uncanny experiences combining Oracle Restart 11.2.0.2 and Data Guard 11.1.0.7

after a failed switchover in an environment combining a physical standby setup on 11.1.0.7 with a fresh 11.2.0.2 Oracle Restart install, I want to explore any dangers / problems / surprises inherent in this combination.

First, I'd have a general question - is there any way I can "persuade" Grid Infrastructure, having added a running database using srvctl add database, that this database really IS running and should be, too
(target = online)? From crsctl status resource -t I get

NAME           TARGET  STATE        SERVER                   STATE_DETAILS

, and I don't like waiting for the next database bounce to have it monitored by Grid Infrastructure :-;
(Same thing for the other resources like listeners, - Restart does not
seem to notice they are running...)
-
My next problem is, I added a service using srvctl and wanted to start it

  srvctl start service -s primonly -d dgtest1

, just as described in Uwe Hesse's blog article "Data Guard & Oracle Restart in 11gR2"
(http://uhesse.wordpress.com/2010/09/06/data-guard-oracle-restart-in-11gr2/),
and it turns out I get this error on the command line

PRCD-1084 : Failed to start service primonly PRCR-1079 : Failed to start resource ora.dgtest1.primonly.svc CRS-5017: The resource action "ora.dgtest1.primonly.svc start" encountered the following error:
ORA-02095: specified initialization parameter cannot be modified

CRS-2674: Start of 'ora.dgtest1.primonly.svc' on 'ix-vip-db' failed CRS-5017: The resource action "ora.dgtest1.primonly.svc clean" encountered the following error:

ORA-44304: service primonly does not exist
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_SYS_ERROR", line 86
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_SERVICE", line 442
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_SERVICE", line 390
ORA-06512: at line 1

and my instance is shutdown and stays so, too:

NAME           TARGET  STATE        SERVER                   STATE_DETAILS
ora.dgtest1.db ONLINE  OFFLINE                               Instance 

Now I wonder which parameter was not modifiable here (service_names should be modifiable, shouldn't it?), and I'm a bit shocked imagining this had happened on a real, productive database and not in test - I'd have killed the primary trying to start that service....

I'd very much appreciate your advice / experiences regarding the usage of 11gR1 databases with Grid Infrastructure, and especially regarding service creation / administration.

Many thanks in advance!
Sigrid

P.S. Regarding the "parameter not modifiable" error, I found the following in $GRID_HOME/log/ix-vip-db/agent/ohasd/oraagent_oracle:

2011-09-21 17:03:58.847: [ USRTHRD][1114904896] makeConnectStr =
(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=beq)(PROGRAM=/u01/app/oracle/product/11.1.0/db_1/bin/oracle)(ARGV0=oracledgtest)(E
NVS='ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/11.1.0/db_1,ORACLE_SID=dgtest')(ARGS='(DESCRIPTION=(LOCAL=YES)(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=beq)))'))(CONNECT_DATA=(SID=dgtest))) 2011-09-21 17:03:58.848: [ USRTHRD][1114904896] InstConnection::connectInt: server not attached 2011-09-21 17:03:58.888: [ USRTHRD][1114904896] ORA-02095: specified initialization parameter cannot be modified

2011-09-21 17:03:58.888: [ USRTHRD][1114904896] InstConnection:connectInt (3) OCIException OCI error 2095 2011-09-21 17:03:58.889: [ USRTHRD][1114904896] InstConnection:connect:excp OCIException OCI error 2095 2011-09-21 17:03:58.889: [ USRTHRD][1114904896] RLB.dgtest1 RlbEventPoller::poll Exception OCIException during initial connection: ORA-02095: specified initialization parameter ca

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