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 Sent from my Mobile > 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 > Blog: http://orainternals.wordpress.com/ > Oracle ACE Director and OakTable member > > 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.' >