Re: listener... which home?

  • From: Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: cicciuxdba@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 09:30:44 -0600

The only disadvantage is that when the listener from the ASM home is down,
you cant connect to any DB's on the server.  But thats pretty minor.  Oracle
best practices do recommend that configuration, that is a single listener
from the ASM home.

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Guillermo Alan Bort
<cicciuxdba@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> hi guys,
>
>  so, we have two homes in a server. One is /u01/app/asm, obviously this is
> the ASM home. it's an 11g home as well. Then we have the
> /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0 home which is the DB home. There is a single
> DB in this server. The listener is running from /u01/app/asm/bin/tnslsnr....
> which to me is odd. Is there any reason you can think of for this? (I
> already asked the previous owner of this server and they replied it was "by
> design"). I can see some benefits (like in theory you don't need to bring
> down the listener for $OH patching... and you usually have the ASM home in
> the latest patch/version...
>
>   what cons do you find in this?
>
> cheers
> Alan.-
>



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