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Stephan
Asked: 2011-03-15 02:48:05 +0800 CST

Switch RAC nodes using dbconsole in Oracle 11g

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Is it possible to use dbconsole (Enterprise Manager) to switch the active node of a Oracle 11gR2 cluster? The idea is to tell the active instance to go down and have another node take over.

I want to perform some failover testing and would like to see if the application under test follows but I am not sure what other ways to a brute-force shutdown of the active node's OS I have. Any help is appreciated :-)

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1 Answers

  1. For things where I don't want to be in the server room pulling power or network cables or disk controller cards and cables, I just stop the RAC node apps using software:

     srvctl stop nodeapps -n <nodename>
 srvctl stop listener -n <nodename>
 etc…

    You could also stop the actual cluster services as well:

     crsctl stop resources
 crsctl stop crs
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