Hi,
I'm setting up an 840 filer for our DBA group to run about 4-to-5 Oracle
OLT databases and 4-to-5 Oracle DSS databases being served from about
1/2 a dozen Unix servers. This is something new to the DBAs in that they
are not experienced with NFS or anything like a filer; a common disk
storage. Their databases are married to specific Unix servers. The
project mandates that the environment needs to be set up in such a way
that if any Unix server fails, the database service that it was
providing could easily be brought up on any other available Unix
server. (So far no problem)
I have created and mapped out a quota tree into which I installed the
Oracle distribution. It looks something like:
/softwr/oracle/product/7.3.4
/7.3.5
this is then exported to all of the Unix servers.
The problem I have with is the Unix Oracle home directory that I also
created in /softwr/oracle/home, ie.
oracle:x:600:211:Oracle user:/softwr/oracle/home:/bin/ksh
but the DBAs are telling me that the oracle home directory needs to be unique
for each Unix server and Database running on that server because the
home directory is the place where they keep their environment.
How do other people deal with this? Do you create specific Unix
accounts for each Oracle database running on a server?
Thanks
George
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George Kahler e-mail: george(a)yorku.ca
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