I hope you have already tried this . If not add the asm sid name of +ASM to the listener.ora, start the listener, see that the u can connect to this asm instance through tnsname and then run dbca. On 9/28/07, Herring Dave - dherri <Dave.Herring@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Folks, > > I'm trying to create a database on my RAC cluster with ASM. This is on > 10.2.0.3 and RHEL4 64bit. ASM is up and running on both nodes (only > 2-node cluster) and I've got valid diskgroups in each. Checking crsstat it > shows all services are up, as in ASM, LISTENER, gsd, ons, vip on both nodes. > > Now for creating a database. I thought dbca would be the way. But in the > process, I believe step 7, I'm asked for the storage to use. I pick ASM, > then "next". At this point I get the message: "DBCA could not startup the > ASM instance configured on this node. To proceed with database creation > using ASM you ...". > > I can't figure out why dbca can't see my ASM instance. I've tried setting > ORACLE_SID=, ORACLE_SID=+ASM, ORACLE_SID=+ASM1 (local instance on this > server of ASM), all run out of $ORACLE_HOME/bin, not > $ORA_ASM_HOME/bin. Each try gives me the same error. > > Any clue how to get dbca see your existing ASM instances? Is there any > way to find out what exactly is failing behind the scenes? I've set tracing > for dbca (-DTRACING.ENABLED=true -DTRACING.LEVEL=2 in the last line of > dbca), but that doesn't output anything after first starting up. > > Any help would be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks. > > Dave > > > ___________________________________ > David C. Herring, DBA| A c x i o m Delivery Center Organization > 630-944-4762office |630-430-5988 wireless|630-944-4989 fax > ************************************************************************* > The information contained in this communication is confidential, is > intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may be > legally privileged. > > If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are > hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this > communication is strictly prohibited. > > If you have received this communication in error, please resend this > communication to the sender and delete the original message or any copy > of it from your computer system. > > Thank you. > ************************************************************************* > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- thanks Arun