[Linux-cluster] Multiple oracle databases with RHCS

[Lon Hohberger]

On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 11:25 +0000, Finnur Örn Guðmundsson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running 3 RHCS clusters that have one Oracle database.
> 
> Now i need to configure a RHCS cluster that will be running 4 databases,
> but from my initial testing i can see i need to have a special user for
> each database.

> However, in other cluster software we are used to use only single oracle
> user (ie: ServiceGuard) and we've had no issues there. So i am wondering,
> is there any reason why Red Hat has choosen to do this like this or would
> it be ok if i would just modify the oracledb.sh script so i can have a
> single user....would it still be supported ?

You can edit it, but you need to modify the oracledb.sh script to not
kill all processes.  There's a bugzilla open about this one:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=458481

In the bugzilla is a better approximation of a multiple instance
Oracledb.sh with a bug in it (and possible fix).

We don't have a lot of reports on people running this in larger
environments, so any feedback you provide will be helpful.

-- Lon