Administering Oracle Clusterware

1. CRSCTL: Cluster Control utility performs various administrative operation of oracle clusterware. It is located in $ORA_CRS_HOME/bin and must be executed by the “root” user.

a. To check the current state of all oracle clusterware daemon:

[root@rac1 bin]# ./crsctl check crs
CSS appears healthy
CRS appears healthy
EVM appears healthy

b.You can also check the state of individual oracle clusterware daemon:

[root@rac1 bin]# ./crsctl check cssd

CSS appears healthy

[root@rac1 bin]# ./crsctl check crsd

CRS appears healthy

[root@rac1 bin]# ./crsctl check evmd
EVM appears healthy

c. To start oracle clusterware

[root@rac1 bin]# ./crsctl start crs
Attempting to start CRS stack
The CRS stack will be started shortly

d. To stop oracle clusterware

[root@rac1 bin]# ./crsctl stop crs
Stopping resources.
Successfully stopped CRS resources
Stopping CSSD.
Shutting down CSS daemon.
Shutdown request successfully issued.

e. To disable  oracle clusterware:

[root@rac1 bin]# ./crsctl disable crs

f.  To enable  oracle clusterware:

[root@rac1 bin]# ./crsctl enable crs

g. To get current value of CSS parameter

[root@rac1 bin]# ./crsctl get css <parameter>

for  example: to get value of misscount parameter

[root@rac1 bin]# ./crsctl get css misscount
60

h. To set a new value of CSS parameter

[root@rac1 bin]# ./crsctl set css <parameter>

for  example: to set value of misscount parameter

[root@rac1 bin]# ./crsctl set css misscount 120
Configuration parameter misscount is now set to 120.

i. To unset CSS parameter value

[root@rac1 bin]# ./crsctl unset css <parameter>

for  example: to unset value of misscount parameter

[root@rac1 bin]# ./crsctl unset css misscount
Configuration parameter misscount is now undefined.

j. To list the module for debugging in CSS

[root@rac2 bin]# ./crsctl lsmodules css
The following are the CSS modules ::
CSSD
COMMCRS
COMMNS
2. CRS_STAT: It reports the current state of resources configured in the OCR.

[oracle@rac1 bin]$ ./crs_stat -t
Name                      Type              Target       State         Host
———————————————————————————–
ora….C1.inst             application    ONLINE    ONLINE          rac1
ora….C2.inst             application    ONLINE    ONLINE          rac2
ora….AC1.srv            application    ONLINE    ONLINE          rac1
ora.RAC.abc.cs          application    ONLINE    ONLINE          rac1
ora.RAC.db                application    ONLINE    ONLINE         rac2
ora….AC1.srv            application    ONLINE    ONLINE          rac1
ora….ice2.cs             application    ONLINE    ONLINE          rac1
ora….AC1.srv            application    ONLINE    ONLINE          rac1

3. CRS_STOP: This command used to stop resource or cluster member.

[root@rac1 bin]# ./crs_stop ora.rac1.ons
Attempting to stop `ora.rac1.ons` on member `rac1`
Stop of `ora.rac1.ons` on member `rac1` succeeded.

4.  CRS_START: This command used to start resource or cluster member.

[root@rac1 bin]# ./crs_start ora.rac1.ons
Attempting to start `ora.rac1.ons` on member `rac1`
Start of `ora.rac1.ons` on member `rac1` succeeded.

5.  OCRDUMP : It dumps the contents of OCR into a text file.

[root@rac1 bin]# ./ocrdump /home/oracle/ocr.dmp

6. OCRCHECK : It verifies the integrity of the OCR.

[root@rac2 bin]# ./ocrcheck
Status of Oracle Cluster Registry is as follows :
Version                                :    2
Total space (kbytes)         :    5237072
Used space (kbytes)         :    9360
Available space (kbytes)  :    5227712
ID                                        :    794527192
Device/File Name             :    /apps/oracle/oradata/ocr
Device/File integrity check succeeded

Cluster registry integrity check succeeded

7. OCRCONFIG: It perform various administrative operation on the OCR.

To know more about ocrconfig use click here: OCRCONFIG

About the Author Brijesh

I'm 10gR2 RAC Oracle certified professional, working from last 6 year in the field of database.

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2 comments
Muhammad Rawish Siddiqui says August 25, 2009

We have Oracle eBusiness r12.
RAC is implemented and working fine.
But on Node 2, Cluster Related Services are not started, automatically, at the time of BOOT.

Can you please in this connection?

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Brijesh says August 27, 2009

Hi! Rawish

You check at node2 whether cluster related services are disabled.

If disabled then enable it

[root@rac1 bin]# ./crsctl enable crs

or you can also use

[root@rac1 bin]#/etc/init.d/init.crs enable

Also check

1. The alert log file that belong to the Oracle clusterware software

2. The alert log file that belong to that instance that did not start

3. Check the resource state by using crs_stat -t command

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