Monthly Archives: October 2009

New public oracle yum server

I just found a new public yum server hosted by oracle. This server can be used to install missing packages over the internet. It does not contain any security updates or bug fixes. The public yum server can be found … Continue reading

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Configuring a small DNS server for SCAN

A few users asked what to do if there is no DNS server available for configuring the SCAN names when installing oracle grid infrastructure. Most asked if they can use hosts file entries. The short answer is: Nope. The grid … Continue reading

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ASM resilvering – or – how to recover your crashed cluster – Test no 4

Test #4: Corrupting the ASM disk with ASM disk group being online and active After overwriting the ASM disk header while the disk group was offline we will now put some load on the full running cluster and corrupt the … Continue reading

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The Oracle Database File System (DBFS)

The following post is a summary of my tests with DBFS on a 11g Release 2 RAC. DBFS – An Overview Since the introduction of LOBs the database was used to store all kinds of files, for instance images, audio … Continue reading

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ORA-12157 TNS:internal network communication error when connecting after fresh installation

Recently i came across a problem i thought was fixed since 10g: After a fresh installation of oracle 10g when trying to connect to the instance (for instance to create the database for the first time) you get the following … Continue reading

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ASM resilvering – or – how to recover your crashed cluster – Test no 3

Test #3: Overwriting the ASM disk header with ASM disk group being offline In this post we will dig a little bit deeper with ASM. We will overwrite the ASM disk header on one disk while the disk group is … Continue reading

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Useful ASM scripts and queries

This short post covers some useful ASM queries and scripts. chk_asm_mapping.sh The following is a script i found somewhere on the web. Unfortunately it was not totally correct for newer asm libraries. The script itself: /etc/init.d/oracleasm querydisk -d `/etc/init.d/oracleasm listdisks … Continue reading

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ASM resilvering – or – how to recover your crashed cluster – Test no 2

In this post we will terminating the private network interconnect between the two nodes by moving node “rac1” lan interfaces to a different vlan. This will result in still connected network ports but interrupted connectivity.

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Oracle 11g Release 2 – AWR emergency purging

During the night my SYSAUX tablespace filled up to the maximum allowed size so AWR could not save it´s data. In the database alert.log i found the following: Tue Oct 06 02:02:38 2009 ORA-1688: unable to extend table SYS.WRH$_ACTIVE_SESSION_HISTORY partition … Continue reading

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ASM resilvering – or – how to recover your crashed cluster – Test no 1

In the first test we will just disable one node under normal load. Lets see what the different components (clusterware, asm instance, advm/acfs) report:

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