Re: Oracle RAC listener on a 2nd network

  • From: Stalin <stalinsk@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "nupendra@xxxxxxxxxxx" <nupendra@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 19:38:55 -0700

We are running most of our RAC installs in two network setup using 
listener_networks in 11gR2 without issues.

Scan listens on public network and a dedicated listener on 2nd network where 
our back office application connects to DB using 10g version of connect string. 

Stalin

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> On Apr 21, 2014, at 7:19 PM, Upendra <nupendra@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Riyaj, Thanks for pointing out about the 12c scan. I will look into it.
> 
> My preference would be to find a way to make this work without going through 
> an upgrade..
> Could we bypass the SCAN listeners and connect to the instances directly? 
> What kind of issues am I inviting? 
> 
> Thanks much
> -Upendra
> 
> From: riyaj.shamsudeen@xxxxxxxxx
> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 16:53:27 -0700
> Subject: Re: Oracle RAC listener on a 2nd network
> To: nupendra@xxxxxxxxxxx
> CC: andrew.kerber@xxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Scan listeners in the second network is supported from 12c. So, another 
> option is to upgrade the clusterware to 12c,create the new database in 12c, 
> and keep the existing database in 11.2.0.4 for now. 
> 
> However, i have not tested this configuration and so, YMMV.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Riyaj Shamsudeen
> Principal DBA,
> Ora!nternals -  http://www.orainternals.com - Specialists in Performance, RAC 
> and EBS
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> 
> Co-author of the books: Expert Oracle Practices, Pro Oracle SQL, Expert RAC 
> Practices 12c. Expert PL/SQL practices
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 4:46 PM, Upendra <nupendra@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yeah. The second database will be part of the same cluster. 
> 
> 
> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 18:30:37 -0500
> Subject: Re: Oracle RAC listener on a 2nd network
> From: andrew.kerber@xxxxxxxxx
> To: nupendra@xxxxxxxxxxx
> CC: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
> Sounds tricky.  Is this second database clustered? Failover configuration 
> might be kind of iffy.
> 
> 
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Upendra <nupendra@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello All - 
> I have a 11.2.0.4 Oracle RAC running on Sparc platform with 3 nodes. I have 
> the scan listeners configured on Network_A and an application is using the 
> scan Listeners.
> 
> Without impacting the above setup, I would like to create a second database 
> in the RAC environment and setup access for another set of applications 
> through another network Network_B. They both are independent networks (its a 
> requirement based on the legacy networks we have). I need the listener for 
> the second database to be listening on Network_B.  
> 
> Example:
> Network_A - 192.168.6.x
> Network_B - 10.120.2.x
> 
> What are my options in creating such a setup and what are the 
> limitations/constraints in this setup?
> 
> I'd assume if I bypass the SCAN listeners and access the database listener 
> directly, I'd have to keep up with the cluster changes at the application 
> layer (like node additions/removal etc).. Similar to Oracle 10g RAC - 
> anything else?
> 
> Thanks much
> -Upendra
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Andrew W. Kerber
> 
> 'If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving.'
> 

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