herbert koelman wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 09:26:22 -0800, Andreas Piesk wrote:
>
>> herbert koelman schrieb:
>>> It probably did show you that I haven't investigated this stuff for weeks
>>> now. And it also did tell you that Oracle support hasn't been contacted yet.
>> you should have mentioned it, nobody knows what you have done so far.
>>
>>> But if I'm asking if anybody is experiencing any sort of problem running
>>> rman to backup a cluster, it's because we (oracle and our team) have
>>> not been able to come up with any explanation so far.
>> no, i don't have any problems backing up RAC (10.2.0.2) on AIX (now
>> 5.3TL4).
>> i assume you're using 10g too because you mentioned ONS (i highly doubt
>> that ONS is the root of your problem).
>>
>>> But if you are not competent on this subject, don't waste
>>> your (and our) time with this very stupid answer.
>> stupid or not, he made some points.
>>
>> back to topic (i repeat some questions asked by sybrandb):
>>
>> what do you mean by 'backup locks up"? it stalls?
>> did you use 'truss' to see what the server processes do when this "lock
>> up" occurs? how exactly do you back up your database (backup script +
>> tns config could help).
>>
>> next thing: "cluster is failing". please define "failiing". do you see
>> node evictions or does the cluster hang or reboot or what exactly
>> happens? any hints what's going on in crs logs (especially css)?
>>
>> regards,
>> -ap
>
> Cluster is failing: I meant that 3 nodes on 4 are slowly stopping.Normally
> when something goes wrong, VIP addresses are moved from the failing
> machine to one that is up and running. And service can be resumed on the
> rest of the cluster members. In my case nothing seems to happen.
> At first, when the rman fails (more infos on this soon), everything seems
> to be still running fine.
>
> An hour or two after the rman incident, the client application is
> not able to access data anymore on the first failing node. Active connexion
> are timed out. New connexion (sqlplus for example) are not possible.
> Nothing else happens, no reboot or shutdown, simply no more service.
> Everything seem to be hung.
>
> A couple of hour later all 4 nodes are going down one after an other.
>
> By the way are you using Grid control ? Some nut in our company has
> installed it without informing the rest of us (no testing, no nothing). Do
> you know if there are known problems with this tool ?
Please return to basics.
- Did you send an RDA to Oracle with your SR?
- What version of Oracle?
- What is RMAN connecting to? Database? Instance? Service?
- Post your RMAN script.
- What does a StatsPack show?
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Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
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Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
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Received on Mon Dec 18 2006 - 14:54:39 CST
