OS: HP-UX OS Version: 11i v3 Fixes Applied for Products: VRTSvcsor - Veritas High Availability Agent for Oracle by Symantec Additional Instructions: Please read the following instructions before installing the patch. PATCH PVCO_03897 for VCS Oracle Agent 5.0 (11i v3) ================================================== Patch Date: July, 2009 This README provides information on the following: * BEFORE GETTING STARTED * FIXES AND ENHANCEMENTS INCLUDED IN THE PATCH * PACKAGES AFFECTED BY THE PATCH * INSTALLING THE PATCH * UNINSTALLING THE PATCH * KNOWN ISSUES BEFORE GETTING STARTED: ---------------------- This patch should be applied to: VRTSvcsor 5.0 running on HP-UX 11i v3 or VRTSvcsor 5.0RP2 running on HP-UX 11i v3 Ensure that you are running the supported configurations before installing this patch. FIXES AND ENHANCEMENTS INCLUDED IN THE PATCH: -------------------------------------------- Etrack Incidents: 1718459 SDR's of Fixed Symantec Incidents: --------------------------------- Symantec Incident : 1718459 Symptom: When you set an error corresponding to an ORA error in the "oraerror.dat" file, the agent does not honor the corresponding action. Instead, the agent fails over the resource. Defect Description: This happens because the function call for parsing the ORA errors and taking the corresponding action was missing. Resolution: The ORA errors are populated in the VCSAgStartUp() function. Once the ORA errors and its corresponding actions are populated, the agent will start performing action to the corresponding error. PACKAGES AFFECTED BY THE PATCH : ------------------------------- This patch updates the following VCS package(s) VRTSvcsor from 5.0 (or 5.0RP2) to 5.0RP2HF1 on HP-UX 11i v3 INSTALLING THE PATCH : -------------------- The following steps should be run on all nodes in the VCS cluster: A] Stopping the VCS agent on the cluster node: --------------------------------------------- Stop the VCS agent in the cluster node with the following command: # haagent -stop Oracle -sys [sysname] -force B] Installing the Patch: ----------------------- 1. Extract the downloaded patch from Symantec website. Change directory to the unzipped patch location. Install the VRTSvcsor patch using the following command: # swinstall -s `pwd`/patches -x autoreboot=true PVCO_03897 2. Verify that the new patch has been installed: # swlist PVCO_03897 You will find the following output on display with the patch installed properly: PVCO_03897 1.0 VRTS 5.0 RP2 HF1 VRTSvcsor Command Patch C] Re-starting the VCS agent on the cluster node: ------------------------------------------------ After successful installation of the patch, run the following command for restarting the agent: # haagent -start Oracle -sys [sysname] UNINSTALLING THE PATCH: ----------------------- The following steps should be run on all nodes in the VCS cluster: A] To remove the patch from a cluster node: ------------------------------------------ 1. Follow the steps provided under "Stopping the VCS agent on the cluster node" section above, to stop VCS agent on the node. 2. Remove the patch by the following command: # swremove -x autoreboot=true PVCO_03897 3. Verify that the patch has been removed from the system: # swlist | grep PVCO_03897 There will be no output on the display following this command, for a successful removal. 4. Restart the VCS Agent following the steps under "Re-starting the VCS agent on the cluster node" section above. KNOWN ISSUES: ------------ e1531512: OracleAgent picks up only the last corresponding action from oraerror.dat ignoring the previous.