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The ASM ora-04031 error, better known as: Adding more disks to an ASM Instance than there is memory..

To accommodate a change of strategy  I needed to add an additional 20 disks to the current ASM instance I had running..This needed to be done in the shortest time possible, and when the Storage and Linux Admin where done, … Continue reading

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Oracle OEM 13c Metric Collection Error..Or..”Show Me The Graphs!”

When implementing the OEM 13C version, we have a server where we house about 16 databases. Adding the first bunch of the databases went like a breeze, but when all was said and done, we had 3 databases which didn’t … Continue reading

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Configure NetBackup For Oracle RAC..Or..”Back Me Up!”

When configuring Netbackup to backup a RAC database, we ran into the following error: 1/29/2016 3:28:02 PM – Info bphdb(pid=2717) INF – Database status is: SHUTDOWN 1/29/2016 3:28:02 PM – Info bphdb(pid=2717) INF – Database open mode is: NOT MOUNTED … Continue reading

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Database Fails To Start With Large Amounts Of Huge Pages Available..Or..”Where Did I Lost My Mind..”

When configuring HugePages for a database, it kept refusing to startup (since the parameter large pages=’only’ was set). There were more than enough HugePages free, as shown below: $ cat /proc/meminfo |grep -i huge HugePages_Total: 33040 HugePages_Free:  14127 HugePages_Rsvd:   1569 … Continue reading

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Building A Single Instance Physical Standby For A RAC Primary…Or..Active Dataguard, Save My (Daily) Data!

Today we are going to embark on the adventure of building an Active DataGuard database (the “standby”) with a two-node RAC as the source (the “primary”). There are countless other blogs out there with information regarding these kind of implementations … Continue reading

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OEM 12c how to deploy an agent to a linux host..like: “Really? It DOES work?”

This day I was playing around in OEM 12c again, and decided to look for trouble and install an agent to a target already running a very non critical db. This looked to me the ideal candidate to have an … Continue reading

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OEM 12c startpage throws an 404 Error…or better said: where did my homepage go?

When I left the OEM 12c installation after a couple of days nicely humming along, I was even thinking we were friends!, this morning when I wanted to get to know my new found friend better, the OMS landing page … Continue reading

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Come on…OEM DBConsole…just START “Raccing” already!

ok, this was nagging me for a while now, and now I decided to make quick matters of this…Ever had the situation where after install the OEM Dbconsole was running, but after a reboot, it just doesn’t want to start? … Continue reading

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ASHes to ash…or when ASH stops working…

Oracle claims one can change the time of the Operating System without affecting the database.  This is somewhat true, since I have done this in the past, for when an OS was off by about 15 minutes… This story started … Continue reading

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How to create an ASM Disk (or Diskgroup) when using UDEV.

Hi there! When Google-ing for using UDev instead of ASMLIB, you either end up downloading the same PDF file over and over again (which does contain nice info) or end up at the support site of Red-hat. Which also covers … Continue reading

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