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Oracle Clusterware

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Objectives

After completing this lesson, you should be able to

describe:
CRS resources
RAC resources
Virtual IP addresses and RAC
OCR architecture
CRS framework
Cluster Verify

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Oracle Clusterware: Overview

Portable cluster infrastructure that provides high

availability to RAC databases and/or other applications:
Monitor applications health
Restart applications on failure
Can fail over applications on node failure
Protected App A
RAC DB Inst

RAC DB Inst

Listener

Listener

ORACLE_HOME

ORACLE_HOME

Protected App B

ORA_CRS_HOME

ORA_CRS_HOME

ORA_CRS_HOME

Oracle Clusterware
system files

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CRS Resources

A resource is a CRS-managed application.

Application profile attributes are stored in OCR:
Check interval
Failure policies

Action script
Privileges

Dependencies

An action script must do a:

Start of the application
Stop of the application
Check of the application

Life cycle of a resource:

crs_profile

crs_register

crs_start

crs_relocate
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crs_stat

crs_stop

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crs_unregister

RAC Resources
$ $CRS_HOME/crs_stat -t
Name
Type
Target State Host
---------------------------------------------------------------ora.atlhp8.ASM1.asm
application ONLINE ONLINE atlhp8
ora.atlhp8.LISTENER_ATLHP8.lsnr application ONLINE ONLINE atlhp8
ora.atlhp8.gsd
application ONLINE ONLINE atlhp8
ora.atlhp8.ons
application ONLINE ONLINE atlhp8
ora.atlhp8.vip
application ONLINE ONLINE atlhp8
ora.atlhp9.ASM2.asm
application ONLINE ONLINE atlhp9
ora.atlhp9.LISTENER_ATLHP9.lsnr application ONLINE ONLINE atlhp9
ora.atlhp9.gsd
application ONLINE ONLINE atlhp9
ora.atlhp9.ons
application ONLINE ONLINE atlhp9
ora.atlhp9.vip
application ONLINE ONLINE atlhp9
ora.xwkE.JF1.cs
application ONLINE ONLINE atlhp8
ora.xwkE.JF1.xwkE1.srv
application ONLINE ONLINE atlhp8
ora.xwkE.JF1.xwkE2.srv
application ONLINE ONLINE atlhp9
ora.xwkE.db
application ONLINE ONLINE atlhp9
ora.xwkE.xwkE1.inst
application ONLINE ONLINE atlhp8
ora.xwkE.xwkE2.inst
application ONLINE ONLINE atlhp9

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Virtual IP Addresses and RAC

clnode-1 clnode-2

clnode-1vip

clnode-2vip
2

ERP=(DESCRIPTION=
4 1 ((HOST=clusnode-1))
((HOST=clusnode-2))
6
(SERVICE_NAME=ERP))
Timeout
5
wait

Clients

ERP=(DESCRIPTION=
5 1 ((HOST=clusnode-1vip))
((HOST=clusnode-2vip))
6
(SERVICE_NAME=ERP))
7

7
3

clnode-1 clnode-2

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clnode-2vip

4 clnode-1vip

OCR Architecture

Node1

Node2

Node3

OCR cache

OCR cache

OCR cache

CRS
process

CRS
process

CRS
process

Client
process
Shared
storage

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OCR
primary
file

Client
process

OCR
mirror
file

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Automatic OCR Backups

The OCR content is critical to Oracle Clusterware.
OCR is automatically backed up physically:
Every four hours: CRS keeps the last three.
At the end of every day: CRS keeps the last two.
At the end of every week: CRS keeps the last two.
$ cd$ORACLE_BASE/Crs/cdata/jfv_clus
$ ls -lt
-rw-r--r--rw-r--r--rw-r--r--rw-r--r--rw-r--r--rw-r--r--rw-r--r--

1
1
1
1
1
1
1

root
root
root
root
root
root
root

root
root
root
root
root
root
root

4784128
4784128
4784128
4784128
4784128
4784128
4005888

Jan 9
Jan 9
Jan 8
Jan 8
Jan 8
Jan 6
Dec 30

02:54
02:54
22:54
18:54
02:54
02:54
14:54

backup00.ocr
day_.ocr
backup01.ocr
backup02.ocr
day.ocr
week_.ocr
week.ocr

Change the default automatic backup location:

# ocrconfig backuploc /shared/bak
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Third-Party Application Protection: Overview

High availability framework:
Command-line tools to register applications with CRS
Calls control application agents to manage applications
OCR used to describe CRS attributes for the applications

High availability C API:

Modify CRS attributes directly in OCR
Modify CRS attributes at run time

Application VIPs:
Used for applications accessed by network means
NIC redundancy
NIC failover

OCFS:
Store application configuration files
Share files between cluster nodes
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Use CRS Framework: Overview

1. Create an application VIP if necessary:

a)
b)
c)
d)

Create a profile: Network data + usrvip predefined script

Register the application VIP.
Set user permissions on the application VIP.
Start the application VIP by using crs_start.

2. Write an application action script that accepts three

parameters:

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start: Script should start the application.

check: Script should confirm the application is up.
stop: Script should stop the application.

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Use CRS Framework: Overview

3. Create an application profile:

Action script location

Check interval
Failover policies
Application VIP if necessary

4. Set permissions on your application.

5. Register the profile with Oracle Clusterware.
6. Start your application using crs_start.

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Cluster Verify: Overview

To verify that you have a well-formed cluster for Oracle

Clusterware and RAC, check the:
Installation
Configuration
Operation

Full stack verification

Non-intrusive verification
Diagnostic mode seeks to establish a reason for the
failure of any verification task.
Easy-to-use interface:
Stage commands
Component commands
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Cluster Verify Stages

-pre dbcfg

$ cluvfy stage -list

Configures
RAC DB

-pre dbinst
Installs
RAC

-pre crsinst

Installs
CRS

-pre cfs

-post crsinst
Sets up OCFS
( OPT )

-post cfs
User sets up the
hardware,
network, & storage

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-post hwos

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Demos

Apache
Xclock
http://www.oracle.com/technology/obe/demos/admin/demos.html

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Summary

In this lesson, you should have learned about:

CRS resources
RAC resources
Virtual IP addresses and RAC
OCR architecture
CRS framework
Cluster Verify

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