1. Administrator's Guide
  2. Managing Recovery Appliance
  3. Implementing Additional High Availability Strategies
  4. Implementing DR Failover to Downstream Recovery Appliance
  5. Setup and Configuration for Failover
  6. Creating VPC Users

Creating VPC Users

This task creates database VPC user accounts in the upstream and downstream Recovery Appliances.

When creating the accounts, keep in mind these password requirements.

  • The first VPC user (HADR_LOCAL_VPCUSER) account may be used by other protected databases and can have different passwords between the RAHADR1 and RAHADR2 Recovery Appliances.
  • The second VPC user (HADR_COMMON_VPCUSER) account must use the same password on both the RAHADR1 and RAHADR2 Recovery Appliances and can be used by other protected databases

The following conditions are applicable to this specific example.

  • Recovery Appliance RAHADR1 has previously been installed with a DB_UNIQUE_NAME of rahadr1.
  • Recovery Appliance RAHADR2 has previously been installed with a DB_UNIQUE_NAME of rahadr2.
  1. Create two VPC users for the protected database on the upstream Recovery Appliance RAHADR1.
    # racli add db_user --user_name HADR_LOCAL_VPCUSER --user_type=vpc
[HADR_LOCAL_VPCUSER] New Password: ***********
Sun Mar 25 08:27:53 2018: Start: Add vpc user HADR_LOCAL_VPCUSER.
Sun Mar 25 08:27:53 2018: Add vpc user HADR_LOCAL_VPCUSER successfully.
Sun Mar 25 08:27:53 2018: End: Add vpc user HADR_LOCAL_VPCUSER.

# racli add db_user --user_name HADR_COMMON_VPCUSER --user_type=vpc
[HADR_COMMON_VPCUSER] New Password: ***********
Sun Mar 25 08:27:53 2018: Start: Add vpc user HADR_COMMON_VPCUSER.
Sun Mar 25 08:27:53 2018: Add vpc user HADR_COMMON_VPCUSER successfully.
Sun Mar 25 08:27:53 2018: End: Add vpc user HADR_COMMON_VPCUSER.
  2. Create two VPC users for the protected database on the downstream Recovery Appliance RAHADR2.
    # racli add db_user --user_name HADR_LOCAL_VPCUSER --user_type=vpc
[HADR_LOCAL_VPCUSER] New Password: ***********
Sun Mar 25 08:27:53 2018: Start: Add vpc user HADR_LOCAL_VPCUSER.
Sun Mar 25 08:27:53 2018: Add vpc user HADR_LOCAL_VPCUSER successfully.
Sun Mar 25 08:27:53 2018: End: Add vpc user HADR_LOCAL_VPCUSER.

# racli add db_user --user_name HADR_COMMON_VPCUSER --user_type=vpc
[HADR_COMMON_VPCUSER] New Password: ***********
Sun Mar 25 08:27:53 2018: Start: Add vpc user HADR_COMMON_VPCUSER.
Sun Mar 25 08:27:53 2018: Add vpc user HADR_COMMON_VPCUSER successfully.
Sun Mar 25 08:27:53 2018: End: Add vpc user HADR_COMMON_VPCUSER.
  3. If the VPC user account used by the replication server for sending backups from the upstream (HARADR1) to the downstream (RAHADR2) Recovery Appliances hasn't been created, create the VPC user now.
    # racli add db_user --user_name REPUSER_FROM_HADR1 --user_type=vpc
[REPUSER_FROM_HADR1] New Password: ***********

Sun Mar 25 08:35:01 2018: Start: Add vpc user REPUSER_FROM_HADR1.
Sun Mar 25 08:35:01 2018: Add vpc user REPUSER_FROM_HADR1 successfully.
Sun Mar 25 08:35:01 2018: End: Add vpc user REPUSER_FROM_HADR1.