Database Software

Hi,

Today while creating a new ASM for DEV testing purposes on this newly built machine i failed to locate the 'localconfig' file under $ORACLE_HOME/bin which ultimately lead to this error message during ASM instance startup.
Discovered that 'localconfig' is missing or is somehow not created under $ORACLE_HOME/bin

[oracle@localhost bin]$ pwd
/u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1/bin
[root@localhost bin]# localconfig add
-bash: localconfig: command not found

[oracle@localhost bin]$ ls -ltr localc
ls: localc: No such file or directory


And when tried same on another machine (10g r1) it ran successfully:

[root@localhost bin]# localconfig add
/etc/oracle does not exist. Creating it now.
Successfully accumulated necessary OCR keys.
Creating OCR keys for user 'root', privgrp 'root'..
Operation successful.
Configuration for local CSS has been initialized

Adding to inittab
Startup will be queued to init within 90 seconds.
Checking the status of new Oracle init process...
Expecting the CRS daemons to be up within 600 seconds.
CSS is active on these nodes.
localhost
CSS is active on all nodes.
Oracle CSS service is installed and running under init(1M)


I tried to ignore the step but received given error code when tried to start-up the ASM instance.

SQL> startup
ORA-29701: unable to connect to Cluster Synchronization Service


Details:
SQL> select banner from v$version;

BANNER
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production
PL/SQL Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production
CORE 11.2.0.1.0 Production
TNS for Linux: Version 11.2.0.1.0 - Production
NLSRTL Version 11.2.0.1.0 - Production

OS:
SQL> !uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.32-300.32.3.el5uek #1 SMP Thu Sep 27 10:39:12 PDT 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
Oracle Enterprise Linux 5

This is a non-Prod machine and used for testing purposes and in place for development parties.
I will highly appreciate if someone please step ahead and help me fixing this issue.



Thanks
Prashant Dixit