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rubyee_red
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oracle 10g and ASM

Hi there ,

We have installed oracle 10g using ASM(automated storage manager ) on Hpux 11i. ASM requires that we give ownership to the raw disk files to the oracle user. So I did a chown oracle on all the raw disk device files used for ASM. This worked fine for a while.

But the problem started when I added new SAN disks for ASM and kicked of an insf -eC disk on the server , when all the disk device files got regenerated and the raw disk files now got owned by bin:sys and due to this the database instance hangs , as oracle lost ownership to the /dev/rdsk/cxtxdx files.

I tried setting ACLS on the device files but the ACLS don't hold , when i regenerate disk device files.

Anbody have any suggestions or ideas ?

Thanks for ur help
Rubyee
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Alex Lavrov.
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Re: oracle 10g and ASM

Don't use "-e" option. It recreates ALL the files. Without it only new devices will be generated.

Alex.
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rubyee_red
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Re: oracle 10g and ASM

Thanks Alex ..u r right ..my bad.
Yogeeraj_1
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Re: oracle 10g and ASM

hi rubyee,

You may also use the ASM_DISKSTRING to limit what Oracle is allowed to see.

It is recommended to create soft links so that you can easily move the disk devices around more easily.

e.g.
mkdir /dev/asm
ln -s /dev/dsk/c1t1d0 /dev/asm/disk1
ln -s /dev/dsk/c1t1d1 /dev/asm/disk2
...

ASM_DISKSTRING=/dev/asm

I can't find the white paper which contains all the recommendation. If you have metalink access, please check for it.

hope this helps too!

kind regards
yogeera
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Jean-Luc Oudart
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Re: oracle 10g and ASM

Rubyee

the white papers for ASM can be found on OTN :
http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/asm/index.html

as mentioned, use asm_diskstring to limit the pool of disks available to ASM.

Regards
Jean-Luc
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