Well, there are missing details in your story. What was the application (Developer 6i
doesn't know how to failover, it fails all over the place, which is not the same thing).
Which verion of Oracle RDBMS are we talking about? Have listeners been cross-registered?
(local_listener parameter). Was the instance really down?

On 03/31/2004 01:26:26 PM, jaysingh1@(protected):
> Dear All,
>
> We tested failover functionality with "shutdown abort" or "shutdown immediate"
> and it works fine.

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Oracle DBA
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