Hi DBAs,
It is long time I didn't wrote and share my knowledge with you all,so thought of sharing some interesting interview question.I'm sure it will help everyone.
Q 1)How to get the list of patches applied to database if lsinventory is corrupted?
Ans: we have folder under $ORACLE_HOME called db_storage,we can do 'ls' to get the list of patches if our inventory is corrupted.(In case of windows you can just view by going to that path).
Note: we always have to backup the oracle home and inventory to be on safe side.
Below command will help you on it.
tar cvf – $ORACLE_HOME $ORACLE_HOME/oraInventory | gzip > Backup_Software_Version.tar.gz
I find the below link useful one:
http://avdeo.com/2008/08/19/
Q 2)If we want CRS(Cluster Ready Service) services to not get detected,what we should do?
Ans: $crsctl disable crs
Q 3)How to list the nodes in your cluster by running the following command on one node?
Ans: We can list the nodes in our cluster by running the following command on one node:
$ olsnodes
Q 4) How to schedule a existing concurrent request to run on specific day,all the times?
Ans : Let us say i have a gather stats concurrent request for a schema and I will it to run every weekend once(i.e every sunday),I can do it by following simple steps:
Step 1:Open the Cocurrent request in form window by specifying the specific request id(eg 4126398)
Step 2:Click on Detail Tab of the Concurrent request,we will be seeing schedule tab,click on it
Step 3:Schedule it on Sunday and Choose On specific days on the left side of the form page as shown in below screenshot
Q 5)How to recover corrupt OCR without backup?
Ans: We all know Oracle takes backups of OCR after every 4 hours,but what if we don't have backup and OCR is corrupted,we cannot go for installing whole clusterware which could be a lengthy process.
If we are on 10g R2 and later version then this can be done without re-installing Clusterware ( if you have backup of root.sh or it’s not overwritten by any
subsequent patch ) I tested this on my test machines.
We can get Current Voting Disk location
[root@racnode1 ~]# crsctl query css votedisk
0. 0 /OCFS/VOT
located 1 votedisk(s).
Current OCR Files location
[root@racnode1 ~]# ocrcheck
Status of Oracle Cluster Registry is as follows :
Version : 2
Total space (kbytes) : 262144
Used space (kbytes) : 4344
Available space (kbytes) : 257800
ID : 601339441
Device/File Name : /OCFS/OCR
Device/File integrity check succeeded
Device/File Name : /OCFS/OCR2
Device/File integrity check succeeded
Cluster registry integrity check succeeded
Output of CRS_STAT
[root@racnode1 ~]# crs_stat -t
Name Type Target State Host
————————————————————
ora….SM1.asm application ONLINE ONLINE racnode1
ora….C1.lsnr application ONLINE ONLINE racnode1
ora.racnode1.gsd application ONLINE ONLINE racnode1
ora.racnode1.ons application ONLINE ONLINE racnode1
ora.racnode1.vip application ONLINE ONLINE racnode1
ora….SM2.asm application ONLINE ONLINE racnode2
ora….C2.lsnr application ONLINE ONLINE racnode2
ora.racnode2.gsd application ONLINE ONLINE racnode2
ora.racnode2.ons application ONLINE ONLINE racnode2
ora.racnode2.vip application ONLINE ONLINE racnode2
ora.test.AP.cs application ONLINE ONLINE racnode1
ora….st1.srv application ONLINE ONLINE racnode1
ora.test.db application ONLINE ONLINE racnode2
ora….t1.inst application ONLINE ONLINE racnode1
ora….t2.inst application ONLINE ONLINE racnode2
I stopped clusterware on both nodes and removed OCR & Voting Disks.
[root@racnode1 ~]# ls -lrt /OCFS/*
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 399507456 Jun 29 14:05 /OCFS/OCR2
-rw-r—– 1 root oinstall 10485760 Jun 29 14:05 /OCFS/OCR
-rw-r–r– 1 oracle oinstall 10240000 Jun 29 14:05 /OCFS/VOT
[root@racnode1 ~]# rm -fr /OCFS/*
Tried again to start Cluster
[root@racnode1 ~]# crsctl start crs
Attempting to start CRS stack
The CRS stack will be started shortly
Clusterware could not startup.
[root@racnode1 ~]# crsctl check crs
Failure 1 contacting CSS daemon
Cannot communicate with CRS
Cannot communicate with EVM
Thrown error in /tmp/crsct.* file about OCR
[root@racnode1 ~]# cat /tmp/crsc*
OCR initialization failed accessing OCR device: PROC-26: Error while accessing the physical storage Operating System error [No such file or directory] [2]
OCR initialization failed accessing OCR device: PROC-26: Error while accessing the physical storage Operating System error [No such file or directory] [2]
OCR initialization failed accessing OCR device: PROC-26: Error while accessing the physical storage Operating System error [No such file or directory] [2]
Here, I lost all my OCR & Voting disk.
Below procedure can be used for recovery.
1) Execute rootdelete.sh script from All Nodes.
2) Execute rootdeinstall.sh from Primary Node.
3) Run root.sh from Primary node.
4) Run root.sh from all remaining nodes.
5) Execute remaining configurations (ONS,netca,register required resources)
1) Executing rootdelete.sh on all nodes, this script can be found under $ORA_CRS_HOME/install/
[root@racnode1 ~]# /u01/app/oracle/product/crs/install/rootdelete.sh
Shutting down Oracle Cluster Ready Services (CRS):
OCR initialization failed accessing OCR device: PROC-26: Error while accessing the physical storage Operating System error [No such file or directory] [2]
Shutdown has begun. The daemons should exit soon.
Checking to see if Oracle CRS stack is down…
Oracle CRS stack is not running.
Oracle CRS stack is down now.
Removing script for Oracle Cluster Ready services
Updating ocr file for downgrade
Cleaning up SCR settings in ‘/etc/oracle/scls_scr’
[root@racnode2 ~]# /u01/app/oracle/product/crs/install/rootdelete.sh
Shutting down Oracle Cluster Ready Services (CRS):
OCR initialization failed accessing OCR device: PROC-26: Error while accessing the physical storage Operating System error [No such file or directory] [2]
Shutdown has begun. The daemons should exit soon.
Checking to see if Oracle CRS stack is down…
Oracle CRS stack is not running.
Oracle CRS stack is down now.
Removing script for Oracle Cluster Ready services
Updating ocr file for downgrade
Cleaning up SCR settings in ‘/etc/oracle/scls_scr’
OCR initialization error can be safely ignored.
2) Execute rootdeinstall.sh on Primary Node, this script can also be found under $ORA_CRS_HOME/install
[root@racnode1 ~]# /u01/app/oracle/product/crs/install/rootdeinstall.sh
Removing contents from OCR mirror device
2560+0 records in
2560+0 records out
10485760 bytes (10 MB) copied, 0.031627 seconds, 332 MB/s
Removing contents from OCR device
2560+0 records in
2560+0 records out
10485760 bytes (10 MB) copied, 0.029947 seconds, 350 MB/s
3) Run root.sh on Primary node, this will create VOT & OCR files.
[root@racnode1 ~]# $ORA_CRS_HOME/root.sh
WARNING: directory ‘/u01/app/oracle/product’ is not owned by root
WARNING: directory ‘/u01/app/oracle’ is not owned by root
WARNING: directory ‘/u01/app’ is not owned by root
WARNING: directory ‘/u01′ is not owned by root
“/OCFS/VOT” does not exist. Create it before proceeding.
Make sure that this file is shared across cluster nodes.
1
I had to touch this file to proceed
[root@racnode1 ~]# touch /OCFS/VOT
[root@racnode1 ~]# $ORA_CRS_HOME/root.sh
WARNING: directory ‘/u01/app/oracle/product’ is not owned by root
WARNING: directory ‘/u01/app/oracle’ is not owned by root
WARNING: directory ‘/u01/app’ is not owned by root
WARNING: directory ‘/u01′ is not owned by root
Checking to see if Oracle CRS stack is already configured
Setting the permissions on OCR backup directory
Setting up NS directories
Oracle Cluster Registry configuration upgraded successfully
WARNING: directory ‘/u01/app/oracle/product’ is not owned by root
WARNING: directory ‘/u01/app/oracle’ is not owned by root
WARNING: directory ‘/u01/app’ is not owned by root
WARNING: directory ‘/u01′ is not owned by root
assigning default hostname racnode1 for node 1.
assigning default hostname racnode2 for node 2.
Successfully accumulated necessary OCR keys.
Using ports: CSS=49895 CRS=49896 EVMC=49898 and EVMR=49897.
node :
node 1: racnode1 racnode1-priv racnode1
node 2: racnode2 racnode2-priv racnode2
Creating OCR keys for user ‘root’, privgrp ‘root’..
Operation successful.
Now formatting voting device: /OCFS/VOT
Format of 1 voting devices complete.
Startup will be queued to init within 90 seconds.
Adding daemons to inittab
Expecting the CRS daemons to be up within 600 seconds.
CSS is active on these nodes.
racnode1
CSS is inactive on these nodes.
racnode2
Local node checking complete.
Run root.sh on remaining nodes to start CRS daemons.
4) Run root.sh from all remaining nodes.
[root@racnode2 crs]# ./root.sh
WARNING: directory ‘/u01/app/oracle/product’ is not owned by root
WARNING: directory ‘/u01/app/oracle’ is not owned by root
WARNING: directory ‘/u01/app’ is not owned by root
WARNING: directory ‘/u01′ is not owned by root
Checking to see if Oracle CRS stack is already configured
Setting the permissions on OCR backup directory
Setting up NS directories
Oracle Cluster Registry configuration upgraded successfully
WARNING: directory ‘/u01/app/oracle/product’ is not owned by root
WARNING: directory ‘/u01/app/oracle’ is not owned by root
WARNING: directory ‘/u01/app’ is not owned by root
WARNING: directory ‘/u01′ is not owned by root
clscfg: EXISTING configuration version 3 detected.
clscfg: version 3 is 10G Release 2.
assigning default hostname racnode1 for node 1.
assigning default hostname racnode2 for node 2.
Successfully accumulated necessary OCR keys.
Using ports: CSS=49895 CRS=49896 EVMC=49898 and EVMR=49897.
node :
node 1: racnode1 racnode1-priv racnode1
node 2: racnode2 racnode2-priv racnode2
clscfg: Arguments check out successfully.
NO KEYS WERE WRITTEN. Supply -force parameter to override.
-force is destructive and will destroy any previous cluster
configuration.
Oracle Cluster Registry for cluster has already been initialized
Startup will be queued to init within 90 seconds.
Adding daemons to inittab
Expecting the CRS daemons to be up within 600 seconds.
CSS is active on these nodes.
racnode1
racnode2
CSS is active on all nodes.
Waiting for the Oracle CRSD and EVMD to start
Oracle CRS stack installed and running under init(1M)
Running vipca(silent) for configuring nodeapps
Creating VIP application resource on (2) nodes…
Creating GSD application resource on (2) nodes…
Creating ONS application resource on (2) nodes…
Starting VIP application resource on (2) nodes…
Starting GSD application resource on (2) nodes…
Starting ONS application resource on (2) nodes…
Done.
Clusterware is up and running
[root@racnode2 crs]# crs_stat -t
Name Type Target State Host
————————————————————
ora.racnode1.gsd application ONLINE ONLINE racnode1
ora.racnode1.ons application ONLINE ONLINE racnode1
ora.racnode1.vip application ONLINE ONLINE racnode2
ora.racnode2.gsd application ONLINE ONLINE racnode2
ora.racnode2.ons application ONLINE ONLINE racnode2
ora.racnode2.vip application ONLINE ONLINE racnode2
5) Remaining Configuration
a) Configuring Server side ONS
[root@racnode1 crs]# $ORA_CRS_HOME/bin/racgons add_config racnode1:6200 racnode2:6200
b) Listener Configuration usint netca
we might want to remove listener.ora from both nodes as entries may exist already. Take backup or orignial listener.ora and use netca to configure &
register with OCR. Till 10g, we can not register listener using srvctl
Renaming orginal listener.ora
[oracle@racnode1 ~]$ mv $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin/listener.ora $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin/listener.ora.orig
[oracle@racnode1 ~]$ ssh racnode2 mv $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin/lstener.ora $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin/listener.ora.orig
c)Adding ASM, Instance, Database
[oracle@racnode1 ~]$ srvctl add asm -i +ASM1 -n racnode1 -o /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1
[oracle@racnode1 ~]$ srvctl add asm -i +ASM2 -n racnode2 -o /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1
[oracle@racnode1 ~]$ srvctl add database -d test -o /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1
[oracle@racnode1 ~]$ srvctl add instance -d test -i test1 -n racnode1
[oracle@racnode1 ~]$ srvctl add instance -d test -i test2 -n racnode2
I restarted both nodes, got everything back. Yes, Services can be re-created.
[oracle@racnode1 ~]$ crs_stat -t
Name Type Target State Host
————————————————————
ora….SM1.asm application ONLINE ONLINE racnode1
ora….C1.lsnr application ONLINE ONLINE racnode1
ora.racnode1.gsd application ONLINE ONLINE racnode1
ora.racnode1.ons application ONLINE ONLINE racnode1
ora.racnode1.vip application ONLINE ONLINE racnode1
ora….SM2.asm application ONLINE ONLINE racnode2
ora….C2.lsnr application ONLINE ONLINE racnode2
ora.racnode2.gsd application ONLINE ONLINE racnode2
ora.racnode2.ons application ONLINE ONLINE racnode2
ora.racnode2.vip application ONLINE ONLINE racnode2
ora.test.db application ONLINE ONLINE racnode2
ora….t1.inst application ONLINE ONLINE racnode1
ora….t2.inst application ONLINE ONLINE racnode2
Note : That’s why it’s recommended to take backup of root.sh after fresh install as subsequent patches can
overwrite root.sh script.
This is described on Metalink Note: 399482.1
Q 6)If we don't specify any location while adding ASM based datafile where it will get created?
Ans It will get created in $ORACLE_HOME/dbs path in Unix environment or $ORACLE_HOME/database in Windows environment
Q 7)If we missed the '+' sign while adding datafile to ASM what is the effect?
Ans The effect is that it creates Non-ASM based datafile in $ORACLE_HOME/dbs and database will be affected badly,in this case we need to use RMAN to convert from Non-ASM to ASM,so never try or do this any time.this is just for information purpose.
Q 8)Name 2 scenarios where your skill were challeged as DBA?
Ans This question is often repeated in the interview,so please prepare and plan to answer this question.Remember we need to answer 2 situations where we are tested as DBA,so if you have done some kind of restore and recovery in past for database it will ideal to express that experience,if you have done Oracle RAC installation and faced the issues make points and ellaborate it or if you have done any kind of Disaster recovery setup it will be good or If you have done upgrade from Oracle 11i to R12 and you remember the situation which made you struggle along with resolution it would be one more great choice to influence the interview.
Q 9)How many recoveries of Database have you done in your Career?
Ans This question is again to test how you react when you encounter a issue with your Database,so better to explain a scenario where you have actually involved in doing restore or recovery.
Eg: We lost one critical table of our production environment,so the steps involve while doing RMAN restore until time or SCN will be useful in this case,again make sure you provide the valide reason why you had choosen specific method for doing restore or recovery of table.So my sincere suggestion is to plan the steps for this question along with reasons,to answer point to point and help interview to pick you for that position.
Enjoy Challeges working as DBA and Apps DBA.
Best regards,
Rafi.
It is long time I didn't wrote and share my knowledge with you all,so thought of sharing some interesting interview question.I'm sure it will help everyone.
Q 1)How to get the list of patches applied to database if lsinventory is corrupted?
Ans: we have folder under $ORACLE_HOME called db_storage,we can do 'ls' to get the list of patches if our inventory is corrupted.(In case of windows you can just view by going to that path).
Note: we always have to backup the oracle home and inventory to be on safe side.
Below command will help you on it.
tar cvf – $ORACLE_HOME $ORACLE_HOME/oraInventory | gzip > Backup_Software_Version.tar.gz
http://avdeo.com/2008/08/19/
Q 2)If we want CRS(Cluster Ready Service) services to not get detected,what we should do?
Ans: $crsctl disable crs
Q 3)How to list the nodes in your cluster by running the following command on one node?
Ans: We can list the nodes in our cluster by running the following command on one node:
$ olsnodes
Q 4) How to schedule a existing concurrent request to run on specific day,all the times?
Ans : Let us say i have a gather stats concurrent request for a schema and I will it to run every weekend once(i.e every sunday),I can do it by following simple steps:
Step 1:Open the Cocurrent request in form window by specifying the specific request id(eg 4126398)
Step 2:Click on Detail Tab of the Concurrent request,we will be seeing schedule tab,click on it
Step 3:Schedule it on Sunday and Choose On specific days on the left side of the form page as shown in below screenshot
Q 5)How to recover corrupt OCR without backup?
Ans: We all know Oracle takes backups of OCR after every 4 hours,but what if we don't have backup and OCR is corrupted,we cannot go for installing whole clusterware which could be a lengthy process.
If we are on 10g R2 and later version then this can be done without re-installing Clusterware ( if you have backup of root.sh or it’s not overwritten by any
subsequent patch ) I tested this on my test machines.
We can get Current Voting Disk location
[root@racnode1 ~]# crsctl query css votedisk
0. 0 /OCFS/VOT
located 1 votedisk(s).
Current OCR Files location
[root@racnode1 ~]# ocrcheck
Status of Oracle Cluster Registry is as follows :
Version : 2
Total space (kbytes) : 262144
Used space (kbytes) : 4344
Available space (kbytes) : 257800
ID : 601339441
Device/File Name : /OCFS/OCR
Device/File integrity check succeeded
Device/File Name : /OCFS/OCR2
Device/File integrity check succeeded
Cluster registry integrity check succeeded
Output of CRS_STAT
[root@racnode1 ~]# crs_stat -t
Name Type Target State Host
————————————————————
ora….SM1.asm application ONLINE ONLINE racnode1
ora….C1.lsnr application ONLINE ONLINE racnode1
ora.racnode1.gsd application ONLINE ONLINE racnode1
ora.racnode1.ons application ONLINE ONLINE racnode1
ora.racnode1.vip application ONLINE ONLINE racnode1
ora….SM2.asm application ONLINE ONLINE racnode2
ora….C2.lsnr application ONLINE ONLINE racnode2
ora.racnode2.gsd application ONLINE ONLINE racnode2
ora.racnode2.ons application ONLINE ONLINE racnode2
ora.racnode2.vip application ONLINE ONLINE racnode2
ora.test.AP.cs application ONLINE ONLINE racnode1
ora….st1.srv application ONLINE ONLINE racnode1
ora.test.db application ONLINE ONLINE racnode2
ora….t1.inst application ONLINE ONLINE racnode1
ora….t2.inst application ONLINE ONLINE racnode2
I stopped clusterware on both nodes and removed OCR & Voting Disks.
[root@racnode1 ~]# ls -lrt /OCFS/*
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 399507456 Jun 29 14:05 /OCFS/OCR2
-rw-r—– 1 root oinstall 10485760 Jun 29 14:05 /OCFS/OCR
-rw-r–r– 1 oracle oinstall 10240000 Jun 29 14:05 /OCFS/VOT
[root@racnode1 ~]# rm -fr /OCFS/*
Tried again to start Cluster
[root@racnode1 ~]# crsctl start crs
Attempting to start CRS stack
The CRS stack will be started shortly
Clusterware could not startup.
[root@racnode1 ~]# crsctl check crs
Failure 1 contacting CSS daemon
Cannot communicate with CRS
Cannot communicate with EVM
Thrown error in /tmp/crsct.* file about OCR
[root@racnode1 ~]# cat /tmp/crsc*
OCR initialization failed accessing OCR device: PROC-26: Error while accessing the physical storage Operating System error [No such file or directory] [2]
OCR initialization failed accessing OCR device: PROC-26: Error while accessing the physical storage Operating System error [No such file or directory] [2]
OCR initialization failed accessing OCR device: PROC-26: Error while accessing the physical storage Operating System error [No such file or directory] [2]
Here, I lost all my OCR & Voting disk.
Below procedure can be used for recovery.
1) Execute rootdelete.sh script from All Nodes.
2) Execute rootdeinstall.sh from Primary Node.
3) Run root.sh from Primary node.
4) Run root.sh from all remaining nodes.
5) Execute remaining configurations (ONS,netca,register required resources)
1) Executing rootdelete.sh on all nodes, this script can be found under $ORA_CRS_HOME/install/
[root@racnode1 ~]# /u01/app/oracle/product/crs/install/rootdelete.sh
Shutting down Oracle Cluster Ready Services (CRS):
OCR initialization failed accessing OCR device: PROC-26: Error while accessing the physical storage Operating System error [No such file or directory] [2]
Shutdown has begun. The daemons should exit soon.
Checking to see if Oracle CRS stack is down…
Oracle CRS stack is not running.
Oracle CRS stack is down now.
Removing script for Oracle Cluster Ready services
Updating ocr file for downgrade
Cleaning up SCR settings in ‘/etc/oracle/scls_scr’
[root@racnode2 ~]# /u01/app/oracle/product/crs/install/rootdelete.sh
Shutting down Oracle Cluster Ready Services (CRS):
OCR initialization failed accessing OCR device: PROC-26: Error while accessing the physical storage Operating System error [No such file or directory] [2]
Shutdown has begun. The daemons should exit soon.
Checking to see if Oracle CRS stack is down…
Oracle CRS stack is not running.
Oracle CRS stack is down now.
Removing script for Oracle Cluster Ready services
Updating ocr file for downgrade
Cleaning up SCR settings in ‘/etc/oracle/scls_scr’
OCR initialization error can be safely ignored.
2) Execute rootdeinstall.sh on Primary Node, this script can also be found under $ORA_CRS_HOME/install
[root@racnode1 ~]# /u01/app/oracle/product/crs/install/rootdeinstall.sh
Removing contents from OCR mirror device
2560+0 records in
2560+0 records out
10485760 bytes (10 MB) copied, 0.031627 seconds, 332 MB/s
Removing contents from OCR device
2560+0 records in
2560+0 records out
10485760 bytes (10 MB) copied, 0.029947 seconds, 350 MB/s
3) Run root.sh on Primary node, this will create VOT & OCR files.
[root@racnode1 ~]# $ORA_CRS_HOME/root.sh
WARNING: directory ‘/u01/app/oracle/product’ is not owned by root
WARNING: directory ‘/u01/app/oracle’ is not owned by root
WARNING: directory ‘/u01/app’ is not owned by root
WARNING: directory ‘/u01′ is not owned by root
“/OCFS/VOT” does not exist. Create it before proceeding.
Make sure that this file is shared across cluster nodes.
1
I had to touch this file to proceed
[root@racnode1 ~]# touch /OCFS/VOT
[root@racnode1 ~]# $ORA_CRS_HOME/root.sh
WARNING: directory ‘/u01/app/oracle/product’ is not owned by root
WARNING: directory ‘/u01/app/oracle’ is not owned by root
WARNING: directory ‘/u01/app’ is not owned by root
WARNING: directory ‘/u01′ is not owned by root
Checking to see if Oracle CRS stack is already configured
Setting the permissions on OCR backup directory
Setting up NS directories
Oracle Cluster Registry configuration upgraded successfully
WARNING: directory ‘/u01/app/oracle/product’ is not owned by root
WARNING: directory ‘/u01/app/oracle’ is not owned by root
WARNING: directory ‘/u01/app’ is not owned by root
WARNING: directory ‘/u01′ is not owned by root
assigning default hostname racnode1 for node 1.
assigning default hostname racnode2 for node 2.
Successfully accumulated necessary OCR keys.
Using ports: CSS=49895 CRS=49896 EVMC=49898 and EVMR=49897.
node :
node 1: racnode1 racnode1-priv racnode1
node 2: racnode2 racnode2-priv racnode2
Creating OCR keys for user ‘root’, privgrp ‘root’..
Operation successful.
Now formatting voting device: /OCFS/VOT
Format of 1 voting devices complete.
Startup will be queued to init within 90 seconds.
Adding daemons to inittab
Expecting the CRS daemons to be up within 600 seconds.
CSS is active on these nodes.
racnode1
CSS is inactive on these nodes.
racnode2
Local node checking complete.
Run root.sh on remaining nodes to start CRS daemons.
4) Run root.sh from all remaining nodes.
[root@racnode2 crs]# ./root.sh
WARNING: directory ‘/u01/app/oracle/product’ is not owned by root
WARNING: directory ‘/u01/app/oracle’ is not owned by root
WARNING: directory ‘/u01/app’ is not owned by root
WARNING: directory ‘/u01′ is not owned by root
Checking to see if Oracle CRS stack is already configured
Setting the permissions on OCR backup directory
Setting up NS directories
Oracle Cluster Registry configuration upgraded successfully
WARNING: directory ‘/u01/app/oracle/product’ is not owned by root
WARNING: directory ‘/u01/app/oracle’ is not owned by root
WARNING: directory ‘/u01/app’ is not owned by root
WARNING: directory ‘/u01′ is not owned by root
clscfg: EXISTING configuration version 3 detected.
clscfg: version 3 is 10G Release 2.
assigning default hostname racnode1 for node 1.
assigning default hostname racnode2 for node 2.
Successfully accumulated necessary OCR keys.
Using ports: CSS=49895 CRS=49896 EVMC=49898 and EVMR=49897.
node :
node 1: racnode1 racnode1-priv racnode1
node 2: racnode2 racnode2-priv racnode2
clscfg: Arguments check out successfully.
NO KEYS WERE WRITTEN. Supply -force parameter to override.
-force is destructive and will destroy any previous cluster
configuration.
Oracle Cluster Registry for cluster has already been initialized
Startup will be queued to init within 90 seconds.
Adding daemons to inittab
Expecting the CRS daemons to be up within 600 seconds.
CSS is active on these nodes.
racnode1
racnode2
CSS is active on all nodes.
Waiting for the Oracle CRSD and EVMD to start
Oracle CRS stack installed and running under init(1M)
Running vipca(silent) for configuring nodeapps
Creating VIP application resource on (2) nodes…
Creating GSD application resource on (2) nodes…
Creating ONS application resource on (2) nodes…
Starting VIP application resource on (2) nodes…
Starting GSD application resource on (2) nodes…
Starting ONS application resource on (2) nodes…
Done.
Clusterware is up and running
[root@racnode2 crs]# crs_stat -t
Name Type Target State Host
————————————————————
ora.racnode1.gsd application ONLINE ONLINE racnode1
ora.racnode1.ons application ONLINE ONLINE racnode1
ora.racnode1.vip application ONLINE ONLINE racnode2
ora.racnode2.gsd application ONLINE ONLINE racnode2
ora.racnode2.ons application ONLINE ONLINE racnode2
ora.racnode2.vip application ONLINE ONLINE racnode2
5) Remaining Configuration
a) Configuring Server side ONS
[root@racnode1 crs]# $ORA_CRS_HOME/bin/racgons add_config racnode1:6200 racnode2:6200
b) Listener Configuration usint netca
we might want to remove listener.ora from both nodes as entries may exist already. Take backup or orignial listener.ora and use netca to configure &
register with OCR. Till 10g, we can not register listener using srvctl
Renaming orginal listener.ora
[oracle@racnode1 ~]$ mv $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin/listener.ora $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin/listener.ora.orig
[oracle@racnode1 ~]$ ssh racnode2 mv $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin/lstener.ora $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin/listener.ora.orig
c)Adding ASM, Instance, Database
[oracle@racnode1 ~]$ srvctl add asm -i +ASM1 -n racnode1 -o /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1
[oracle@racnode1 ~]$ srvctl add asm -i +ASM2 -n racnode2 -o /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1
[oracle@racnode1 ~]$ srvctl add database -d test -o /u01/app/oracle/product/10.2.0/db_1
[oracle@racnode1 ~]$ srvctl add instance -d test -i test1 -n racnode1
[oracle@racnode1 ~]$ srvctl add instance -d test -i test2 -n racnode2
I restarted both nodes, got everything back. Yes, Services can be re-created.
[oracle@racnode1 ~]$ crs_stat -t
Name Type Target State Host
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ora….SM1.asm application ONLINE ONLINE racnode1
ora….C1.lsnr application ONLINE ONLINE racnode1
ora.racnode1.gsd application ONLINE ONLINE racnode1
ora.racnode1.ons application ONLINE ONLINE racnode1
ora.racnode1.vip application ONLINE ONLINE racnode1
ora….SM2.asm application ONLINE ONLINE racnode2
ora….C2.lsnr application ONLINE ONLINE racnode2
ora.racnode2.gsd application ONLINE ONLINE racnode2
ora.racnode2.ons application ONLINE ONLINE racnode2
ora.racnode2.vip application ONLINE ONLINE racnode2
ora.test.db application ONLINE ONLINE racnode2
ora….t1.inst application ONLINE ONLINE racnode1
ora….t2.inst application ONLINE ONLINE racnode2
Note : That’s why it’s recommended to take backup of root.sh after fresh install as subsequent patches can
overwrite root.sh script.
This is described on Metalink Note: 399482.1
Q 6)If we don't specify any location while adding ASM based datafile where it will get created?
Ans It will get created in $ORACLE_HOME/dbs path in Unix environment or $ORACLE_HOME/database in Windows environment
Q 7)If we missed the '+' sign while adding datafile to ASM what is the effect?
Ans The effect is that it creates Non-ASM based datafile in $ORACLE_HOME/dbs and database will be affected badly,in this case we need to use RMAN to convert from Non-ASM to ASM,so never try or do this any time.this is just for information purpose.
Q 8)Name 2 scenarios where your skill were challeged as DBA?
Ans This question is often repeated in the interview,so please prepare and plan to answer this question.Remember we need to answer 2 situations where we are tested as DBA,so if you have done some kind of restore and recovery in past for database it will ideal to express that experience,if you have done Oracle RAC installation and faced the issues make points and ellaborate it or if you have done any kind of Disaster recovery setup it will be good or If you have done upgrade from Oracle 11i to R12 and you remember the situation which made you struggle along with resolution it would be one more great choice to influence the interview.
Q 9)How many recoveries of Database have you done in your Career?
Ans This question is again to test how you react when you encounter a issue with your Database,so better to explain a scenario where you have actually involved in doing restore or recovery.
Eg: We lost one critical table of our production environment,so the steps involve while doing RMAN restore until time or SCN will be useful in this case,again make sure you provide the valide reason why you had choosen specific method for doing restore or recovery of table.So my sincere suggestion is to plan the steps for this question along with reasons,to answer point to point and help interview to pick you for that position.
Enjoy Challeges working as DBA and Apps DBA.
Best regards,
Rafi.
