Getting started

PowerHA® SystemMirror® Smart Assist for Oracle discovers pre-installed Oracle Application Servers and Oracle database instances. In addition, it helps you to integrate PowerHA SystemMirror and Oracle Application Server clusters to monitor the Oracle processes and ensure that the applications remain available.

However, it does not suggest the best high availability configuration for your environment. For information on choosing the optimum high availability configuration for your Oracle environment, see the Oracle documentation listed on the Oracle documentation Web site.

You must install the Oracle and PowerHA SystemMirror software, and create and configure Oracle Application Server and database instances on all nodes before running PowerHA SystemMirror Smart Assist for Oracle.

Oracle installations are required to be in the OFA (Optimal Flexible Architecture) form. If the Oracle installation is not in an OFA directory structure, the discovery component will not function properly.

PowerHA SystemMirror Smart Assist for Oracle supplements the Oracle Application Server Installation Guide.

To use PowerHA SystemMirror Smart Assist for Oracle, install the software listed in the section Software installation prerequisites in on all nodes in the Oracle-related resource groups (which may be a subset of all cluster nodes).