Comments on: Clustered ASM and RAC password file maintenance

By: Harald van Breederode

Harald van Breederode — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 13:06:13 +0000

Hi Seth,

Many thanx for your question. The password file name change is only implemented for policy based managed databases. Policy based managed databases have an underscore between the database name and the node number. I.e. ORCL_1 instead of ORCL1. This wasn’t completely clear in the posting. I have updated the posting to reflect this change better. Thanx for catching this.
-Harald

By: Seth Miller

Seth Miller — Sun, 16 Dec 2012 04:29:35 +0000

Nice post Harald. Can you send some supporting documentation or demonstration for your claim that password file naming convention for RAC database includes “orapwORCL instead of orapwORCL1 for a RAC instance.” My testing indicates this is not true and I want to be sure I am not missing something.

By: Chandu

Chandu — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 11:10:39 +0000

This is really a nice feature, and good information. will try to find information from oracle documentation how this is done, i would like to know what how does this propagation is implemented or how is works in the background.
if you find you can post it here
Thanks

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By: Harald van Breederode

Harald van Breederode — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 08:52:16 +0000

Hi Jianing,

There could be dozens of reasons why you have this probelm. Unfortunatly I am unable to help you figure out what is wrong in your setup deu to time constraints. I suggest that you closely inspect your setup and check if there are any differences between the nodes that do work and the ones that do not work properly or maybe you can log a service request by Oracle Support.
-Harald

By: jianing Shu

jianing Shu — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 21:11:34 +0000

I have a problem to access ASM instances in our RAC cluster. node 1 and 2 can access but 3 and 4. I have changed password file based on your way. But it still doesnot work.

In Grid control, when I try to access asm it will ask me the password. After I insert the password as sysasm, I can access node 1 and node 2, however no matter how I try to access 3 and 4 it doesn’t work.

Can you help this?

By: Harald van Breederode

Harald van Breederode — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 13:03:54 +0000

Hi Job,

Thanx for the confirmation. Hopefully this will be added in a future release or maybe adding support to store password files inside ASM is a better solution. We’ll see what the future will bring us.
-Harald

By: Job Oprel

Job Oprel — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:24:24 +0000

Harald, thanks for this post. In addition to this: I tested this feature in a 11.2.0.2 – environment at home, and also in this version it is only implemented for clustered ASM and not yet for the RAC-database. It’s a pity. Kind regards, Job.