What's New For Oracle Fail Safe Release 3.3?

Oracle Fail Safe's rich features support easy, rapid deployment of a wide variety of highly available business solutions on Windows NT Enterprise Edition, Windows 2000 Advanced Server, or Windows 2000 Datacenter Server clusters. Oracle Fail Safe release 3.3, the latest release of Oracle Fail Safe, extends Oracle's industry-leading high-availability support on Windows clusters with the following new features:

• Updates to Oracle Fail Safe Manager:

  • Multicluster support

    Oracle Fail Safe Manager now allows you to add multiple clusters to the tree view. This means you can view and manage all your clusters from a single console. In previous releases, Oracle Fail Safe Manager could be used to view and manage only one cluster at a time. To manage multiple clusters you either had to disconnect from the current cluster and then connect to another cluster, or you had to open multiple Oracle Fail Safe Manager windows. The screen view shows a typical Oracle Fail Safe Manager tree view displaying information about two clusters, FS-150 and FS-240. The group FS-153, which contains all cluster resources associated with the Oracle9i database testdb1.us.oracle.com, is highlighted.

    
    
    

  • Merged with Oracle Real Application Clusters Guard Manager

    Oracle Fail Safe Manager and Oracle Real Application Clusters Guard Manager have been merged into a single manager. This means that you can view and manage from a single console any clusters that have Oracle Fail Safe or Oracle Real Applications Clusters Guard (or both) installed.

  • Oracle Fail Safe Manager release 3.3.1 can be used with any of the following Oracle Fail Safe and Oracle Real Application Clusters Guard releases:

    • Oracle Fail Safe release 3.3.1, 3.2.1, 3.1.2, 3.1.1

    • Oracle Real Application Clusters Guard release 3.3.1

  • Enhanced methods for changing the database password:

    • A new wizard, Update Database Password, has been added to Oracle Fail Safe Manager to assist you in changing the SYSDBA password for highly available databases. The wizard allows you to change the SYSDBA password for multiple databases concurrently and can be used on multiple clusters simultaneously.

    • The database Authentication tab in Oracle Fail Safe Manager has also been improved. In previous releases, if you wanted to change the SYSDBA password for a database, you had to use a tool other than Oracle Fail Safe. Then, you had to inform Oracle Fail Safe of the changed password by updating the information in the Authentication property page for the database. Changes entered in the Authentication tab now change the SYSDBA password stored in the database password file.

• Updates to Oracle Services for MSCS:

  • Support for Oracle Data Guard physical and logical standby configurations

    Oracle Fail Safe release 3.3 allows primary or standby databases in Oracle Data Guard configurations to be configured for high availability on Windows clusters. While Oracle Fail Safe provides high availability for Oracle databases, Oracle Data Guard provides disaster tolerance by maintaining copies of the primary database data at one or more physical or logical standby locations.

  • Support for Oracle9i release 9.2