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Networker: Fixing “NSR peer information” errors

October 21st, 2010 No comments

Just because i have to use google to find the solution often here the direct link for fixing nsr peer information error messages.

An example error message can be found below:

39078 19.10.2010 12:07:35  nsrexecd GSS error: There is already a machine using the
name: "clientname.domain.com". Either choose a different name for your machine, or
delete the "NSR peer information" entry for "clientname.domain.com" on
host: "networkerserver.domain.com"

Preston De Guise explained in his blog how to fix the error.

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Less known helpers: Linux sg3_utils

October 21st, 2010 No comments

The linux sg3_utils are small tools intended for working with FC / SCSI / SATA / SAS hard driv.es. They can be used to send SCSI commands (for instance INQUIRY, LOG SENSE, …) to these devices.

sg3_utils can be found on freshmeat.

An in-depth description can be found here.

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ASM witth Oracle 11g Release 2 – Best Practises revisited

October 20th, 2010 2 comments

Starting with 11g Release 2 it is possible to store voting disks and OCR in ASM. But how does this affect ASM best practises?

Martin Decker found the updated Oracle document about this issue.

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Using Large Pages for Oracle on Windows 64-bit (ORA_LPENABLE)

October 19th, 2010 No comments

For using Large Pages on Windows some settings are needed:

1.  Start > Settings > Control Panel
2.  click Administrative Tools.
3.  click Local Security Policy.
4.  Expand Local Policies and select User Rights Assignment.
5.  Select Lock pages in memory and choose Action > Security...
6.  Click Add...
7.  Select the username that was used to install Oracle and the ora_dba group from the Name list.
8.  Click Add.
9.  Close Select Users or Groups dialog by pressing OK
10. Click OK to close the Local Security Policy Setting dialog.
11. Open Regedit
12. Navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE\KEY_OraDb10g_home1
13. Create a registry key (REG_SZ) named ORA_LPENABLE  and set the value to 1
14. Reboot the server.
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How to determine FC HBA WWN on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5

October 18th, 2010 No comments

To determine the FC HBA WWN on Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) use:

cat /sys/class/fc_host/host<number>/port_name

For example:

[root@host sys]# cat /sys/class/fc_host/host6/port_name
0x2100001b329308df
[root@host sys]# cat /sys/class/fc_host/host5/port_name
0x2100001b329388d9
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EMC Networker: NDMP backups are failing after upgrading to 7.6.1

October 11th, 2010 No comments

After upgrade to EMC Networker 7.6.1 NDMP are failing with:

filer:/vol/vol0/etc 6899:nsrdsa_save: Warning: Could not determine job id. Continuing ...
filer:/vol/vol0/etc 39078:nsrdsa_save: SYSTEM error: Could not establish jobid with server.
filer:/vol/vol0/etc 39078:nsrdsa_save: DSA save time could not be retrieved, exiting

Thsi is a known bug in 7.6.1. The fix is available here:

http://solutions.emc.com/emcsolutionview.asp?id=esg116939

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Less know features: Alternate Archive Log Destination

October 5th, 2010 No comments

Oracle offers the ability to specify so called ‘alternative’ archive log destinations in case the primary archive log destination gets full. You can enable this feature by setting:

log_archive_dest_1='location=+FRA REOPEN=0 MANDATORY alternate=log_archive_dest_2'
log_archive_dest_2='location=/some_path MANDATORY'
log_archive_dest_state_1=ENABLE
log_archive_dest_state_2=ALTERNATE

A configuration often used involved using the flash recovery area as primary destination and a nfs destination as alternative archive log destination.

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Oracle 11.2.0.2.0 released

October 4th, 2010 No comments

Few weeks ago Oracle released the first patchset for 11g Release 2 database. This is a summaization of other blog posts regarding upgrading or installating 11.2.0.2.0.

At the moment (4th November 2011) 11.2.0.2.0 is available for the following platforms:

  • Linux 32-bit
  • Linux 64-bit
  • AIX 5 64-bit
  • Solaris SPARC 64-bit
  • Solaris Intel 64-bit

 

Upgrading

Upgrading Grid Infrastructure to 11.2.0.2.0 on RHEL 4

Upgrading RAC database to 11.2.0.2.0

Problems

Upgrade to 11.2.0.2.0 failed due to errors in HA IP stack

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Busy

October 4th, 2010 No comments

I am pretty busy the last weeks so i had no time for updates. I will have more time next week.

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