Using Fast Application Notification Callouts .............................................................................

5-16
User Callout Events ................................................................................................................. 5-17
Load Balancing Advisory..................................................................................................................... 5-17
Overview of the Load Balancing Advisory ................................................................................. 5-18
Configuring Your Environment to Use the Load Balancing Advisory................................... 5-18
Load Balancing Advisory FAN Events ....................................................................................... 5-19
Monitoring Load Balancing Advisory FAN Events................................................................... 5-19
Oracle Clients That Are Integrated with Fast Application Notification .................................... 5-20
Overview of Oracle Integrated Clients and FAN....................................................................... 5-20
Enabling JDBC Clients for Fast Connection Failover................................................................. 5-21
Oracle Notification Service for JDBC Clients....................................................................... 5-21
Configuring FCF for JDBC/OCI and JDBC Thin Driver Clients ...................................... 5-22
Enabling JDBC Clients for Runtime Connection Load Balancing ........................................... 5-23
Enabling Oracle Call Interface Clients for Fast Connection Failover ...................................... 5-23
Enabling Oracle Call Interface Clients for Runtime Connection Load Balancing ................. 5-24
Enabling ODP.NET Clients to Receive FAN High Availability Events.................................. 5-25
Enabling ODP.NET Clients to Receive FAN Load Balancing Advisory Events.................... 5-26
Services and Distributed Transaction Processing in Oracle RAC ............................................... 5-27
Overview of XA Transactions and DTP Services ....................................................................... 5-27
Benefits of DTP Services for XA Transactions ............................................................................ 5-28
Using DTP Services with Oracle RAC ......................................................................................... 5-28
Configuring DTP Services.............................................................................................................. 5-29
Relocating DTP Services in Administrator-Managed Databases............................................. 5-29
Administering Services ........................................................................................................................ 5-29
Overview of Service Administration............................................................................................ 5-29
Administering Services with Oracle Enterprise Manager ........................................................ 5-31
Administering Services with SRVCTL......................................................................................... 5-32
Creating Services with SRVCTL ............................................................................................ 5-32
Starting and Stopping Services with SRVCTL..................................................................... 5-32
Enabling and Disabling Services with SRVCTL.................................................................. 5-32
Relocating Services with SRVCTL......................................................................................... 5-33
Obtaining the Statuses of Services with SRVCTL ............................................................... 5-33
Obtaining the Configuration of Services with SRVCTL..................................................... 5-33
Measuring Performance by Service Using the Automatic Workload Repository .................... 5-34
Automatic Workload Repository Service Thresholds and Alerts................................................ 5-35
Example of Services and Thresholds Alerts ............................................................................... 5-36
Enable Service, Module, and Action Monitoring ....................................................................... 5-36

6 Configuring Recovery Manager and Archiving

Overview of Configuring RMAN for Oracle RAC............................................................................ 6-1
Archiving Mode in Oracle RAC ............................................................................................................ 6-1
Configuring the RMAN Snapshot Control File Location ................................................................ 6-2
Configuring RMAN to Automatically Backup the Control File and SPFILE .............................. 6-2
Crosschecking on Multiple Oracle RAC Nodes................................................................................. 6-3
Configuring Channels for RMAN in Oracle RAC............................................................................. 6-3
Configuring Channels to Use Automatic Load Balancing........................................................... 6-3
Configuring Channels to Use a Specific Node............................................................................... 6-4

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