OS: Linux OS Version: SLES9 (i586/x86_64) Fixes Applied for Products: VRTSvcsor - Veritas High Availability Agent for Oracle by Symantec Additional Instructions: Please read the instructions below before installing the patch. PATCH VRTSvcsor 5.0MP2HF1 for VCS Oracle Agent 5.0MP2 =============================================================== Patch Date: September, 2009 This README provides information on: * BEFORE GETTING STARTED * CRC AND BYTE COUNT * FIXES AND ENHANCEMENTS INCLUDED IN THE PATCH * PACKAGES AFFECTED BY THE PATCH * INSTALLING THE PATCH * UNINSTALLING THE PATCH BEFORE GETTING STARTED: ---------------------- This patch only applies to: VRSTvcsor 5.0MP2 or higher running on SLES9 (i586/x86_64) Ensure that you are running the supported configurations before installing this patch. CRC AND BYTE COUNT: ------------------ Ensure that the patch file you have downloaded matches the following checksum and byte count. The following command can be used to ascertain this: # cksum VRTSvcsor-5.0.20.01-MP2HF1_SLES9.i586.rpm 1947040988 880665 VRTSvcsor-5.0.20.01-MP2HF1_SLES9.i586.rpm FIXES AND ENHANCEMENTS INCLUDED IN THE PATCH: -------------------------------------------- Etrack Incidents: 1838034 SDR's of Fixed Symantec Incidents: -------------------------------- Symantec Incident : 1838034 Symptom: When many processes are running on the system with substing "_SID", the agent will not be able to detect whether Oracle instance in online or not. Defect Description: With many processes running with a substring "_SID", the agent when tries to come online might not be able to capture the running oracle processes, due to its buffer's size limit of 4096 bytes. Resolution: Now the problem is fixed by searching for only Oracle instance processes. PACKAGES AFFECTED BY THE PATCH: ------------------------------- This patch updates the following VCS package(s) VRTSvcsor from 5.0MP2 (5.0.20.0) or higher to 5.0MP2HF1 (5.0.20.01) INSTALLING THE PATCH: -------------------- The following steps should be run on all nodes in the VCS cluster: Stopping VCS on the cluster node: -------------------------------- Stop Oracle and Netlsnr agents using: # haagent -stop Oracle -sys [system_name] -force # haagent -stop Netlsnr -sys [system_name] -force Installing the Patch: -------------------- 1. Un-compress the downloaded patch from Symantec. Change directory to the unzipped patch location. Install the VRTSvcsor patch using the following command: # rpm -Uvh VRTSvcsor-5.0.20.01-MP2HF1_SLES9.i586.rpm 2. Verify that the new patch has been installed: # rpm -q VRTSvcsor You will find the following output on display with the patch installed properly: VRTSvcsor-5.0.20.01-MP2HF1 Re-starting VCS on the cluster node: ----------------------------------- Start Oracle & Netlsnr agents using # haagent -start Oracle -sys [system_name] # haagent -start Netlsnr -sys [system_name] UNINSTALLING THE PATCH: ----------------------- Removal of the patch will result in removing whole package from the system/node. To go back to a previous installed version of the package, you may need to re-install the package again. Following steps need to be run on all nodes : Steps to remove the Patch from a cluster node: --------------------------------------------- 1. Follow the steps provided under "Stopping VCS on the cluster node" section above. 2. Remove the patch by the following command: # rpm -e VRTSvcsor 3. Verify that the patch has been removed from the system: # rpm -qa | grep VRTSvcsor The package VRTSvcsor should not be displayed, which confirms that the package is removed. 4. Install VRTSvcsor package from VCS 5.0MP2 Installer CD/DVD or higher. 5. Restart the node following the steps under "Re-starting VCS on the cluster node" section above.