From: Bobby Bissett <bobby.bissett_at_oracle.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2010 12:05:29 -0400

> On 7/7/10 3:12 PM, Byron Nevins wrote:
>> GMS will handle updating the state of stand-alone instances?
>> Perfectly?
>
> That is my understanding. Joe / Bobby can confirm that

Kinda depends on your meaning of "perfectly." GMS listens for a
heartbeat signal, and you can configure the timing of the heartbeat (I
think the default is 2 seconds) and the number of heartbeats missed
(default=3) before it's suspected that an instance is unavailable.

Cheers,
Bobby