Challenge with Oracle 10G without Network on AIX

Hopefully, this situation isn't that unique, although I've searched usenet and haven't found anything that helps as of yet. I'm running a pSeries 510 with 4 partitions (1 VIO, 2 AIX 5.3, 1 SUSE 9). This system, along with an HMC, will be used for traveling demos. On one of my AIX 5.3 partitions, I have Oracle 10G installed. While on the network in the office, Oracle runs correctly (apps connect, life is good)...

However, once I powerdown and restart the server and partitions without the network the fun begins. -- Oracle won't accept any connections; the listener starts but does not list the instance I created anymore in the status; (I'm not a DBA, but I did find on usenet that the 10G db's will tell the listener they exist.) Oracle is using 50% of the assigned processor; although I have no clue what its doing. It will maintain this usage indefinitely (I've let it run over night). The database doesn't want to shutdown unless 'shutdown abort' is issued. I've flushed
the routing tables, which hasn't helped. Other network related tasks (ssh, ftp, etc )on the partition are working correctly. All the partitions, as well as another node I have in the switch (that's no longer on the network) can communicate with each other. If I reboot and place the switch back on the network, all is well. Any thoughts on how I can get Oracle to run on AIX without the network? I've posted a similar thread in an AIX group to see if they have any ideas.

Thanks in advance for your help. Received on Fri Jun 24 2005 - 09:20:56 CDT