hrishy you need to use Fast Connection Failover for that purpose which is based on Fast Application Notification mechanism thanks -- LSC On Jan 30, 2008 10:19 AM, hrishy <hrishys@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi > > Can TAF be used to detect node failover and redirect > the connections to a new node using retry and delay so > all my clients detect that host db1 is down and need > to start connecting to db2 . > > I am not using RAC.Oracle version is 10.2 > > > > GRID = > (DESCRIPTION = > (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = > my.db1.com)(PORT = 1521)) > (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = > my.db2.com)(PORT = 1521)) > (LOAD_BALANCE = yes) > (CONNECT_DATA = > (SERVICE_NAME = grid) > (FAILOVER_MODE = > (TYPE = SELECT) > (METHOD = BASIC) > (RETRIES = 1) > (DELAY = 1) ) > ) > ) > > > > __________________________________________________________ > Sent from Yahoo! Mail - a smarter inbox http://uk.mail.yahoo.com > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > >