Take a look at http://www.ardentperf.com/pub/schneider-services.pdf (and indeed Tim's note). AFAIK everything Jeremy says about service creation in RAC applies to Oracle Restart as well. On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 1:03 AM, Chris Taylor < christopherdtaylor1994@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > When I add it to SERVICE_NAMES it seems to start correctly. > > Any reason not to do that? > > Chris > > Sent from my mobile device. Please ignore any typos. > > On Mar 6, 2013, at 4:21 PM, "Bobak, Mark" <Mark.Bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Right. You want to add a service via 'srvctl add service ....'. > > > > -Mark > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto: > oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tim Hall > > Subject: Re: DBMS_SERVICE create service/start_service and DB Restarts > doesn't start service > > > > I think what Michael McMullen was referring to is the big note at the > top of the CREATE_SERVICE procedure in the documentation that says you > shouldn't be using this in RAC or Restart configurations :) > > > > > http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/appdev.112/e25788/d_serv.htm#i1001480 > > > > > > -- > > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l