing Your Database Backups
Displaying Backup Reports for Your Oracle RAC Database
Performing Backups and Recovering Your Database: Oracle By Example Series
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Managing Database Workload Using Services
About Workload Management
About Oracle Services
Configuring Services for High Availability
About the Database Resource Manager
About Oracle RAC High Availability Framework
Enabling the Load Balancing Advisory
About Connection Load Balancing
Client-Side Load Balancing
Server-Side Load Balancing
About Runtime Connection Load Balancing
About Fast Application Notification (FAN)
About FAN Callouts
Creating Services
Configuring Oracle Net to Support Services
Administering Services
Administering Services with Enterprise Manager
Using the Cluster Managed Database Services Page
Using the Cluster Managed Database Services Detail Page
Configuring Service-Level Thresholds
Managing Services Using the Database Configuration Assistant
Transparent Application Failover: Oracle By Example Series
8
Monitoring and Troubleshooting
Using Performance Views in Oracle Real Application Clusters
GV$ Views
Monitoring Oracle RAC Database Performance
Using the Cluster Database Performance Page
Reviewing the Chart for Cluster Host Load Average
Reviewing the Chart for Global Cache Block Access Latency
Reviewing the Cluster Cache Coherency Page
Reviewing the Chart for Average Active Sessions
Reviewing the Charts for Database Throughput
Reviewing Other Performance-Related Charts
Top Consumers Page
Top Sessions Page
Instance Activity Page
Top Segments Page
Database Locks Page
Using the Automatic Workload Repository in Oracle RAC Environments
Troubleshooting Configuration Problems in Oracle RAC Environments
Using CRSCTL to Diagnose Cluster Issues
Obtaining Oracle Clusterware Component Names
Enabling Debugging of Oracle Clusterware Components
Enabling and Disabling Oracle Clusterware Daemons
Locating the Oracle Clusterware Alert Log
Enabling Debugging for an Oracle Clusterware Resource
Checking the Status of the Oracle Clusterware Installation
Locating the Oracle Clusterware Component Log Files
Running the Oracle Clusterware Diagnostics Collection Script
Using the Cluster Verification Utility to Diagnose Problems
Enabling Tracing
Checking the Settings for the Interconnect
Troubleshooting a Node with Status of UNKNOWN
Verifying the Existence of Node Applications
Verifying the Integrity of Oracle Clusterware Components
Verifying the Integrity of the Oracle Cluster Registry
Verifying the Integrity of Your Entire Cluster
Viewing Oracle RAC Database Alerts
Viewing Oracle RAC Database Alert Log Messages
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Adding Nodes and Instances
Preparing Access to the New Node
Extending the Oracle Clusterware Home Directory
Extending the Oracle Automatic Storage Management Home Directory
Extending the Oracle RAC Software Home Directory
Creating a Listener on the New Node
Adding a New Cluster Instance on the New Node
10
Managing Oracle Software and Applying Patches
Configuring the Enterprise Manager Patch Interface
Setting Oracle Meta
Link
Credentials
Running the Refresh_From_Metalink Job
Obtaining the Patch
Preparing to Use OPatch
Check ORACLE_HOME Environment Variable
Perform a Backup
Stage the Patch on Each Node
Update the PATH Environment Variable
Configure SSH User Equivalency
Applying Patches
All Node Patching
Rolling Patching
Minimum Downtime Patching
Applying Patch Sets
Troubleshooting Patch Deployment
Updating the Node List for OPatch
Viewing Log and Trace Files
Resolving the "Not a valid patch area" Error
Resolving the "Unable to remove a partially installed interim patch" Error
Index
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