Re: dbca and ASM

I hope you have already tried this .
If not

add the asm sid name of +ASM to the listener.ora, start the listener, see that the u can connect to this asm instance through tnsname and then run dbca.

On 9/28/07, Herring Dave - dherri <Dave.Herring_at_acxiom.com> wrote:
>
> Folks,
>
> I'm trying to create a database on my RAC cluster with ASM. This is on
> 10.2.0.3 and RHEL4 64bit. ASM is up and running on both nodes (only
> 2-node cluster) and I've got valid diskgroups in each. Checking crsstat it
> shows all services are up, as in ASM, LISTENER, gsd, ons, vip on both nodes.
>
> Now for creating a database. I thought dbca would be the way. But in the
> process, I believe step 7, I'm asked for the storage to use. I pick ASM,
> then "next". At this point I get the message: "DBCA could not startup the
> ASM instance configured on this node. To proceed with database creation
> using ASM you ...".
>
> I can't figure out why dbca can't see my ASM instance. I've tried setting
> ORACLE_SID=, ORACLE_SID=+ASM, ORACLE_SID=+ASM1 (local instance on this
> server of ASM), all run out of $ORACLE_HOME/bin, not
> $ORA_ASM_HOME/bin. Each try gives me the same error.
>
> Any clue how to get dbca see your existing ASM instances? Is there any
> way to find out what exactly is failing behind the scenes? I've set tracing
> for dbca (-DTRACING.ENABLED=true -DTRACING.LEVEL=2 in the last line of
> dbca), but that doesn't output anything after first starting up.
>
> Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks.
>
> Dave
>
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Arun

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