Installing Oracle Apps 11.5.8 on 2 nodes with M/C Service Guard

[G Ravi Shankar]

Can any one pl give me the procedure for
Installing Oracle Apps 11.5.8 on 2 nodes on HP Machine with M/C Service Guard (Cluster), for the active/active & active/passive nodes

[Stuart Abramson_2]

Here is a high-level outline of the process:

1. Decide the architecture. There are two ways to do it:
a. One set of binaries that are shared.
This ensures that when you install a patch to oracle, it will appear on both "sides" fo the cluster, but you have to shut down to install an oracle binary patch.
b. Two sets of binaries, one on each host.
This allows you to install a patch on the "inactive" side and then fail the applicaiton over and then install on the other side. No down-time. However, it allows you get your two sides "out-of-synch", by NOT installing a patch on the active side and then forgetting.

2. Build a basic cluster with "basic" packages. Just floating ip addresses and file systems, but no startup scripts. Create the Oracle DB and APPs "floating host names".

3. Install Oracle Apps on the FLOATING HOST NAMES.

4. Put the startup scripts in the package control scripts.

Now you go...

[G Ravi Shankar]

Thanks for the reply.
I am installing the oracle apps 11i on 2 node installation.

node 1 (srfdb) : Oracle db server / concurent proc srever / report server

node 2 (srfapps): form server / web server

there are 2 floating host names with floating ip

1. oradb for ORADB
2. oracle for APPS

When I start installing the oracle apps by specifying the floating hostnames the installing comes out with the error that no components to install in this server since we are specifying the floating name. This can be avoided by specifying the floating hostname while starting the installation. But when we start to install in the 2nd server again the installing comes out with the error no components to install.

How to avoid this error & install the oracle Apps sucessful. PL help me.

Regards

Ravi Shankar