Nice, that does the trick.
From a operational "scriptability" standpoint, would still be nice if
asadmin had an option to tell it to use that if the DAS is unreachable.
On 5/18/10 4:25 PM, "Byron Nevins" <byron.nevins_at_oracle.com> wrote:
> V2 should have a start script in the instance's bin directory
>
>
> On 5/18/2010 1:16 PM, Comerford, Sean wrote:
>> At least using 2.1 b60e, I don't know of any way to start an instance w/o
>> the DAS running.
>>
>> Start-instance yields " Unable to connect to admin-server at given host:
>> [vwtsas01] and port: [4848]. Please check if this server is up and running
>> and that the host and port provided are correct. CLI137 Command
>> start-instance failed."
>>
>> If there's an option to override, we'd love to know about it... or at least
>> see it added in the future :-)
>>
>> On 5/18/10 2:22 PM, "Bill Shannon"<bill.shannon_at_oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Comerford, Sean wrote on 05/18/10 05:49 AM:
>>>
>>>> You guys have probably heard this RFE before but Iıll reiterate it just
>>>> in case itıs something that can be fixed easily / hasnıt been already in
>>>> v3:
>>>>
>>>> There should be an option to start a clustered instance WITHOUT synching
>>>> with the DAS at all (i.e. Start and just use the last known configuration).
>>>>
>>>> Currently, if your DAS goes down, you canıt (re)start any instances
>>>> until itıs back up which could be very problematic in case of a
>>>> catastrophic failure to the DAS.
>>>>
>>> The intent is that, if the DAS is down when the instance starts up,
>>> the startup will continue with a warning. My understanding is that
>>> that's what v2 does, is that not the case?
>>>
>>> We haven't quite got to that point with v3, however...
>>>
>>> And, if the DAS later comes up, and it is discovered that the instance
>>> is out of sync with the DAS, the instance will need to be restarted.
>>> We'll probably need a policy flag to control whether the instance
>>> restarts automatically in this case or whether the administrator is
>>> informed that the instance needs to be restarted.
>>>
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