OCR

OCFS2 Configuration Issue

While setting up ocfs2 for OCR and Voting disk storage with following commad:
# ocfs2console

After clicking on ==>cluster ==> configure nodes, I got a pop-up saying:

<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">"Could not start cluster stack. This must be resolved before any OCFS2 filesystem can be mounted."</span></span>

Soon I realized that the thing which takes few minutes to get installed, is going to give me a tough time.

/var/log/messages shows following details:

<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Aug 17 14:53:40 rac1 modprobe: FATAL: Module configfs not found.
Aug 17 14:55:23 rac1 modprobe: FATAL: Module configfs not found.
Aug 17 14:56:56 rac1 modprobe: FATAL: Module configfs not found.
</span></span>

This prevents the configuration of OCFS2’s cluster stack, but it is mandatory to have OCFS2 cluster stack “O2CB” running, before
we can start anything with OCFS2 filesystem.

The stack includes the following services:

<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">    * NM: Node Manager that keep track of all the nodes in the cluster.conf
    * HB: Heart beat service that issues up/down notifications when nodes join or leave the cluster
    * TCP: Handles communication between the nodes
    * DLM: Distributed lock manager that keeps track of all locks, its owners and status
    * CONFIGFS: User space driven configuration file system mounted at /config
    * DLMFS: User space interface to the kernel space DLM
</span></span>

Error : modprobe: FATAL: Module configfs not found” can occur because of following reasons:

1. SELINUX is enabled.
2. Mismatch between the Kernel and OCFS2 module.

1. To check for selinux:
# sestatus
Or
# vi /etc/sysconfig/selinux

Make sure that selinux is DISABLED here.

2. To check for Mismatch:
# uname -a (It will give the exact kernel version of the OS)
2.6.9-42.ELsmp
# rpm -qa |grep ocfs2 (It will tell us the ocfs2 package currently installed)
ocfs2-2.6.9-89.EL

Here it can be seen that ocfs2 is for kernel version 89 not for kernel version 42.

So I downloaded the correct OCFS2 kernel modules from:
http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/files/
and the tools from
http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2-tools/files/

After installing the correct module and disabling the selinux settings, I got the cluster stack running.


Creating Oracle Extended RAC on Oracle VM

Yesterday, I found one very useful article at OTN “Creating Oracle Extended RAC” on completely virtual environment using Oracle VM. As Virtualization is becoming popular day by day and is very cost effective, one must know how to use this to simulate actual environments. Click  here for details on Oracle Extended RAC on Oracle VM.

How To Recover From Corrupted OCR Disk

It is very common where a DBA is left with corrupted OCR disk without having any good backup.
The same situation was experienced by me few days back. One node of RAC database shows the following:

NODE1:

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>$ORA_CRS_HOME/bin/crs_stat -t
</strong>Name           Type           Target    State     Host
------------------------------------------------------------
ora.orcl.db    application    ONLINE    ONLINE    rac1
ora....11.inst application    ONLINE    ONLINE    rac1
ora....12.inst application    ONLINE    OFFLINE
ora....vice.cs application    OFFLINE   OFFLINE
ora....l11.srv application    ONLINE    OFFLINE
ora....l12.srv application    ONLINE    OFFLINE
ora....SM1.asm application    ONLINE    ONLINE    rac1
ora....DC.lsnr application    ONLINE    ONLINE    rac1
ora....abc.gsd application    ONLINE    ONLINE    rac1
ora....abc.ons application    ONLINE    ONLINE    rac1
ora....abc.vip application    ONLINE    ONLINE    rac1
ora....SM2.asm application    ONLINE    ONLINE    rac2
ora....C2.lsnr application    ONLINE    ONLINE    rac2
ora....bc2.gsd application    ONLINE    ONLINE    rac2
ora....bc2.ons application    ONLINE    ONLINE    rac2
ora....bc2.vip application    ONLINE    ONLINE    rac2</span>

The other node shows the following:
NODE2:

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>/crs_stat -t</strong>
HA Resource                                   Target     State
-----------                                   ------     -----
ora.orcl.db                                   OFFLINE    OFFLINE
ora.orcl.orcl11.inst                          OFFLINE    OFFLINE
ora.orcl.orcl12.inst                          OFFLINE    OFFLINE
ora.orcl.test_service.cs                      ONLINE     OFFLINE
ora.orcl.test_service.orcl11.srv              OFFLINE    OFFLINE
ora.orcl.test_service.orcl12.srv              OFFLINE    OFFLINE
ora.rac1 .ASM1.asm                         OFFLINE    OFFLINE
ora.rac1 .LISTENER_RAC1 .lsnr           OFFLINE    OFFLINE
ora.rac1 .gsd                              OFFLINE    OFFLINE
ora.rac1 .ons                              OFFLINE    OFFLINE
ora.rac1 .vip                              OFFLINE    OFFLINE
ora.rac2.ASM2.asm                        OFFLINE    OFFLINE
ora.rac2.LISTENER_RAC2 2.lsnr         ONLINE     OFFLINE
ora.rac2.gsd                             ONLINE     OFFLINE
ora.rac2.ons                             ONLINE     OFFLINE
ora.rac2.vip                             ONLINE     OFFLINE</span>

We can see the inconsistent data across two node RAC. Every command for srvctl, crsctl was hanging on NODE 2.
Now the option is to restore the OCR backup, but if there is no backup available for OCR then we can use the following procedure to recover from corrupted OCR disk
(There will be complete downtime needed to perform these operations)


1. Check the status of CRS from node 1:

# ps -eaf |grep d.bin
root 12873 1 0 Aug11 ? 00:11:07 /u01/app/crs/bin/crsd.bin reboot
oracle 13105 12846 0 Aug11 ? 00:00:45 /u01/app/crs/bin/evmd.bin
oracle 13226 13200 0 Aug11 ? 00:13:13 /u01/app/crs/bin/ocssd.bin
root 21458 19986 0 20:34 pts/4 00:00:00 grep d.bin

2. Shutdown Oracle ClusterWare on all nodes:

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[root@rac1  bin]# ./crsctl stop crs
Stopping resources.
Successfully stopped CRS resources
Stopping CSSD.
Shutting down CSS daemon.
Shutdown request successfully issued.</span>

Check the status again:

[root@rac1 bin]# ps -eaf |grep d.bin
root 21927 19986 0 20:34 pts/4 00:00:00 grep d.bin

It shows that the cluster is stopped.

3. Execute rootdelete.sh from all nodes.

It is under directory $ORA_CRS_HOME/install/rootdelete.sh

NODE1:

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[root@rac1  install]# <strong>./rootdelete.sh</strong>
Shutting down Oracle Cluster Ready Services (CRS):
Stopping resources.
Error while stopping resources. Possible cause: CRSD is down.
Stopping CSSD.
Unable to communicate with the CSS daemon.
Shutdown has begun. The daemons should exit soon.
Checking to see if Oracle CRS stack is down...
Oracle CRS stack is not running.
Oracle CRS stack is down now.
Removing script for Oracle Cluster Ready services
Updating ocr file for downgrade
Cleaning up SCR settings in '/etc/oracle/scls_scr'</span>

NODE 2:

./rootdelete.sh</strong>
Shutting down Oracle Cluster Ready Services (CRS):
OCR initialization failed accessing OCR device: PROC-26: Error while accessing the physical storage Operating System error [No such file or directory] [2]
Shutdown has begun. The daemons should exit soon.
Checking to see if Oracle CRS stack is down...
Oracle CRS stack is not running.
Oracle CRS stack is down now.
Removing script for Oracle Cluster Ready services
Updating ocr file for downgrade
Cleaning up SCR settings in '/etc/oracle/scls_scr'</span>

“OCR initialization failed accessing OCR device”, this error can occur due to folloing reasons:
1. ocrconfig_loc is not pointing to the correct ocr.
2. Problem of rights and owners on the ocr devices
3. Configuration problem on Oracle Cluster Synchronization Services

As the SCR entries are cleaned up so there is no need to worry about PROC-26 error.

If you have more than 2 nodes in a rac you need to run rootdelete.sh on all the other nodes also.

4. Run rootdeinstall.sh from the node where the RAC installation was done (usually it is the node1).
It will clear up the OCR disk contents.

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">./rootdeinstall.sh</span>

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Removing contents from OCR device
2560+0 records in
2560+0 records out</span>

5. Run root.sh from the same node:

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">./root.sh
WARNING: directory '/u01' is not owned by root
Checking to see if Oracle CRS stack is already configured</span>

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Setting the permissions on OCR backup directory
Setting up NS directories
Oracle Cluster Registry configuration upgraded successfully
WARNING: directory '/u01' is not owned by root
assigning default hostname rac1  for node 1.
assigning default hostname rac2 2 for node 2.
Successfully accumulated necessary OCR keys.
Using ports: CSS=49895 CRS=49896 EVMC=49898 and EVMR=49897.
node :</span>

node 1: rac1  rac1-priv rac1
node 2: rac2  rac2-priv rac2
Creating OCR keys for user 'root', privgrp 'root'..
Operation successful.
Now formatting voting device: /dev/raw/raw1
Format of 1 voting devices complete.
Startup will be queued to init within 90 seconds.
Adding daemons to inittab
Expecting the CRS daemons to be up within 600 seconds.
CSS is active on these nodes.
rac1
CSS is inactive on these nodes.
rac2 2
Local node checking complete.
Run root.sh on remaining nodes to start CRS daemons.

After its completion run root.sh on all remaining nodes.

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> ./root.sh
Checking to see if Oracle CRS stack is already configured</span>

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Setting the permissions on OCR backup directory
Setting up NS directories
Oracle Cluster Registry configuration upgraded successfully
clscfg: EXISTING configuration version 3 detected.
clscfg: version 3 is 10G Release 2.
assigning default hostname rac1  for node 1.
assigning default hostname rac2  for node 2.
Successfully accumulated necessary OCR keys.
Using ports: CSS=49895 CRS=49896 EVMC=49898 and EVMR=49897.
node :</span>

node 1: rac1  rac1-priv rac1
node 2: rac2  rac2-priv rac2
clscfg: Arguments check out successfully.

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">NO KEYS WERE WRITTEN. Supply -force parameter to override.
-force is destructive and will destroy any previous cluster
configuration.
Oracle Cluster Registry for cluster has already been initialized
Startup will be queued to init within 90 seconds.
Adding daemons to inittab
Expecting the CRS daemons to be up within 600 seconds.
CSS is active on these nodes.
rac1
rac2
CSS is active on all nodes.
Oracle CRS stack installed and running under init(1M)
Running vipca(silent) for configuring nodeapps
The given interface(s), "eth0" is not public. Public interfaces should be used to configure virtual IPs.</span>

The silent mode VIPCA configuration will fail because of BUG 4437727 in 10.2.0.1. To solve this run the
VIPCA manually from root user from last node where this error has occured and follow the instructions.
# $ORA_CRS_HOME/bin/vipca

6. Now final step is to add the resources back to OCR with srvctl command.

Adding DATABASE to OCR:

$srvctl add database -d db_unique_name -o oracle_home
[oracle@rac1 ~]$ $ORA_CRS_HOME/bin/srvctl add database -d orcl -o /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1</span>

Adding INSTANCE to OCR:

srvctl add instance -d db_unique_name -i inst_name -n node_name
[oracle@rac1 ~]$ $ORA_CRS_HOME/bin/srvctl add instance -d orcl -i orcl11 -n rac1
[oracle@rac1 ~]$ $ORA_CRS_HOME/bin/srvctl add instance -d orcl -i orcl12 -n rac2 2</span>

Adding SERVICES to OCR:

$srvctl add service -d db_unique_name -s service_name -r preferred_list
[oracle@rac1  ~]$ $ORA_CRS_HOME/bin/srvctl add service -d orcl -s test_service -r orcl11,orcl12</span>

Adding NODEAPPS to OCR:

srvctl add nodeapps -n node_name -o oracle_home -A addr_str
Where addr_str= The node level VIP address
This command needs to be run from ROOT user otherwise you will get following error:

<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[oracle@rac1  ~]$  $ORA_CRS_HOME/bin/srvctl add nodeapps -n rac1  -o /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1 -A 10.167.21.89/255.255.255.0
PRKO-2117 : This command should be executed as the system privilege user.
[oracle@rac1  ~]$
[oracle@rac1  ~]$ su -
Password:
[root@rac1  ~]# cd /u01/app/crs/bin
[root@rac1  bin]# ./srvctl add nodeapps -n rac1  -o /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1 -A 10.167.21.87/255.255.255.0
[root@rac1  bin]#./srvctl add nodeapps -n rac2 2  -o /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1 -A 10.167.21.89/255.255.255.0</span>

This will complete the OCR recreation, now you can test the status with cluvfy.