Question to SunPlex HA Oracle Agent

Hi all,
we are about to deploy a new platform for productive Oracle databases. In future the databases will be run on Sun Solaris on top of clustered X86 machines. We now face the question of whether or not to make use of the "SunPlex HA Oracle Agent" as a control instance for the Oracle processes (listener, database, etc)
Is there anybody out there who already utilizes this technique?
Any experiences - dark sides?
Advantages - disadvanteges in contrast to script based control.
I appreciate any idea.
Regards,
Louis

You can't do it with the agent directly as it stands, as far as I can tell. However, you could do it indirectly by creating a pool and binding that pool to the FX scheduler. You then create a zone and bind the zone to the pool and put the HA Oracle instance in the zone If you do that on both nodes you achieve what you want (I think). I've never tried this, but it would appear to be feasible.
i.e. your RG list would be:
node1:zone1,node2:zone2
Regards,
Tim
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