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Oracle Restart Question

sdk11Jun 19 2025

Hi All,

I need your help in understanding a situation with server control utility. Yesterday I have configured Oracle restart functionality in couple of our production databases. Things worked fine in most of the databases (including the standby databases), but in one database(Primary) when I issued “srvctl start database -d <database name>' to start the auto restart service on a database that was in read-write mode, then Oracle shutdown the database. I have not seen this behavior in other databases. Please see the list of following steps performed, and share if you have any explanation.

I am using Oracle version 19.24.0.0.0

  1. srvctl config database -d <database> – I have verified the parameters (

    spfile – set to correct spfile

    startup options, – set to open

    stop options – set to immediate

    database role – set to primary

    management policy – set to Automatic

  2. srvctl status database -d <database> – The output was “Database is not running”

  3. srvctl start database -d <database name> – This is where it took some time because this command restarted the database

    I have looked at alert log, and ASM logs for any information but could not find any other than shutdown and start of DB.

    Please share your thoughts

    Thanks

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