ASM Aliases - Cannot find a Cross Reference - SYS_CONNECT_BY_PATH?

  • From: David Barbour <david.barbour1@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: oracle-l mailing list <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 16:56:43 -0500

May just sort of be up the proverbial creek on this. I cannot tie together
any data file info from ASM to the alias registered in the database
controlfile.

For instance, I know in the +S00DATA05 diskgroup, the aliases that were
dropped were +S00DATA05/S00/PSAPCOEPD.DATA11 and
+S00DATA05/S00/PSAPCOEPD.DATA12. I know we've got two OMF files in the
diskgroup - +S00DATA05/S00/DATAFILE/PSAPCOEPD.373.883759173 and
+S00DATA05/S00/DATAFILE/PSAPCOEPD.358.883759173.

But how to tell which is which? I suppose I could guess. Got a 50/50
chance here.

Trying to figure out if perhaps sys_connect_by_path could be of use.

This is what the controlfile shows:


1 select file_name from dba_data_files where tablespace_name =
'PSAPCOEPD'
2* order by file_name
SQL> /

FILE_NAME
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+S00DATA01/psapcoepd.data01
+S00DATA01/psapcoepd.data02
+S00DATA01/psapcoepd.data03
+S00DATA01/psapcoepd.data21
+S00DATA01/psapcoepd.data26
+S00DATA02/psapcoepd.data04
+S00DATA02/psapcoepd.data10
+S00DATA02/psapcoepd.data22
+S00DATA02/psapcoepd.data27
+S00DATA02/s00/datafile/psapcoepd.791.883760245
+S00DATA03/psapcoepd.data05

FILE_NAME
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+S00DATA03/psapcoepd.data06
+S00DATA03/psapcoepd.data23
+S00DATA04/psapcoepd.data07
+S00DATA04/psapcoepd.data08
+S00DATA04/psapcoepd.data09
+S00DATA05/psapcoepd.data11
+S00DATA05/psapcoepd.data12
+S00DATA06/psapcoepd.data13
+S00DATA06/psapcoepd.data14
+S00DATA06/psapcoepd.data15
+S00DATA06/s00/datafile/psapcoepd.304.883760117

FILE_NAME
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+S00DATA07/psapcoepd.data16
+S00DATA07/psapcoepd.data17
+S00DATA07/psapcoepd.data18
+S00DATA07/psapcoepd.data24
+S00DATA09/psapcoepd.data19
+S00DATA09/psapcoepd.data20
+S00DATA10/psapcoepd.data25
+S00DATA10/s00/datafile/psapcoepd.307.883758635

30 rows selected.

Here's what I can find in ASM:

+S00DATA01/S00/DATAFILE/PSAPCOEPD.657.883758977
2.1475E+10 2.1477E+10 DATAFILE 30-JUN-2015 16:36:17
S00DATA01 Y
+S00DATA01/S00/DATAFILE/PSAPCOEPD.658.883759017
2.1475E+10 2.1477E+10 DATAFILE 30-JUN-2015 16:36:57
S00DATA01 Y
+S00DATA01/S00/DATAFILE/PSAPCOEPD.659.883759047
2.1475E+10 2.1477E+10 DATAFILE 30-JUN-2015 16:37:27
S00DATA01 Y
+S00DATA01/S00/DATAFILE/PSAPCOEPD.660.883759409
2.1475E+10 2.1477E+10 DATAFILE 30-JUN-2015 16:43:29
S00DATA01 Y
+S00DATA01/S00/DATAFILE/PSAPCOEPD.661.883759451
2.1475E+10 2.1477E+10 DATAFILE 30-JUN-2015 16:44:10
S00DATA01 Y
+S00DATA02/S00/DATAFILE/PSAPCOEPD.782.883759077
2.1475E+10 2.1477E+10 DATAFILE 30-JUN-2015 16:37:56
S00DATA02 Y
+S00DATA02/S00/DATAFILE/PSAPCOEPD.783.883759173
2.1475E+10 2.1477E+10 DATAFILE 30-JUN-2015 16:39:32
S00DATA02 Y
+S00DATA02/S00/DATAFILE/PSAPCOEPD.784.883759411
2.1475E+10 2.1477E+10 DATAFILE 30-JUN-2015 16:43:30
S00DATA02 Y
+S00DATA02/S00/DATAFILE/PSAPCOEPD.791.883760245
1.5032E+10 1.5034E+10 DATAFILE 30-JUN-2015 16:57:24
S00DATA02 Y
+S00DATA02/S00/DATAFILE/PSAPCOEPD.794.883760385
1.2885E+10 1.2887E+10 DATAFILE 30-JUN-2015 16:59:44
S00DATA02 Y
+S00DATA03/S00/DATAFILE/PSAPCOEPD.814.883759087
2.1475E+10 2.1477E+10 DATAFILE 30-JUN-2015 16:38:06
S00DATA03 Y
+S00DATA03/S00/DATAFILE/PSAPCOEPD.815.883759087
2.1475E+10 2.1477E+10 DATAFILE 30-JUN-2015 16:38:07
S00DATA03 Y
+S00DATA03/S00/DATAFILE/PSAPCOEPD.816.883759421
2.1475E+10 2.1477E+10 DATAFILE 30-JUN-2015 16:43:41
S00DATA03 Y
+S00DATA04/S00/DATAFILE/PSAPCOEPD.705.883759117
2.1475E+10 2.1477E+10 DATAFILE 30-JUN-2015 16:38:36
S00DATA04 Y
+S00DATA04/S00/DATAFILE/PSAPCOEPD.706.883759117
2.1475E+10 2.1477E+10 DATAFILE 30-JUN-2015 16:38:37
S00DATA04 Y
+S00DATA04/S00/DATAFILE/PSAPCOEPD.707.883759123
2.1475E+10 2.1477E+10 DATAFILE 30-JUN-2015 16:38:42
S00DATA04 Y
+S00DATA05/S00/DATAFILE/PSAPCOEPD.358.883759173
2.1475E+10 2.1477E+10 DATAFILE 30-JUN-2015 16:39:32
S00DATA05 Y
+S00DATA05/S00/DATAFILE/PSAPCOEPD.373.883759173
2.1475E+10 2.1477E+10 DATAFILE 30-JUN-2015 16:39:32
S00DATA05 Y
+S00DATA06/S00/DATAFILE/PSAPCOEPD.304.883760117
1.6106E+10 1.6108E+10 DATAFILE 30-JUN-2015 16:55:16
S00DATA06 Y
+S00DATA06/S00/DATAFILE/PSAPCOEPD.491.883759191
2.1475E+10 2.1477E+10 DATAFILE 30-JUN-2015 16:39:50
S00DATA06 Y
+S00DATA06/S00/DATAFILE/PSAPCOEPD.492.883759229
2.1475E+10 2.1477E+10 DATAFILE 30-JUN-2015 16:40:28
S00DATA06 Y
+S00DATA06/S00/DATAFILE/PSAPCOEPD.514.883759237
2.1475E+10 2.1477E+10 DATAFILE 30-JUN-2015 16:40:37
S00DATA06 Y
+S00DATA07/S00/DATAFILE/PSAPCOEPD.339.883759265
2.1475E+10 2.1477E+10 DATAFILE 30-JUN-2015 16:41:04
S00DATA07 Y
+S00DATA07/S00/DATAFILE/PSAPCOEPD.340.883759293
2.1475E+10 2.1477E+10 DATAFILE 30-JUN-2015 16:41:32
S00DATA07 Y
+S00DATA07/S00/DATAFILE/PSAPCOEPD.341.883759361
2.1475E+10 2.1477E+10 DATAFILE 30-JUN-2015 16:42:40
S00DATA07 Y
+S00DATA07/S00/DATAFILE/PSAPCOEPD.342.883759439
2.1475E+10 2.1477E+10 DATAFILE 30-JUN-2015 16:43:59
S00DATA07 Y
+S00DATA09/S00/DATAFILE/PSAPCOEPD.335.883759361
2.1475E+10 2.1477E+10 DATAFILE 30-JUN-2015 16:42:40
S00DATA09 Y
+S00DATA09/S00/DATAFILE/PSAPCOEPD.336.883759409
2.1475E+10 2.1477E+10 DATAFILE 30-JUN-2015 16:43:29
S00DATA09 Y
+S00DATA10/S00/DATAFILE/PSAPCOEPD.307.883758635
2.1475E+10 2.1477E+10 DATAFILE 30-JUN-2015 16:30:34
S00DATA10 Y
+S00DATA10/S00/DATAFILE/PSAPCOEPD.312.883759451
2.1475E+10 2.1477E+10 DATAFILE 30-JUN-2015 16:44:10
S00DATA10 Y

On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 12:58 PM, David Barbour <david.barbour1@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Oracle 11.2.0.3, RHEL 6.6

Several Oracle ASM aliases were removed using the ALTER DISKGROUP DROP
ALIAS command.

Now the backups on the database are failing because the controlfile is
still using the alias name.

Any suggestions?

The database is running fine because the underlying OMF files are there.
So somewhere there's a link. I need to match the OMF ASM file with the
database alias(es). If I could find the link, then I could take the
tablespace offline and run the set newname in Rman - I think.


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