You can achieve that using services. You define a service and set it as enabled on only the subset of nodes you want to connect to, then in the TNS entry you use that service in SERVICE_NAME and SCAN will hand off the connections to the apropriate nodes. hth Alan.- On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Anurag Verma <anuragdba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If you implement SCAN for your 3 or 4 Node 11gR2 RAC, how do you setup > client applications to connect to a particular set of nodes? > For example, say, you want your HR application connect to only node 1 and 2 > and Payroll application connect to only 2 and 3? > > Since TNS entry will have only SCAN name, how do we configure to direct the > client applications to connect to only a set of nodes? > > > > -- > > Anurag Verma, > Database Administrator > ERCOT(Electric Reliability Council of Texas), > Texas 76574 > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l