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You can find below various commands which can be used to administer Oracle Clusterware using crsctl. This is for purpose of easy reference.

Start Oracle Clusterware

#crsctl start crs

Stop Oracle Clusterware

#crsctl stop crs

Enable Oracle Clusterware

#crsctl enable crs

It enables automatic startup of Clusterware daemons

Disable Oracle Clusterware

#crsctl disable crs

It disables automatic startup of Clusterware daemons. This is useful when you are performing some
operations like OS patching and does not want clusterware to start the daemons automatically.

Checking Voting disk Location

$crsctl query css votedisk

0. 0 /dev/sda3
1. 0 /dev/sda5
2. 0 /dev/sda6
Located 3 voting disk(s).

Note: -Any command which just needs to query information can be run using oracle user. But anything which alters Oracle Clusterware requires root privileges.

Add Voting disk

#crsctl add css votedisk path

Remove Voting disk

#crsctl delete css votedisk path

Check CRS Status

$crsctl check crs

Cluster Synchronization Services appears healthy

Cluster Ready Services appears healthy

Event Manager appears healthy

You can also see particular daemon status

$crsctl check cssd

Cluster Synchronization Services appears healthy

$crsctl check crsd

Cluster Ready Services appears healthy

$crsctl check evmd

Event Manager appears healthy

You can also check Clusterware status on both the nodes using

$crsctl check cluster

prod01 ONLINE

prod02 ONLINE

Checking Oracle Clusterware Version

To determine software version (binary version of the software on a particular cluster node) use

$crsctl query crs softwareversion

Oracle Clusterware version on node [prod01] is [11.1.0.6.0]

For checking active version on cluster, use

$ crsctl query crs activeversion

Oracle Clusterware active version on the cluster is [11.1.0.6.0]

As per documentation, multiple versions are used while upgrading.

There are other options for CRSCTL too which can be seen using

$crsctl

Or

$crsctl help

11.2 Reference

11.2 introduced few changes to crsctl usage. Most important is clusterized commands which allows you to perform remote operations. They are

• crsctl check cluster
• crsctl start cluster
• crsctl stop cluster

All these commands allow following usage

Default Stop local server
-all Stop all servers
-n Stop named servers
server [...] One or more blank-separated server names
-f Force option

Let’s see usage

% crsctl check cluster -all
**************************************************************
prod01:
CRS-4537: Cluster Ready Services is online
CRS-4529: Cluster Synchronization Services is online
CRS-4533: Event Manager is online
**************************************************************
prod02:
CRS-4537: Cluster Ready Services is online
CRS-4529: Cluster Synchronization Services is online
CRS-4533: Event Manager is online
**************************************************************

crsctl pin css is used to associate node name with node number. i.e if olsnodes shows prod01 as 1, then it should persist. This is helpful if you intend to run pre 11.2 database

#crsctl pin css -n prod01
#crsctl pin css -n prod02

To check daemon status, following commands need to be used

Check crsd – crsctl check crs

Check cssd – crsctl check crs

check evmd – crsctl check evm

crs_unregister is replaced by crsctl delete resource <resource_name>

crs_stat has been deprecated (though still works) and you need to use

$crsctl stat res -t
e.g

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
NAME           TARGET  STATE        SERVER                   STATE_DETAILS
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Local Resources
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ora.DATA.dg
               ONLINE  ONLINE       prod01
               ONLINE  ONLINE       prod02
ora.FLASH.dg
               ONLINE  ONLINE       prod01
               ONLINE  ONLINE       prod02
ora.LISTENER.lsnr
               ONLINE  ONLINE       prod01
               ONLINE  ONLINE       prod02
ora.asm
               ONLINE  ONLINE       prod01               Started
               ONLINE  ONLINE       prod02               Started
ora.gsd
               OFFLINE OFFLINE      prod01
               OFFLINE OFFLINE      prod02
ora.net1.network
               ONLINE  ONLINE       prod01
               ONLINE  ONLINE       prod02
ora.ons
               ONLINE  ONLINE       prod01
               ONLINE  ONLINE       prod02
ora.registry.acfs
               ONLINE  ONLINE       prod01
               ONLINE  ONLINE       prod02
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Cluster Resources
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ora.LISTENER_SCAN1.lsnr
      1        ONLINE  ONLINE       prod01
ora.cvu
      1        ONLINE  ONLINE       prod01
ora.oc4j
      1        ONLINE  ONLINE       prod01
ora.prod01.vip
      1        ONLINE  ONLINE       prod01
ora.prod02.vip
      1        ONLINE  ONLINE       prod02
ora.scan1.vip
      1        ONLINE  ONLINE       prod01
ora.tintin.db
      1        ONLINE  ONLINE       prod01               Open
      2        ONLINE  ONLINE       prod02               Open