Tuesday, 3 November 2015

PRVF-4557 During installation of Oracle Binaries ( 11.2.0.4)

 

Introduction: During an Oracle software install for a new RAC environment once again  I was surprised by Oracle . I had installed the Grid infrastructure (GI) 11.2.0.3 on RedHat Linux with success and I was about to install the Oracle Binaries which should be a piece of cake with the installed  GI up and running properly.  According to the old quote “Never stop learning ( or being surprised  )”   during the preparations the runInstaller  managed to give me a surprise  and I was unable to continue with installation. So obviously this  surprise needed  fixing first.

Details: When running the runInstaller , after choosing the option to install the Oracle binaries on a Real Application Cluster environment  and after  a couple of options  I received a pop up telling me :
PRVF-4557 : Node application “ora.svrb1hr.vip” is offline on node
I was unable to go ahead and had to investigate. As always Google and the Oracle Community where  my brothers in oracle arms for this so i Came across this scenario :
First I checked my hosts file to make sure  information to be present on both nodes. That showed  following details which looked ok:
oracle@svrb1hr:/opt/oracle [CRM]# grep  vip /etc/hosts 
10.97.242.32 svrb1hr-vip.myenv.dc-world.de svrb1hr-vip
10.97.242.33 svrb2hr-vip.myenv.dc-world.de svrb2hr-vip
Next step was  checking my cluster resources. As  mentioned before GI install had finished  properly the day before so that really made me wonder:
oracle@svrb1hr:/opt/oracle [CRM]# crsctl status resource -t 
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
NAME           TARGET  STATE        SERVER                   STATE_DETAILS       
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Local Resources
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ora.CLUSTERDATA.dg
               ONLINE  ONLINE       svrb1hr                                     
               ONLINE  ONLINE       svrb2hr                                     
ora.LISTENER.lsnr
               ONLINE  OFFLINE      svrb1hr                                     
               ONLINE  ONLINE       svrb2hr                                     
ora.asm
               ONLINE  ONLINE       svrb1hr                 Started             
               ONLINE  ONLINE       svrb2hr                 Started             
ora.gsd
               OFFLINE OFFLINE      svrb1hr                                     
               OFFLINE OFFLINE      svrb2hr                                     
ora.net1.network
               ONLINE  ONLINE       svrb1hr                                     
               ONLINE  ONLINE       svrb2hr                                     
ora.ons
               ONLINE  ONLINE       svrb1hr                                     
               ONLINE  ONLINE       svrb2hr                                     
ora.registry.acfs
               ONLINE  ONLINE       svrb1hr                                     
               ONLINE  ONLINE       svrb2hr                                     
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Cluster Resources
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ora.LISTENER_SCAN1.lsnr
      1        ONLINE  ONLINE       svrb1hr                                     
ora.LISTENER_SCAN2.lsnr
      1        ONLINE  ONLINE       svrb2hr                                     
ora.LISTENER_SCAN3.lsnr
      1        ONLINE  ONLINE       svrb1hr                                     
ora.cvu
      1        ONLINE  ONLINE       svrb2hr                                     
ora.svrb1hr.vip
      1        ONLINE  INTERMEDIATE svrb2hr                 FAILED OVER         
ora.svrb2hr.vip
      1        ONLINE  ONLINE       svrb2hr                                     
ora.oc4j
      1        ONLINE  ONLINE       svrb1hr                                     
ora.scan1.vip
      1        ONLINE  ONLINE       svrb1hr                                     
ora.scan2.vip
      1        ONLINE  ONLINE       svrb2hr                                     
ora.scan3.vip
      1        ONLINE  ONLINE       svrb1hr                                     

Well that was unexpected, because  expectation was that the srvrb1hr.vip should be running on the first node. Still don’t understand what happened to cause this. Hmm and frankly if you have suggestions what happened please let me know . But  I did know  it was needed to bring back the vip  address to the first server.
First attempt  was to issue the command needed  ( crs_relocate ) on the node where  I was already working ( node 1) .
oracle@svrb1hr:/opt/oracle [CRM]# which crs_relocate
/opt/crs/product/11203/crs/bin/crs_relocate
oracle@svrb1hr:/opt/oracle [CRM]# crs_relocate svrb1hr.vip
CRS-0210: Could not find resource ‘svrb1hr.vip’.
###  activities needed 2 b done from second node
Grumbling with this  but well at least it was explained what to do next ….
So I opened a session against the second node , made sure my Oracle Home was pointing to the GI.
oracle@svrb1hr:/opt/oracle [CRM]# ssh svrb2hr
On the second box  the command crs_relocate was entered:
                     
oracle@svrb2hr:/opt/oracle [CRS]# crs_relocate ora.svrb1hr.vip
Attempting to stop `ora.svrb1hr.vip` on member `svrb2hr`
Stop of `ora.svrb1hr.vip` on member `svrb2hr` succeeded.
Attempting to start `ora.svrb1hr.vip` on member `svrb1hr`
Start of `ora.svrb1hr.vip` on member `svrb1hr` succeeded.
Attempting to start `ora.LISTENER.lsnr` on member `svrb1hr`
Start of `ora.LISTENER.lsnr` on member `svrb1hr` succeeded.
Well that  looked promessing  so let’s check one more time then:

oracle@svrb2hr:/opt/oracle [CRS]#  crsctl status resource -t 
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
NAME           TARGET  STATE        SERVER                   STATE_DETAILS       
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Local Resources
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ora.CLUSTERDATA.dg
               ONLINE  ONLINE       svrb1hr                                     
               ONLINE  ONLINE       svrb2hr                                     
ora.LISTENER.lsnr
               ONLINE  ONLINE       svrb1hr                                     
               ONLINE  ONLINE       svrb2hr                                     
ora.asm
               ONLINE  ONLINE       svrb1hr                 Started             
               ONLINE  ONLINE       svrb2hr                 Started             
ora.gsd
               OFFLINE OFFLINE      svrb1hr                                     
               OFFLINE OFFLINE      svrb2hr                                     
ora.net1.network
               ONLINE  ONLINE       svrb1hr                                     
               ONLINE  ONLINE       svrb2hr                                     
ora.ons
               ONLINE  ONLINE       svrb1hr                                     
               ONLINE  ONLINE       svrb2hr                                     
ora.registry.acfs
               ONLINE  ONLINE       svrb1hr                                     
               ONLINE  ONLINE       svrb2hr                                     
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Cluster Resources
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ora.LISTENER_SCAN1.lsnr
      1        ONLINE  ONLINE       svrb1hr                                     
ora.LISTENER_SCAN2.lsnr
      1        ONLINE  ONLINE       svrb2hr                                     
ora.LISTENER_SCAN3.lsnr
      1        ONLINE  ONLINE       svrb1hr                                     
ora.cvu
      1        ONLINE  ONLINE       svrb2hr                                     
ora.svrb1hr.vip
      1        ONLINE  ONLINE       svrb1hr                                     
ora.svrb2hr.vip
      1        ONLINE  ONLINE       svrb2hr                                     
ora.oc4j
      1        ONLINE  ONLINE       svrb1hr                                     
ora.scan1.vip
      1        ONLINE  ONLINE       svrb1hr                                     
ora.scan2.vip
      1        ONLINE  ONLINE       svrb2hr                                     
ora.scan3.vip
      1        ONLINE  ONLINE       svrb1hr

Much better!!  after this I restarted the runInstaller again from the first node and indeed installation of  the Oracle Binaries was flawless.

Please refer to : https://mathijsbruggink.wordpress.com/2014/10/03/prvf-4557-during-installation-of-oracle-binaries-11-2-0-3/

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