any pointers ?

[Stan_17]

Hi all,

we are running mc/sg A.11.09 on our hp boxes with the HA option and have couple of oracle databases which are being monitored. I would really appericate if anyone could give me a pointer to a nice documentation as to how these work. I ran through few files like cluster.CONF, pkg.conf, pkg.ctl but like to know more info.

thanks!
stan

[Michael Tully]

Hi Stan,

Here is a great starting point:

http://docs.hp.com/hpux/ha/index.html

Regards
Michael

[Tom Geudens]

Hi Stan,
As you'll read through the information Michael pointed you to, you'll notice that this is NOT easy material. I'm 80% selftaught (and mostly by reading / rereading the manuals myself), but "Hands On with MC/ServiceGuard" is one HP training you really should take. I have been doing the troubleshooting for clusters (we've got 150 - and counting - of 2-node clusters) for about a year now, but only after the training (after 9 months ... typical ;-) I really had an idea about what I was doing.

Just my humble opinion off course ;-)
Regards,
Tom

[BFA6]

Hi,

I had a book - Clusters for High Availability by Peter Weygant, which explains the concepts of high availability.
The Hands-on with MC/ServiceGuard is a very good course, and will give you more info on how ServiceGuard works & how to configure clusters. I would definitely recommend it.

Regards,

Hilary

[Ashwani Kashyap]

docs.hp.com has all the HA documentation . If you are specifically looking at monitoring databases in a SG environment , then also take a look at the documentation for ECM ( Enterprise Cluster Master Toolkit ).

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Stan,

Try this cookbook from itrc,

http://us-support2.external.hp.com/iv/data/documents/DE_SW_UX_swrec_EN_01_E/ServiceGuard.pdf

This will help you in understanding and troubleshooting your SG problems.

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Stan_17]

thanks everybody for your inputs. i really appericiate it. now i can have a good head start :-)

stan