Original Post can be viewed at 11gR2:Listener Startup Issues

In this blog post I will be discussing listener startup issues faced in 11gR2 RAC. I will be constantly updating this post based on my experiences or any comments on this blog post. Let’s get started.You will experience following errors while starting listener using srvctl [oracle@prod01]~% srvctl start listener -n prod01 PRCR-1013 : Failed to [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at Changing CRS/Database timezone in 11.2.0.2 post install

I had installed a 11.2.0.2 RAC setup few days back with incorrect timezone. It had to be PDT but I installed with UTC. Starting/stopping clusteware with correct timezone didn’t solve the issue. In 11.2.0.2 Oracle stores timezone information in file $GRID_HOME/crs/install/s_config_(hostname).txt. In my case file looked like this cd /oragrid/product/11.2/crs/install cat s_crsconfig_prod1.txt <strong>TZ=UTC</strong> NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.AL32UTF8 TNS_ADMIN= [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at Oracle Database Appliance Introduced

Oracle has introduced it new product: ODA (Oracle Database Appliance) I was not able to join Oracle President Mark Hurd’s webcast where he supposed to announce a new Oracle product[It was at 1AM my time and I was sleeping], now viewing this webcast HERE Kerry Osborne has shared information about this product, click link to [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at CRS-4640 Error on Starting 11gR2 clusterware

I was working on a issue where in Clusterware was not coming up as private interface was down. Following errors were recorded in ocssd.log which informed that issue was with private interface 2011-08-31 15:03:38.051: [ CSSD][1090451776]clssnmvDHBValidateNCopy: node 2, testrac2, has a disk HB, but no network HB, DHB has rcfg 205815745, wrtcnt, 4418998, LATS 4634324, [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at 11gR2:Enable and Disable Oracle Feature with Chopt

Oracle has introduced a utility called Chopt in 11gR2 to enable/disable few database features after database installation. To perform this, you need to shut down database and run the utilty present under $ORACLE_HOME/bin. Find below list of options allowed Value Description dm Oracle Data Mining Database Files dv Oracle Database Vault lbac Oracle Label Security [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at In-Place Upgrade 11gR2 RAC : 11.2.0.1 To 11.2.0.2

Sharing a post from my friend “Carthik” on 11gR2 RAC in-place upgrade. Overview ======== Starting oracle 11gR2 the Oracle database and Clusterware upgrades are done via the “Out of place upgrade”. And is the easier way to perform your upgrade.  However, the intent of this blog is to explain how an “In-Place upgrade” of a [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at BUG:10082277: Database Connections failing with ORA-4031

A short write-up on a problem faced in few newly upgraded databases to 11.2.0.1 : I faced this issue in couple of databases which were recently upgraded to 11gR2, the problem is so severe that even connecting using “/ as sysdba”  is not working and erroring out with <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">ORA-04031: unable to [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at BUG: Creating 11gR2 RAC Using VMware On Toshiba Laptop

I was setting up 11gR2 RAC grid infra on my new Toshiba L745 series laptop on OEL5.4, the installation was going very smoothly but suddenly the VMWare machines crashed while performing remote operations on second node with following message: <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">"vmxaiomgr.retrycontabort" Please disconnect and reconnect if the storage is external to comupter</span> The next [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at ORA-00132 while starting 11gR2 database

Short post on a error which can take lot of time to debug. You have upgraded a database and after restoring all files (init,tnsnames) try to startup 11g database and it fails with following error SQL> startup nomount ORA-00119: invalid specification for system parameter REMOTE_LISTENER ORA-00132: syntax error or unresolved network name 'scan-clu:1521' 11gR2 requires [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at Adding a reinstalled/reimaged node back to 11gR2 Cluster

There could be a scenario of node crash due to OS/hardware issues and a reinstall/reimage of the same. In such cases, just a normal node addition would not  help since the OCR still contain the references of original node. We need to remove them first and then perform a node addition. Have tried to document [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at October 2010 Blogroll Report

It’s been time since we saw log-buffer edition with last being published on 1st October 2010 and  Coskan’s weekly blogroll report I found them really useful to read top blog articles for week. So I decided to tag few articles posted in October 2010 which I  had read and found useful. I am subscribed to [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at Steps to Upgrade 11.2.0.1 RAC to 11.2.0.2

This post is in continuation to Grid Infrastructure upgrade post written earlier. Ensure that you have downloaded the software and  have upgraded the infrastructure database. Following files contain database software for 11.2.0.2. p10098816_112020_Linux-x86-64_1of7.zip p10098816_112020_Linux-x86-64_2of7.zip Please note that this is full release , so if you are installing new software, you can directly install 11.2.0.2 without [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at Upgrading Grid Infrastructure 11.2.0.1 to 11.2.0.2 on RHEL4

11.2.0.2 Patchset was released few days back. I decided to upgrade a test RAC database to 11.2.0.2 yesterday and was able to do it successfully. I will be documenting the steps here for easy reference Environment Details 2 node RAC on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 8), 64 bit To upgrade [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at Renaming Diskgroup containing Voting Disk and OCR

Recently encountered a issue where we had to rename a diskgroup for 11.2 RAC containing OCR and Voting Disk.At this moment we had not created database . I had done similar activity on 11.2 Single instance having database files (see this post) using renamedg. Therefore we tried using same approach to do this activity. Pre-requisite [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at 11gR2: CVU needs SCAN Listeners’ Manual Startup During Grid-Infrastructure Configuration

During configuration phase of Grid Infrastructure for cluster, CVU failed while performing post-checks. Following message is displaced in the Installation Log file: <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Checking Single Client Access Name (SCAN)...</span></span> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">WARNING: <strong>PRVF-5056</strong> : Scan Listener "LISTENER" not running</span></span> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Checking name resolution setup for "scan-test.abc.com"...</span></span> <span [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at 11gR2: Steps to Rename ASM Diskgroup with DB files

11gR2 introduced renamedg utility to rename diskgroups. I would discuss renaming a diskgroup on a Standalone Grid Infrastructure installation with Oracle Restart. Before you use the command, ensure that ASM diskgroup is dismounted. Below is syntax for the command. You can refer to 11gR2 docs for details renamedg [phase={ one|two |both } ] dgname=diskgroup newdgname=newdiskgroup [config=configfile] [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at 11gR2 – SysAsm vs SysDba

SYSASM role was introduced in 11gR1 and was designed to administer ASM instances. In 11gR1 , if you connected with SYSDBA role , you used to get a warning which was only recorded in alert log (Refer to my earlier post here). But things have changed in 11gR2. While trying to dismount a Diskgroup, I [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at Link:11gR2 RAC installation steps on OEL4

If you are looking for steps for 11gR2 RAC installation, you can refer to this article by Rajeev Ramdas at Dbastreet.com. Article lists down steps for installing 11gR2 RAC on 64 bit Oracle Enterprise Linux 4 (OEL4) using ASM for storage. As Raw devices are no longer supported, OCR and Voting Disks are also stored [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at 11gR2: Monitoring Real Time SQL Plan Execution from Oracle Enterprise Manager

Ever since 11gR2 has been released, it has created a lot of buzz in Oracle Blogosphere with various posts on 11g Release 2 (11gR2 ) New Features primarily ASM New features. I would like to introduce you all to a feature which has been incorporated in 11gR2 Oracle Enterprise Manager to display Real-Time SQL Monitoring information . [...]

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Original Post can be viewed at Get Upgrading: Steps To Upgrade To 11gR2

As 11gR2 is out for Linux, I decided to upgrade one of my existing 10.2.0.3 database to 11.2.0.1 to get the look and feel of 11gR2. Direct upgrade to 11gR2 is supported from 9.2.0.8 or higher, 10.1.0.5 or higher, 10.2.0.2 or higher and 11.1.0.6 or higher. If you have a database 9.2.0.6 then first you [...]

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