This guide describes how to use Oracle Fail Safe running on a Microsoft cluster system to configure Oracle databases.
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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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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