Preface

The Oracle Database Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide describes the Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) architectures and provides an overview of these products. This book also describes administrative and deployment topics for Oracle Clusterware and Oracle RAC.

Information in this manual applies to Oracle RAC as it runs on all platforms unless otherwise noted. In addition, the content of this manual supplements administrative and deployment topics for Oracle single-instance databases that appear in other Oracle documentation. Where necessary, this manual refers to platform-specific documentation. This Preface contains these topics:

• Audience

• Documentation Accessibility

• Related Documents

• Conventions

Audience

The Oracle Database Oracle Clusterware and Oracle Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide is intended for database administrators, network administrators, and system administrators who perform the following tasks:

• Install and configure Oracle RAC databases

• Administer and manage Oracle RAC databases

• Manage and troubleshoot clusters and networks that use Oracle RAC

To use this document, you should be familiar with the administrative procedures described in Oracle Database 2 Day DBA and the Oracle Database Administrator's Guide. You should also read Oracle Database Concepts to become familiar with Oracle database concepts. You should also be familiar with installing and configuring Oracle RAC as described in the platform-specific Oracle RAC installation guides.

Documentation Accessibility

Our goal is to make Oracle products, services, and supporting documentation accessible to all users, including users that are disabled. To that end, our documentation includes features that make information available to users of assistive technology. This documentation is available in HTML format, and contains markup to facilitate access by the disabled community. Accessibility standards will continue to evolve over time, and Oracle is actively engaged with other market-leading technology vendors to address technical obstacles so that our documentation can be accessible to all of our customers. For more information, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program Web site at http://www.oracle.com/accessibility/.

Accessibility of Code Examples in Documentation

Screen readers may not always correctly read the code examples in this document. The conventions for writing code require that closing braces should appear on an otherwise empty line; however, some screen readers may not always read a line of text that consists solely of a bracket or brace.

Accessibility of Links to External Web Sites in Documentation

This documentation may contain links to Web sites of other companies or organizations that Oracle does not own or control. Oracle neither evaluates nor makes any representations regarding the accessibility of these Web sites.

TTY Access to Oracle Support Services

To reach AT&T Customer Assistants, dial 711 or 1.800.855.2880. An AT&T Customer Assistant will relay information between the customer and Oracle Support Services at 1.800.223.1711. Complete instructions for using the AT&T relay services are available at http://www.consumer.att.com/relay/tty/standard2.html. After the AT&T Customer Assistant contacts Oracle Support Services, an Oracle Support Services engineer will handle technical issues and provide customer support according to the Oracle service request process.

Related Documents

For more information, refer to the Oracle resources listed in this section.

• Platform-specific Oracle Clusterware and Oracle RAC installation guides

• Oracle Database 2 Day DBA

• Oracle Database Administrator's Guide

• Oracle Database Net Services Administrator's Guide

• Oracle Database Platform Guide for Microsoft Windows (32-Bit)

• Oracle Database 10g Administrator's Reference Release 1 (10.2) for UNIX Systems: AIX-Based Systems, HP-UX, Tru64 UNIX, Linux, and the Solaris Operating System (SPARC)

Database error messages descriptions are available online or by way of a Tahiti documentation search. Oracle Clusterware messages and Oracle RAC-specific java tool messages appear in Appendix C and Appendix F of this document respectively.

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document: