The Veritas Cluster Server agent for Oracle includes the following new or enhanced features:

• Support for Oracle 11g

• Support to detect intentional offline

  The Oracle agent has a new IntentionalOffline attribute with the default value as 1. If you enable Health check monitoring option, the agent detects graceful shutdown for Oracle 10g and later.

  See Oracle attribute definitions.

• The agent supports CUSTOM as one of the start up options when you use Hot backup feature of Oracle.

  See Hot backup of Oracle database in VCS environment.

• The agent supports a new action entry point pfile.vfd.

  See Action entry point.

• The agent also supports csh and tcsh shell when Health check monitoring is enabled.