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Re: lsnrctl can start listener, crs_start cannot

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 17:34:57 -0700
Message-ID: <1181262897.37955@bubbleator.drizzle.com>


herta wrote:
> On Jun 7, 10:32 pm, DA Morgan <damor..._at_psoug.org> wrote:

>> herta wrote:
>>> We're using ASM, and I cannot configure ASM without the listeners. :-(
>> Where in the installation docs does it tell you to use netca to
>> create a listener for an ASM instance?
>> --
>> Daniel A. Morgan
>> University of Washington
>> damor..._at_x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)
>> Puget Sound Oracle Users Groupwww.psoug.org

>
> To answer both your questions:
>
> I ran netca on the primary node only. It asks whether to run
> clusterwide or locally, so chances of misunderstanding are slim.
>
> The documentation doesn't explicitly tell you to set up the listener
> in advance, but as already explained, we use ASM. If you configure
> ASM (in our case using dbca) without the listeners up and running, it
> will ask to create the listeners for you. AFAIK, you cannot set up
> ASM in a cluster without the listeners up and running. (But feel free
> to correct me if I missed something.) If you let dbca create the
> listeners for you during the ASM setup, they will run in ASM's
> ORACLE_HOME. We prefer running them in the databases' ORACLE_HOME.
> FWIIW, this also came up during the Oracle RAC training, and this is
> the way the instructor recommended setting this up.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Herta

Let Oracle create the listeners and let them run where they run. I don't know why the instructor indicated otherwise but we have been doing a lot of these and never run NETCA for the ASM instance. Then we also haven't been having the issues you've had. <g>

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
www.psoug.org
Received on Thu Jun 07 2007 - 19:34:57 CDT

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