Oracle CRS 10.1 didn’t provide any straightforward way to change to change a single property of a resource. Assume you need to change check interval of a VIP resource from standard 60 seconds to 10 seconds. The steps are below.

Create .cap file with properties – “crs_stat -p ora.node1.vip >/tmp/ora.node1.vip.cap”
Edit /tmp/ora.node1.vip.cap to change line CHECK_INTERVAL=10
Load .cap […]

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I was reviewing abstracts for UKOUG conference 2006 and saw a lot of very good ones! I sent couple abstract myself but I am afraid that next to the famous speakers there mines would look faded. At least, I would understand if none of my presentations “make it to the finals”.
Well, Russians didn’t make it […]

I haven’t posted anything for few days as I was actually busy choosing a hosting provider and moving the blog over to my own web site. After several days of disgusting service from blogger.com, looking at Doug’s Oracle Blog hacked and reading Tom’s Kidnapped Blog I decided to switch from free service to […]

I’ve been struggling for a while to post anything or comment on any blog on blogger.com today. Redirected to http://www.blogger.com/sorry.html with message:
Down for Maintenance
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We will be back up as soon as possible.
Update (2:20 pm PDT): We are fixing a database issue. We hope to be back up […]

Cloning ORACLE_HOME…
At the company I work for now, we used to simply copy oracle homes over another machine and/or path, recreate some links and relink. Works very well for 9i including RAC. With 10g and CRS it stopped working - it was a mess registering CRS resources afterwards. Another disadvantage was that Oracle inventory wasn’t […]

Doug Burns posted a long awaited Cow today. This is quite different from what I see here in Munich.
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PS: Others on the pix are my son, wife and sister.
PPS: To many TARs updated last days - I just realized that I put dots on empty line just like on […]

I took these shots couple weeks ago on the way to work. These snails are quite cute.
I try to post pics first time directly from Picasa - let’s see how it works.
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