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RAC General Administration

RAC General Administration

 

Managing the Cluster

starting /etc/init.d/init.crs start

crsctl start crs

stopping /etc/init.d/init.crs stop

crsctl stop crs

enable/disable at boot time /etc/init.d/init.crs enable
/etc/init.d/init.crs disable

crsctl enable crs
crsctl disable crs

Managing the database configuration with SRVCTL

start all instances srvctl start database -d <database> -o <option>

Note: starts listeners if not already running, you can use the -o option to specify startup/shutdown options

force
open
mount
nomount

stop all instances srvctl stop database -d <database> -o <option>

Note: the listeners are not stopped, you can use the -o option to specify startup/shutdown options

immediate
abort
normal
transactional

start/stop particular instance srvctl [start|stop] database -d <database> -i <instance>,<instance>
display the registered databases srvctl config database
status srvctl status database -d <database>
srvctl status instance -d <database> -i <instance>,<instance>
srvctl status service -d <database>
srvctl status nodeapps -n <node>
srvctl status asm -n <node>
stopping/starting srvctl stop database -d <database>
srvctl stop instance -d <database> -i <instance>,<instance>
srvctl stop service -d <database> -s <service>,<service> -i <instance>,<instance>
srvctl stop nodeapps -n <node>
srvctl stop asm -n <node>

srvctl start database -d <database>
srvctl start instance -d <database> -i <instance>,<instance>
srvctl start service -d <database> -s <service>,<service> -i <instance>,<instance>
srvctl start nodeapps -n <node>
srvctl start asm -n <node>

adding/removing srvctl add database -d <database> -o <oracle_home>
srvctl add instance -d <database> -i <instance> -n <node>
srvctl add service -d <database> -s <service> -r <preferred_list>
srvctl add nodeapps -n <node> -o <oracle_home> -A <name|ip>/network
srvctl add asm -n <node> -i <asm_instance> -o <oracle_home>

srvctl remove database -d <database> -o <oracle_home>
srvctl remove instance -d <database> -i <instance> -n <node>
srvctl remove service -d <database> -s <service> -r <preferred_list>
srvctl remove nodeapps -n <node> -o <oracle_home> -A <name|ip>/network
srvctl asm remove -n <node>

OCR utilities

log file $ORA_HOME/log/<hostname>/client/ocrconfig_<pid>.log
checking ocrcheck

Note: will return the OCR version, total space allocated, space used, free space, location of each device and the result of the integrity check

dump contents ocrdump -backupfile <file>

Note: by default it dumps the contents into a file named OCRDUMP in the current directory

export/import ocrconfig -export <file>

ocrconfig -restore <file>

backup/restore # show backups
ocrconfig -showbackup

# to change the location of the backup, you can even specify a ASM disk
ocrconfig -backuploc <path|+asm>

# perform a backup, will use the location specified by the -backuploc location
ocrconfig -manualbackup

# perform a restore
ocrconfig -restore <file>

# delete a backup
orcconfig -delete <file>

Note: there are many more option so see the ocrconfig man page

add/remove/replace ## add/relocate the ocrmirror file to the specified location
ocrconfig -replace ocrmirror ‘/ocfs2/ocr2.dbf’

## relocate an existing OCR file
ocrconfig -replace ocr ‘/ocfs1/ocr_new.dbf’

## remove the OCR or OCRMirror file
ocrconfig -replace ocr
ocrconfig -replace ocrmirror

 

 

 

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