RE: A nomount dbua instance sitting on our DR server?

  • From: <Jay.Miller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2014 14:47:07 +0000

Thanks Stefan! Can it just be shut down?


-----Original Message-----
From: Stefan Koehler [mailto:contact@xxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2014 10:38 AM
To: Miller, Jay; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: A nomount dbua instance sitting on our DR server?

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Hi Jay,
yes, you are right that this instance is related to DBUA (or DBCA). It is some 
kind of dummy instance to gather information for DBCA / DBUA. Just
check the trace files in $ORALCE_BASE/cfgtoollogs and you gonna see that 
instance name.

Best Regards
Stefan Koehler

Oracle performance consultant and researcher
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> Jay.Miller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx hat am 7. Oktober 2014 um 16:14 geschrieben:
>
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> I was getting ready for a storage refresh on one of our DR servers when I saw 
> a database instance I was unfamiliar with named DBUA2758156. From the
> name I assume it is something associated with the database upgrade assistant 
> but I have no idea what. It is in nomount mode, has been running for 5
> days and has an orapw and init.ora file (also with a timestamp from 5 days 
> ago) but no entry in /etc/oratab. Googling and searching metalink just
> turns up a bunch of DBUA documentation.
>
> I'm tempted to just try shutting it down but since I've never seen anything 
> like this before I opened an SR and thought I'd check if anyone here had
> seen anything similar.
>
> This is the init.ora file:
>
> db_name=DBUA2758
> db_unique_name=DBUA2758156
> shared_pool_size=128m
> cpu_count=1
> diagnostic_dest=/app/oracle/product/11.2.0.3/log
> _enable_NUMA_support=false
>
> Full set of background processes:
> zoracle 26744 1 0 Oct02 ? 00:00:58 ora_pmon_DBUA2758156
> zoracle 26748 1 0 Oct02 ? 00:01:03 ora_psp0_DBUA2758156
> zoracle 26752 1 1 Oct02 ? 01:48:58 ora_vktm_DBUA2758156
> zoracle 26758 1 0 Oct02 ? 00:00:12 ora_gen0_DBUA2758156
> zoracle 26762 1 0 Oct02 ? 00:00:17 ora_diag_DBUA2758156
> zoracle 26766 1 0 Oct02 ? 00:00:19 ora_dbrm_DBUA2758156
> zoracle 26770 1 0 Oct02 ? 00:03:06 ora_dia0_DBUA2758156
> zoracle 26774 1 0 Oct02 ? 00:00:12 ora_mman_DBUA2758156
> zoracle 26778 1 0 Oct02 ? 00:00:13 ora_dbw0_DBUA2758156
> zoracle 26782 1 0 Oct02 ? 00:00:12 ora_lgwr_DBUA2758156
> zoracle 26787 1 0 Oct02 ? 00:00:17 ora_ckpt_DBUA2758156
> zoracle 26791 1 0 Oct02 ? 00:00:07 ora_smon_DBUA2758156
> zoracle 26795 1 0 Oct02 ? 00:00:05 ora_reco_DBUA2758156
> zoracle 26799 1 0 Oct02 ? 00:00:33 ora_mmon_DBUA2758156
> zoracle 26803 1 0 Oct02 ? 00:00:55 ora_mmnl_DBUA2758156
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