[Spacewalk-list] Clustering Spacewalk.

[Paul Robert Marino]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:07 AM, Michael Mraka <michael.mraka at redhat.com> wrote:
> Bernard McCormack wrote:
> % I was wondering if any one has done clustered DB (Oracle 11gr2) with
> % spacewalk using db clustering . We want to have spacewalk stay up in a
> % different location in case we lose the site to site link. .  I have
>
> Hello Bernard,
>
> Assuming clustered DB means Oracle Real Application Cluster (aka RAC) -
> yes, you can point spacewalk to RAC. Just create /etc/tnsnames.ora with
> appropriate service description and pass that service name to
> spacewalk-setup as database name.
>
> On the other hand RAC might be a good performance booster rather
> recovery solution.
>
> % tried to set up multimaster replication (Oracle), but a number of
> % tables are missing primary keys. Any help\ thoughts would be
> % appreciated.
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by multimaster replication.
> Correct disaster recovery solution is Oracle Data Guard (aka Standby database).

Are you referring to an active active mode on a shared volume with a
clustered file system like OCFS2?
If so the problem you are describing sounds like your OCFS
configuration isn't correct, otherwise one of your host would be
fenced if there was an inconsistency like that.


>
> % Thanks,
> % --Bernard McCormack.
>
> Regards,
>
> --
> Michael Mráka
> Satellite Engineering, Red Hat
>
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