How the agent makes Oracle highly available

The Cluster Server agent for Oracle continuously monitors the Oracle database and listener processes to verify they function properly.

The agent provides the following levels of application monitoring:

The Oracle agent also supports IMF (Intelligent Monitoring Framework) in the process check mode of basic monitoring. IMF enables intelligent resource monitoring. The Oracle agent is IMF-aware and uses asynchronous monitoring framework (AMF) kernel driver for resource state change notifications.

See How the Oracle and Netlsnr agents support intelligent resource monitoring.

The agent detects application failure if the monitoring routine reports an improper function of the Oracle or listener processes. When this application failure occurs, the Oracle service group fails over to another node in the cluster. Thus the agent ensures high availability for the Oracle services and the database.

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