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OUI cannot list candidate disks for ASM Disk Group during Grid Infra instln

user-1221Jul 9 2011 — edited Oct 25 2012
Hi,

We are trying to install 2 node Oracle RAC 11gR2 on HP-UX 11.31, all the prerequisites are done, the CVU test is successfull for both the nodes, except the "-x" slewing option for NTP on node 2.

During ASM Disk Group creation, the OUI cannot see the disks;

provided grid:asmadmin ownership on the disks with 660 file permissions, even created the similar names for the shared disks on the both nodes.
_Node 1:_

*/dev/rdisk*
crw-rw----   1 grid       asmadmin    22 0x000010 Jul  9 10:33 ocr1
crw-rw----   1 grid       asmadmin    22 0x000003 Jul  9 10:33 ocr2
crw-rw----   1 grid       asmadmin    22 0x00000d Jul  9 10:33 ocr3
crw-rw----   1 grid       asmadmin    22 0x00000e Jul  9 10:33 vote1
crw-rw----   1 grid       asmadmin    22 0x00000c Jul  9 10:33 vote2
crw-rw----   1 grid       asmadmin    22 0x00000b Jul  9 10:33 vote3
crw-rw----   1 grid       asmadmin    22 0x00000f Jul  9 10:33 data1
crw-rw----   1 grid       asmadmin    22 0x000002 Jul  9 10:33 arch1

*/dev/rdsk*
crw-rw----   1 grid       asmadmin   188 0x030200 Jul  9 09:21 ocr1
crw-rw----   1 grid       asmadmin   188 0x1b0200 Jul  9 09:21 ocr2
crw-rw----   1 grid       asmadmin   188 0x2d0100 Jul  9 09:21 ocr3
crw-rw----   1 grid       asmadmin   188 0x2f0200 Jul  9 09:21 vote1
crw-rw----   1 grid       asmadmin   188 0x110300 Jul  9 09:21 vote2
crw-rw----   1 grid       asmadmin   188 0x0b0300 Jul  9 09:21 vote3
crw-rw----   1 grid       asmadmin   188 0x150100 Jul  9 09:21 data1
crw-rw----   1 grid       asmadmin   188 0x030100 Jul  9 09:21 arch1

_Node 2:_

*/dev/rdisk*
crw-rw----   1 grid       asmadmin    22 0x000014 Jul  9 10:33 ocr2
crw-rw----   1 grid       asmadmin    22 0x000012 Jul  9 10:33 ocr1
crw-rw----   1 grid       asmadmin    22 0x00000e Jul  9 10:33 ocr3
crw-rw----   1 grid       asmadmin    22 0x000010 Jul  9 10:33 vote1
crw-rw----   1 grid       asmadmin    22 0x000011 Jul  9 10:33 vote2
crw-rw----   1 grid       asmadmin    22 0x000013 Jul  9 10:33 vote3
crw-rw----   1 grid       asmadmin    22 0x00000c Jul  9 10:33 arch1
crw-rw----   1 grid       asmadmin    22 0x00000f Jul  9 10:33 data1

*/dev/rdsk/*
crw-rw----   1 grid       asmadmin   188 0x1a0200 Jul  9 09:28 ocr1
crw-rw----   1 grid       asmadmin   188 0x1c0200 Jul  9 09:28 ocr2
crw-rw----   1 grid       asmadmin   188 0x2f0100 Jul  9 09:28 ocr3
crw-rw----   1 grid       asmadmin   188 0x180300 Jul  9 09:28 vote1
crw-rw----   1 grid       asmadmin   188 0x1c0300 Jul  9 09:28 vote2
crw-rw----   1 grid       asmadmin   188 0x2d0200 Jul  9 09:28 vote3
crw-rw----   1 grid       asmadmin   188 0x220100 Jul  9 09:29 arch1
crw-rw----   1 grid       asmadmin   188 0x180100 Jul  9 09:29 data1

Even clean the disk header with dd...
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rdisk/ocr1 bs=8192 count=10240
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rdisk/ocr2 bs=8192 count=10240
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rdisk/ocr3 bs=8192 count=10240
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rdisk/vote1 bs=8192 count=10240
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rdisk/vote2 bs=8192 count=10240
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rdisk/vote3 bs=8192 count=10240
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rdisk/arch1 bs=8192 count=10240
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rdisk/data1 bs=8192 count=10240
Node1_

root@node1:/dev/rdisk# id grid
uid=1100(grid) gid=1000(oinstall) groups=1020(asmadmin),1021(asmdba)
root@node1:/dev/rdisk# id oracle
uid=1101(oracle) gid=1000(oinstall) groups=1021(asmdba),1031(dba),1032(oper)


Node2_

root@node2:/dev/rdsk# id grid
uid=1100(grid) gid=1000(oinstall) groups=1020(asmadmin),1021(asmdba)
root@node2:/dev/rdsk# id oracle
uid=1101(oracle) gid=1000(oinstall) groups=1031(dba),503(oper),1021(asmdba)

tried to list the disks with both the Disk Discovery Paths, "/dev/rdsk/*" and "/dev/rdisk/*" but still the disks are not shown in the OUI Utility.

Please let me know if I am missing something.

Thanks in Advance!
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