Preface

This guide describes how to use Oracle Fail Safe running on a Microsoft cluster system to configure the following for high availability:

• Oracle single-instance databases

• Applications installed as Windows generic services

• Oracle Management Agent

• Oracle Application Server components

Audience

This guide is intended for anyone who is interested in how Oracle Fail Safe minimizes downtime for software components running on a Microsoft cluster.

Readers should be familiar with Failover Clusters, Oracle Net networking, and the applications for which they want to provide high availability.

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Related Documents

Refer to the following documentation for more information about Oracle Fail Safe:

• For more information about updates to the software, access to online documentation, and other release-specific information, see Oracle Fail Safe Release Notes for Microsoft Windows.

• For installation, deinstallation, and upgrade instructions, see Oracle Fail Safe Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows.

• For online assistance, Oracle Fail Safe Manager provides help topics online. To access the online help topics, select Help Topics from the Help menu bar in Oracle Fail Safe Manager.

• For more information about Oracle Call Interface, see Oracle Call Interface Programmer's Guide.

• For more information about ODBC, see Microsoft ODBC documentation.

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

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