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Gathering information to install and configure SF Oracle RAC

The SF Oracle RAC installation and configuration program prompts you for information about some SF Oracle RAC components. The program provides default values for some information, which you can choose to use. Keep the following required information at hand.

Required information to install and configure SF Oracle RAC lists the required information for installing SF Oracle RAC and configuring each SF Oracle RAC component.

Required information to install and configure SF Oracle RAC

Required information

Description

To install SF Oracle RAC depots

System names on which to install SF Oracle RAC 

Example: galaxy, nebula  

License keys 

License keys could be one of the following types: 

  • Valid license keys for each system in the cluster
  • Valid site license key
  • Valid demo license key

If you want to configure global clusters and enable disaster recovery, you must enter appropriate license keys. 

See Obtaining SF Oracle RAC license keys 

Do you want to install required SF Oracle RAC depots or all SF Oracle RAC depots? 

Install only the required depots if you do not want to configure any optional components or features. 

Default option is to install all depots. 

To configure Veritas Cluster Server component

Name of the cluster 

The name must begin with a letter of the alphabet (a-z, A-Z) and contain only the characters a through z, A through Z, and 1 through 0, hyphen (-), and underscore (_). 

Example: rac_cluster101 

Unique ID number for the cluster 

Number in the range of 0-65535. Within the site containing the cluster, each cluster must have a unique ID.  

Example: 101  

Device names of the NICs used by the private networks among systems 

Do not enter the network interface card that is used for the public network, which is typically lan0. 

Example: lan1, lan2  

To configure SF Oracle RAC clusters in secure mode (optional)

Which mode do you want to choose to configure Authentication Service? 

The installer provides you three modes to configure Authentication Service in the SF Oracle RAC clusters.  

  • automatic mode
  • semiautomatic mode using encrypted files
  • semiautomatic mode without using encrypted files

Default option is automatic mode. 

See Symantec Product Authentication Service 

Host name of the Symantec Product Authentication Service Root Broker System 

Example: venus 

To add SF Oracle RAC users (required if you did not configure the cluster in secure mode)

User name 

Example: smith  

User password 

Enter the password at the prompt. 

User privilege 

Users have three levels of privileges: A=Administrator, O=Operator, or G=Guest. 

Example: A  

To configure the Cluster Management Console cluster connector (optional)

Management Server network address for Cluster Management Console 

Example: mgmtserver1.symantecexample.com 

Cluster Management Console service account password  

You must have set this account password while installing the management server. 

Root hash of the management server 

You can use vssat showbrokerhash command and copy the root hash of the management server. 

To configure the Cluster Management Console (optional)

Name of the public NIC for each node in the cluster 

The device name for the NIC that provides public network access.  

Example: lan0 

Virtual IP address of the NIC for Cluster Management Console 

This virtual IP address becomes a resource for use by the ClusterService group that includes the Cluster Management Console. The "Cluster Virtual IP address" can fail over to another cluster system, making the Web Console highly available. 

Example: 10.10.12.1 

Netmask for the virtual IP address 

The subnet used with the virtual address. 

Example: 255.255.240.0 

NetworkHosts IP addreses to check the connection 

This IP address is used to check the adapter connections. 

Example: 10.10.12.12 

To configure SMTP email notification (optional)

Domain-based address of the SMTP server 

The SMTP server sends notification email about the events within the cluster. 

Example: smtp.symantecexample.com  

Email address of each SMTP recipient to be notified 

Example: john@symantecexample.com  

Minimum severity of events for SMTP email notification 

Events have four levels of severity: I=Information, W=Warning, E=Error, and S=SevereError. 

Example: E  

To configure SNMP trap notification (optional)

Port number for the SNMP trap daemon 

Default port number is 162. 

Machine name for each SNMP console 

Example: neptune  

Minimum severity of events for SNMP trap notification 

Events have four levels of severity: I=Information, W=Warning, E=Error, and S=SevereError. 

Example: E  

To configure global cluster option (optional)

Name of the public NIC 

You may use the same NIC that you configured for the ClusterService group. Otherwise, you must specify appropriate values for the NIC when you are prompted. 

Example: lan0 

Virtual IP address of the NIC 

You may use the same virtual IP address that you configured for the ClusterService group. Otherwise, you must specify appropriate values for the virtual IP address when you are prompted. 

Example: 10.10.12.1 

Netmask for the virtual IP address 

You may use the same netmask as configured for the ClusterService group. Otherwise, you must specify appropriate values for the netmask when you are prompted. 

Example: 255.255.240.0 

NetworkHosts IP addreses  

You may use the same NetworkHosts IP address as configured for the ClusterService group. Otherwise, you must specify appropriate values for the netmask when you are prompted. 

Example: 10.10.12.2 

To configure Cluster Volume Manager

CVM cluster reconfiguration timeout in seconds 

Default is 200. 

Do you want to configure enclosure-based naming scheme? 

Dynamic Multipathing (DMP) is a prerequisite for enclosure-based naming schemes.  

To configure Veritas Volume Replicator (optional)

Frequency of VVR statistics collection 

Default is 10 seconds. 

Number of days to preserve the collected statistics 

Default is 3 days. 

To configure I/O fencing

Name of three disks that will form the coordinator disk group 

Example: c1t1d0, c2t1d0, c3t1d0 

DMP nodes names for each disk in the coordinator disk group (if using DMP) 

Example: /dev/vx/dmp