Thanks, Kamus. Yes, the auxiliary davidh instance is missing from ASM's v$asm_client. Our testing (semi-prod) instances oracs11/12 of the 2-node RAC are the only ASM clients. $ . oraenv ORACLE_SID = [oracs12] ? +ASM2 $ sqlplus / as sysdba SQL> select DB_NAME,INSTANCE_NAME,STATUS from V$ASM_CLIENT; DB_NAME ------------------------ INSTANCE_NAME --------------------------------- STATUS ----------------------- oracs1 oracs12 CONNECTED oracs1 oracs12 CONNECTED $ . oraenv ORACLE_SID = [+ASM2] ? davidh $ sqlplus / as sysdba SQL> select GROUP_NUMBER,NAME,STATE from v$asm_diskgroup; GROUP_NUMBER NAME ------------ ----------------- STATE --------------------------------- 1 DATA MOUNTED 2 FRA MOUNTED So how do I make davidh a client of the ASM instance? I already modified the listener (run from ASM's Oracle_Home) config file and reloaded listener so the davidh services are shown (I changed the domain name below): $ lsnrctl service | grep davidh #run with oraenv set to +ASM2 Service "davidh" has 1 instance(s). Instance "davidh", status UNKNOWN, has 1 handler(s) for this service... Service "davidh.example.com" has 1 instance(s). Instance "davidh", status BLOCKED, has 1 handler(s) for this service... Service "davidh_XPT.example.com" has 1 instance(s). Instance "davidh", status BLOCKED, has 1 handler(s) for this service... Here's the old note I'm following: http://yong321.freeshell.org/oranotes/RmanCreateHistoricalSubsetData.txt I don't see anything I do differently than I did before on another server. Yong Huang --- On Sun, 12/12/10, Leyi Zhang (Kamus) <kamusis@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, Yong > > We can notice it's channel ORA_AUX_DISK_1 raised the error, > It means > the new instance davidh cannot access the ASM instance. > > Would you please run command as below: > > $ export ORACLE_SID=+ASM2 > SQL> select DB_NAME,INSTANCE_NAME,STATUS from > V$ASM_CLIENT; > > $ export ORACLE_SID=davidh > SQL> select GROUP_NUMBER,NAME,STATE from > v$asm_diskgroup; > > Check if "davidh" DB_NAME is in ASM client and status is > "CONNECTED"? > > -- > Kamus <kamusis@xxxxxxxxx> > > Visit my blog for more : http://www.dbform.com > Join ACOUG: http://www.acoug.org > > > > On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Yong Huang <yong321@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > channel ORA_AUX_DISK_1 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l