OS-Upgrade/-Patching of an Oracle Cluster
Patching the operating system of your database servers should be regular task of your system administrators. Security issues need to be fixed etc. In the context of database servers, especially database servers running oracle Grid Infrastructure, additional should be considered after patching or upgrading the operating system.
Oracle Grid Infrastructure: change the interval for the Cluster Verification Utility (ora.cvu)
Since Oracle 11.2.02. Oracle has integrated the Cluster Verification Utility (CVU) as a cluster resource. It‘s invoked every 6 hours and checks the health of your cluster. If you think, this is too often, you can change the interval. I‘ll show you how. Let‘s take a look at our cluster first: 1 2 3 4…