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  Adding a Standby Component (Hot Standby) 

You want to add a standby component to a hot standby system.

No savepoints can be written while a new standby component is being set up.

You require a suitable memory management system and a cluster solution. For information about setting up the memory management system and the cluster configuration, see the documentation of your vendor.

Prerequisites

·        You have already set up the master component of the hot standby system.

·        The master and standby components use the same hardware platforms (memory size, type and number of processors).

·        All data paths and files (such as the run directory, volumes, and trace files) used in the configuration are the same for the master and standby components.

·        The same version of the database software is installed on all computers.

·        All these computers are running.

·        The X Server is running on all computers.

·        The user who is setting up the hot standby system has administration rights on all computers.

Procedure

In the Database Manager GUI, choose Instance ®Configuration ®Hot Standby.

Choose Next to start each of the required steps.

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       1.      Choose Add or Remove Standby Instances.

       2.      Choose Add Standby Instance. Enter the following information:

Node

Name of the standby computer

Login Name

Operating system user on the standby computer

Password

Password of the operating system user on the standby computer

Installation

Installation path of the database software on the standby computer

Delay

Delay (in seconds) until the standby component redoes the changes in the master component

       3.      Choose Start.

You have added the standby component and transferred it to the STANDBY operational state.

See also:

Setting Up a Master Component (Hot Standby)

 

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