Storage Foundation for Oracle® RAC 7.4.1 Configuration and Upgrade Guide - Solaris

To configure the PrivNIC and private IP address information

1. From the SF Oracle RAC menu, enter 3 to select the option Oracle Network Configuration.

   1)  Create Oracle Users and Groups
   2)  Create Storage for OCR and Voting disk
   3)  Oracle Network Configuration
   4)  Exit SF Oracle RAC Configuration
   b)  Back to previous menu
   Choose option: [1-4,b,q] (1) 3

2. Enter 2 to select the option Configure private IP addresses (PrivNIC Configuration) - For Oracle RAC prior to 11.2.0.2.

   1) Configure private IP addresses (For HAIP Configuration) 
   - For Oracle RAC 11.2.0.2 and later
   2) Configure private IP addresses (PrivNIC Configuration) 
   - For Oracle RAC prior to 11.2.0.2
   3) Configure private IP addresses (MultiPrivNIC Configuration) 
   - For Oracle RAC prior to 11.2.0.2
   4) Exit SF Oracle RAC Configuration
   b) Back to previous menu
   Choose option: [1-3,b,q] (1) 2

   The installer discovers available LLT links and PrivNIC resources.

   If PrivNIC resources exist, you can choose to delete and reconfigure the resources using the installer.

   Note:

   The installer only removes the corresponding PrivNIC resources from the configuration file. You must manually disassociate the IP addresses from the corresponding network interfaces and remove the IP addresses from the /etc/hosts file.

3. Enter the name for the PrivNIC resource.

   Enter the PrivNIC resource name: [b] (ora_priv)

4. Enter y to modify the priority of the PrivNIC interfaces.

   Note:

   The priority you set determines the interface that the PrivNIC agent chooses during failover.

   Do you want to update the priority of the PrivNIC 
   interfaces? [y,n,q] (n) y

5. Set the interface priority in decreasing order. The PrivNIC agent will assign the highest priority to the first interface specified in the list.

   Enter the interface name in the decreasing priority order, 
   separated by a space: [b] (net2 net3) net3 net2

6. • Enter y to add the IP addresses to the /etc/hosts file.

     Do you want the Installer to add IP addresses in /etc/hosts 
     and /etc/inet/ipnodes files? [y,n,q] (y)

     Note:

     The /etc/inet/ipnodes file is used only for IPv6 address updates. Ignore the reference to the /etc/inet/ipnodes file in the prompt as this release does not support IPv6 addresses.

   • Enter n if you choose to add the IP addresses to the file manually. Go to step 8.

7. Perform this step only if you enabled the installer to add the IP address to the /etc/hosts file in the previous step.

   Provide the private IP address and the private node name for the IP address that must be added to the file.

   Note:

   All IP addresses must be in the same subnet, failing which Oracle Clusterware/Grid Infrastructure will not be able to communicate properly across the nodes.

   If the private IP address entries are already present in the /etc/hosts file on one of nodes in the cluster, the installer does not update the file with the specified IP addresses on any of the nodes in the cluster.

   Enter the private IP for sys1: [b] 192.168.12.1
   Enter Hostname alias for the above IP address: [b] sys1-priv
   Enter the private IP for sys2: [b] 192.168.12.2
   Enter Hostname alias for the above IP address: [b] sys2-priv

   Go to step 9.

8. Perform this step only if you have chosen to add the IP address to the /etc/hosts file manually.

   Enter the private IP address information.

   Enter the private IP for sys1: [b] 192.168.12.1
   Enter the private IP for sys2: [b] 192.168.12.2

9. Enter the netmask information for the private network:

   Enter the Netmask for private network: [b] (255.255.255.0)

   The SF Oracle RAC installer now displays the configuration information.

10. Enter y to review and confirm the configuration information. The installer adds the PrivNIC resources to the VCS configuration and updates the /etc/hosts file (if you chose an installer-based update).
11. If you chose to add the IP address information to the /etc/hosts file manually, proceed to update the file as described in the following procedure.

12. Verify the PrivNIC configuration updates made by the program in the main.cf file.

    See Verifying the VCS configuration for PrivNIC and MultiPrivNIC.