Manually switching over Oracle Clusterware-based configuration to the other node

In this recipe we will look at the steps/methods of relocating the GoldenGate resources to the other nodes of the cluster.

Getting ready

For this recipe we will refer to the setup performed in the Creating a highly available GoldenGate configuration using Oracle Clusterware and OCFS2 recipe.

How to do it...

In order to move the GoldenGate resources to the other node of the cluster, we need to move the underlying parent resource—GoldenGate Application VIP. This is done as follows:

  1. Check the status of the GoldenGate resources:
    crsctl status resource ggate_vip
    crsctl status resource ggate_mgr
  2. As Oracle user, run the following command to relocate the VIP resource:
    crsctl relocate ...

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