Oracle Corporation
Method and system for a speed-up cluster reconfiguration time via a generic fast self node death detection

Abstract:

Described is a system, method, and computer program product for identifying communication failures between nodes of database cluster system where each member node within the cluster constantly monitors itself. Upon detection of a node communication failure by a particular node, the particular node notifies other member nodes of the cluster that the particular node is having communication problems with other nodes of the database cluster by communicating through a different communication channel with the other nodes so that the particular node may be evicted from the cluster efficiently.