Playing with oracleasm and ASMLib
Forgot about script I wrote some time ago: Be Friend With awk/sed | ASM Mapping [root@racnode-dc1-1 ~]# cat /sf_working/scripts/asm_mapping.sh #!/bin/sh -e for disk in `/etc/init.d/oracleasm listdisks`...
View ArticlePlaying with ACFS
Kernel version is 4.1.12-94.3.9.el7uek.x86_64 vs ACFS-9325: Driver OS kernel version = 4.1.12-32.el7uek.x86_64 because kernel was upgraded and ACFS has not been reconfigured after kernel upgrade....
View ArticleCheck 18c Upgrade Results – The cluster upgrade state is [UPGRADE FINAL]
After upgrade and apply RU for Grid 18c, the cluster upgrade state was not NORMAL. The cluster upgrade state is [UPGRADE FINAL] which I have never seen before. Searching Oracle Support was useless as I...
View ArticleCreate Linux Swap File
Currently I am using oravirt (Mikael Sandström) · GitHub (https://github.com/oravirt) vagrant boxes. The swap is too small, wanted to increase for 18c upgrade test, tired of doing this manually, and...
View ArticleUpdate Override OPatch
Framework to source GI/DB RAC environment stored on shared volume. [oracle@racnode-dc1-2 patch]$ df -h |grep patch media_patch 3.7T 442G 3.3T 12% /media/patch [oracle@racnode-dc1-2 patch]$ ps -ef|grep...
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18c Upgrade Getting to Results – The cluster upgrade state is [NORMAL]
There are/were a lot of discussions about Check 18c Upgrade Results – The cluster upgrade state is [UPGRADE FINAL] on how cluvfy stage -post crsinst -allnodes -collect cluster -gi_upgrade could have...
View Article18c Upgrade: Failed gridSetup.sh -executeConfigTools: Cluster upgrade state...
Check 18c Upgrade Results – The cluster upgrade state is [UPGRADE FINAL] 18c Upgrade Getting to Results – The cluster upgrade state is [NORMAL] This is a multi-part series for 18c Upgrade and suggest...
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Final Conclusion for 18c Cluster upgrade state is [NORMAL]
Finally, I have reached a point that I can live with for Grid 18c upgrade because the process runs to completion without any error and intervention. Note that ACFS Volume is created in CRS DiskGroup...
View ArticleSolving DBFS UnMounting Issue
Often, I am quite baffle with Oracle’s implementations and documentations. RAC GoldenGate DBFS implementation has been a nightmare and here is one example DBFS Nightmare I am about to show you another....
View ArticleSimplest Automation: Source RAC GI/DB Environment
The conundrum I am facing is whether or not to prepend or append db_name for it’s specific environment. For example, if db_name is hawk, then hawkprod, hawkqa, hawkdev, etc… If the hosts have the...
View ArticleFirst Time Learning Screen
So there I was, learning screen for the first time and was not liking the inability to scroll within screen session. After a lot of googling, I believe to have found the solution as shown in .screenrc...
View ArticleVitualBox Cannot register the hard disk because a hard disk with UUID already...
Here’s an issue I have faced multiple times and have finally able to find a reasonable resolution. For the moment, it seems to be working and only time will tell as other predominant solutions on WWW...
View ArticleGRID Out Of Place (OOP) Rollback Disaster
Now I understand the hesitation to use Oracle new features, especially any auto. It may just be simpler and less stress to perform manual task having control and knowing what is being executed and...
View ArticleUpdating vagrant-boxes/OracleRAC
I have been playing with and finally able to complete 18c RAC installation using oracle/vagrant-boxes/OracleRAC Honestly, I am still fond of Mikael Sandström oravirt vagrant-boxes, but having some...
View ArticleWhat’s My Cluster Configuration
[grid@ol7-183-node1 ~]$ . /media/patch/gi.env The Oracle base has been set to /u01/app/grid ORACLE_SID=+ASM1 ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/grid GRID_HOME=/u01/app/18.0.0.0/grid...
View ArticleNotes: Troubleshooting GRID opatchauto and Sample GRID OOP Log
Troubleshooting opatchauto Issues in Grid Infrastructure Environment (Doc ID 2467266.1) Failure during prepatch execution If any failure in pre-patch step, verify the logs under <oracle...
View ArticleRemove GRID Home After Upgrade
The environment started with a GRID 12.1.0.1 installation, upgraded to 18.3.0.0, and performed out-of-place patching (OOP) to 18.6.0.0. As a result, there are three GRID homes and remove 12.1.0.1. This...
View ArticleCreate Mount Filesystem for Vagrant VirtualBox
Once again, I am using oravirt boxes. If you just want to create the machine, and not run the provisioning step run this: vagrant up Since I don’t know ansible, it was much simpler to do the work...
View ArticleEM13.3 Directory Structures
Currently, I am preparing POC to migrate OMS 13.3 from OEL6 to OEL7 and wanted a high level overview of the installation. [oracle@MGOEM ~]$ cat .bash_profile # .bash_profile # Get the aliases and...
View ArticleShocking opatchauto resume works after auto-logout
WARNING: Please don’t try this at home or in production environment. With that being said, patching was for DR production. Oracle Interim Patch Installer version 12.2.0.1.16 Patching 2 nodes RAC...
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