RE: stale ASM alert logs

I thought about switching a logfile, which on do on DB, but can't do on ASM and 
then got side-tracked. Thanks for the suggestion. I tried to just create an 
alias, made a typo, and bingo, message in the log. ASM is just chugging along 
and not needing to write anything. 

Thanks everyone!

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From: Herring Dave - dherri [mailto:Dave.Herring@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2012 1:19 PM
To: Walker, Jed S; Guillermo Alan Bort; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: stale ASM alert logs

You could try performing an operation that writes a message to the alert log.  
Issue a rebalance operation on a diskgroup and if you don't want that to 
continue issue it again with "power 0", which will stop the operation.  Both 
commands will get logged to ASM's alert log, along with other ARB status info.

I know there are other commands that may be "safer" to run against production 
but I can't think of any at the moment, at least for ASM.  There are packages 
to write to the alert log but obviously they don't exist for ASM.

DAVID HERRING
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From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Walker, Jed S
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 2:16 PM
To: Guillermo Alan Bort; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: stale ASM alert logs

Good thinking but that isn't it. I did "show parameter background" and it is 
the directory I'm checking in. It doesn't appear the instance itself thinks it 
is somewhere else.
Anyone have other ideas?

SQL> show parameter background

NAME                                 TYPE        VALUE
------------------------------------ ----------- ------------------------------
background_core_dump                 string      partial
background_dump_dest                 string      /oracle/grid/diag/asm/+asm/+AS
                                                 M1/trace
SQL> exit
Disconnected from Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.3.0 - 
64bit Production With the Real Application Clusters and Automatic Storage 
Management options
(oracle) node-01:+ASM1:/home/oracle
 ->cd /oracle/grid/diag/asm/+asm/+ASM1/trace
(oracle) node-01:+ASM1:/oracle/grid/diag/asm/+asm/+ASM1/trace
 ->ll -rt
total 512
-rw-r----- 1 oracle dba 479574 May 11 05:26 alert_+ASM1.log
-rw-r----- 1 oracle dba   1302 Jul 20 17:07 +ASM1_rbal_27847.trm
-rw-r----- 1 oracle dba  21185 Jul 20 17:07 +ASM1_rbal_27847.trc
-rw-r----- 1 oracle dba     71 Jul 25 16:10 +ASM1_lmon_27827.trm
-rw-r----- 1 oracle dba    934 Jul 25 16:10 +ASM1_lmon_27827.trc



From: alanbort@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:alanbort@xxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Guillermo 
Alan Bort
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 12:38 PM
To: Walker, Jed S
Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: stale ASM alert logs

have you checked the background_dump_dest parameter in the ASM instance? are 
you sure you are looking at the correct alert log? sometimes I've seen ASM 
loosing the pfile and going back to default configs, which include the alert 
log location.

hth
Alan.-

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