Oracle Tips by Burleson

Oracle10g Grid Computing with RAC
Chapter 8 - RAC Administration

Server Control Utility

• Sets and unsets the environment variable for an instance in a cluster database configuration.
   

• Sets and unsets the environment variable for an entire cluster in a cluster database configuration.

To manage the RAC environment, first you need to build a configuration profile and optionally save it. You can build the configuration by commands such as add and setenv. It is a good practice to build configuration profiles and export them to ASCII files.

SRVCTL syntax has the following components:

> srvctl verb noun options

Where:

srvctl is the SRVCTL command.

verb is an action word such as start, stop, or remove.

noun is an object upon which SRVCTL performs the action verb, such as a database or instance. Alternatively, you can use abbreviations, which in this case are db and inst respectively.

options extends the use of preceding verb-noun combinations.

To see the online command syntax and options for each SRVCTL command, enter:

> srvctl verb noun -h