To enable VIP tracing, add the following in $CRS_HOME/bin/racgvip: _USR_ORA_DEBUG=1 export _USR_ORA_DEBUG I *believe *you'll find the resulting trace in $CRS_HOME/racg/dump/ora.*nodename*.vip.trc The output is cryptic, of course, but if the VIP is timing out, you'll see it. -Mark On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:53 AM, Yechiel Adar <adar666@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Where can I find the VIP trace file. > My co-worker did an upgrade last night, on windows 64 bit from oracle > 10.2.0.3. to 10.2.0.4 + the last CPU. > I got called at midnight because the VIP did not work after the upgrade. > > When he went to bed, they changed the tnsnames to use physical address > instead of vip and that is the way it is working now. > > Adar Yechiel > Rechovot, Israel > > > > Mark Strickland wrote: > > This sounds kinda similar to what happened to us after upgrading from > 10.1.0.3 to 10.1.0.5. From my posting in 2006 about our Upgrade-from-Hell " > //www.freelists.org/post/oracle-l/Upgrade-from-92-to-102-NONRac-Basic-Steps,2 > ": > > *[Oracle Support] was able to identify the cause of the problem in the VIP > trace file. It was occasionally timing out while checking the > > default gateway. The timeout threshold was 2 seconds and the engineer had us > change that to 10. * > > > Perhaps this will help. > > -Mark > >