Oracle Grid Infrastructure: change the interval for the Cluster Verification Utility (ora.cvu)
Since Oracle 11.2.02. Oracle has integrated the Cluster Verification Utility (CVU) as a cluster resource. It‘s invoked every 6 hours and checks the health of your cluster. If you think, this is too often, you can change the interval. I‘ll show you how. Let‘s take a look at our cluster first: 1 2 3 4…
Patching Oracle 12.2 Grid Infrastructure before setting up a cluster
One of the first steps after setting up an Oracle cluster is patching the Grid Infrastructure to the most current patchlevel. Usually this has to be done on all cluster nodes separately and requires some time and effort. But what about patching the software before setting up the cluster?
Oracle Restart not deprecated anymore
Oracle Restart ist the Clusterware for single instance systems. You can use it to run a single instance system with (almost) the same commands as a cluster. For example, Oracle Restart takes over Starting and stopping of listeners and database instances. On “normal” Unix/Linux scripts you have to provide scripts for that. With the release…