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What is connected to an idle instance in Oracle?
“Connected to an idle instance” usually means that you connected “AS SYSDBA” and the instance you connected to is not started.
How do I connect to an ASM instance?
How to connect to ASM instance from a remote client
- Edit the listener.ora on ASM server.
- Edit the tnsnames.ora on the client.
- Setup your remote login password for your ASM instance on the ASM server.
- Set your SYS password using ORAPWD for the ASM instance.
How do I run an Asmcmd script?
In noninteractive mode, you run a single ASMCMD command by including the command and command options on the command line when invoking ASMCMD. ASMCMD runs the command, generates output if any, and then exits….Running ASMCMD in Noninteractive Mode.
| Type | Return Code | Description |
|---|---|---|
| lsdsk | 2 | Results include both member and candidate disks. |
How do I fix Ora 03113 End of communication channel?
Solution 3:
- Startup the instance in nomount: SQL> startup nomount.
- Open database into mount state: alter database mount;
- Clear the redo log files having issue due to power failure or unclean shutdown of database. SQL> alter database clear unarchived logfile group 1;
- Shutdown the database and open it.
How do you check ASM instance is up or not?
Verify the ASM setup
- Change to the Oracle Clusterware/Grid Infrastructure home directory: For Oracle RAC 10g Release 2/Oracle RAC 11g Release 1: # cd $CRS_HOME/bin.
- Verify the status of ASM on all the nodes in the cluster: # ./srvctl status asm ASM instance +ASM1 is running on node galaxy.
How do I manually mount ASM Diskgroup?
When you want to mount or dismount disk groups manually, use the ALTER DISKGROUP… MOUNT or ALTER DISKGROUP… DISMOUNT statement. You can mount or dismount disk groups by name, or specify ALL .
How do I start Asmcmd?
For the majority of the examples in this chapter, ASMCMD was started with the -p option….Syntax for Starting ASMCMD.
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| V | Displays the version of ASMCMD and then exits. |
| –nocp | Disables connection pooling. For information about connection pooling, refer to Oracle Database Administrator’s Guide. |
What is Asmcmd Oracle?
ASMCMD is a command-line utility that you can use to manage Oracle ASM instances, disk groups, file access control for disk groups, files and directories within disk groups, templates for disk groups, and volumes. You can run the ASMCMD utility in either interactive or noninteractive mode.
How do you call Asmcmd?
To run ASMCMD in interactive mode:
- Enter the following at the OS command prompt: $ asmcmd.
- Enter an ASMCMD command and press Enter. The command runs and displays its output, and then ASMCMD prompts for the next command.
- Continue entering ASMCMD commands. Enter the command exit to exit ASMCMD.
What does the error ORA 03113 mean?
An ORA-3113 “end of file on communication channel” error is a general error usually reported by a client process connected to an Oracle database. The error basically means ‘I cannot communicate with the Oracle shadow process’.
How do I resolve ORA-00214?
ORA-00214: control file inconsistent with file
- The ORA-00214 error causes.
- sql> startup ORACLE instance started.
- sql> startup mount; —- The mount was successful.
- sql> alter system switch logfile; sql> alter system switch logfile; sql> shutdown immediate;
How can I tell if a database is using ASM?
Also, you can check if you have an ASM instance running as a service. Check Windows Explorer to see if your datafiles are on the file system or can’t be seen(meaning you are on ASM). you could do that too…if the datafiles show up as DISK1 etc…with the sign prefix, it means you are on ASM…
How do I find my ASM disk details?
To see all disks, use V$ASM_DISKGROUP instead. Contains one row for every Oracle ASM file in every disk group mounted by the Oracle ASM instance. In an Oracle ASM instance, contains one row for every active Oracle ASM long running operation executing in the Oracle ASM instance.
How do I mount a data Diskgroup in ASM?
What is the difference between asmcmd and ASM instance?
ASM Instance is up and running , but ASMCMD shows Connected to an idle instance. Connected to an idle instance. To view full details, sign in with your My Oracle Support account.
What does connected to an idle instance mean?
Actually, Connected to an idle instance is a message rather than an error, it indicates that the database you entered is idle, stopped or shutdown. It’s pretty normal if your database instance is not started up, you can just start the Oracle database instance up and check the open status.
What to do if Oracle database instance is not running?
It’s pretty normal if your database instance is not started up, you can just start the Oracle database instance up and check the open status. However, if the message surprised you, then you should know what happened. In this post, I will talk about Connected to an idle instance on Linux and Windows respectively below.