Preface

This guide provides step-by-step procedures to help you install and deinstall Oracle Real Application Clusters Guard.

Intended Audience

This guide is intended for anyone who needs to perform the initial setup and installation of Oracle Real Application Clusters Guard on Windows NT and Windows 2000 systems.

In general, this book defines technical terms and concepts when they are introduced. However, it assumes that you know the underlying operating system and are familiar with basic system administration tasks. Also, you should be familiar with Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS), Oracle Net, and management of Oracle Real Application Clusters databases on Windows systems.

Structure

This guide contains five chapters, two appendixes, and an index.

Chapter 1 explains the process of setting up and installing Oracle Real Application Clusters Guard.

Chapter 2 provides step-by-step instructions for installing Oracle Real Application Clusters Guard software.

Chapter 3 describes how to start Oracle Real Application Clusters Guard Manager and connect to a cluster.

Chapter 4 describes how to deinstall Oracle Real Application Clusters Guard software.

Chapter 5 helps you to diagnose and troubleshoot problems that might occur during installations and deinstallations.

Appendix A describes how to automate the Oracle Real Application Clusters Guard installation by performing a silent installation.

Appendix B describes how to manually register and unregister the Oracle resource DLL files with the MSCS software.

Related Documents

In addition to this installation guide, the Oracle Real Application Clusters Guard documentation set includes the following:

• Oracle Real Application Clusters Guard Release Notes

• Oracle Real Application Clusters Guard Concepts and Administration Guide

• Oracle Services for MSCS Error Messages

• For online assistance, Oracle Real Application Clusters Guard Manager provides online help topics and a tutorial. To access the online help topics, click Help on the menu bar of the main Oracle Real Application Clusters Guard Manager window.

Refer to the following documentation for information about related products:

• For more information about Oracle Real Application Clusters, see the Oracle9i Real Application Clusters documentation.

• For more information about cluster systems, see the Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS) documentation.

• For more information about ODBC, see the Oracle ODBC documentation. Also, see the Oracle ODBC online Help file, which provides information specific to the Oracle implementation of the ODBC driver. (For example, it describes how to set up failover support, because that is not something defined by Microsoft.)

For more information about other related Oracle products, see the documentation for those products.

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