Windows special note – RAC with Dbvisit Standby installation
- KrupeshD (Deactivated)
- Arjen Visser
Dbvisit Standby for Windows includes the Bitvise SSH environment with public and private keys. In order to configure this successfully for RAC to ensure all servers in the configuration can communicate to each other, please follow these steps:
Assuming RAC has 2 nodes: NodeA and NodeB:
1. Install Dbvisit Standby on NodeA as per normal installation including installing the Bitvise software and configuring SSH2.
2. Install Dbvisit Standby on the standby server as per normal installation including installing the Bitvise software and configuring SSH2.
3. Install Dbvisit Standby on NodeB as per installation including installing the Bitvise software and configuring SSH2.
4. Do not install Dbvisit Standby on same standby server (as in point 2 above) again, even though the Dbvisit Standby installer instructs to install Dbvisit Standby on the standby server.
5. Copy all the keys from the ssh2 directory on NodeA to the same location on NodeB. This overwrites all the ssh2 keys from NodeB with the keys from NodeA.
6. Start the Dbvisit Standby console on NodeB. Type in the command:
dbv_functions -Y primary setupssh
7. This loads NodeB with the new ssh keys. NodeA and NodeB now have the same ssh keys, so that they can both make contact with the standby server. This also ensures that when the servers are reversed the process will continue ccessfully.