The Veritas High Availability Agent for Oracle introduces the following changes:

• New monitoring option - The basic monitoring option of the Oracle agent now allows health check monitoring in addition to the process check monitoring. You can choose the health check monitoring option for Oracle 10g and later.

• Support for virtual fire drills - VCS requires you to keep the configurations in sync with the underlying infrastructure on a cluster node. Virtual fire drills detect such discrepancies that prevent a service group from going online on a specific system.

  Refer to the Veritas Cluster Server User's Guide for more information.

  The agent uses the Action entry point to support the virtual fire drill functionality.