Installing and Configuring Oracle Clusterware

The installation procedure for Oracle clusterware (Grid Infrastructure) is well documented in Oracle documentation. This post contains the titles of MOS documents that will be useful before, during, or after Oracle clusterware installation.

MOS Oracle Account is required to access the documents listed in this post.

Network and Network Interfaces Validation

How to Validate Network and Name Resolution Setup for the Clusterware and RAC (Doc ID 1054902.1)

Configure/Reconfigure

Attention – GridSetup.sh for 12.2

How to Configure or Re-configure Grid Infrastructure With config.sh/config.bat (Doc ID 1354258.1)

Multicast Test Script

Look for mcasttest.pl-tool in the MOS document:

Grid Infrastructure Startup During Patching, Install or Upgrade May Fail Due to Multicasting Requirement (Doc ID 1212703.1)

Create/Recreate GIMR database (MGMTDB)

MDBUtil: GI Management Repository configuration tool (Doc ID 2065175.1)

Install OS Packages

For convenience

yum -y install xorg-x11-utils  (xdpyinfo (DISPLAY issue with mobaxterm)

yum -y install psmisc (for opatching if required)

Add First Node

Unizip Oracle sw or gold image in $GRID_HOME (owned by and permissions set for grid user)

(as grid user)

$GRID_HOME/GridSetup.sh

Add second node

After install of first node:
(as grid user)
$GRID_HOME/bin/cluvfy stage -pre nodeadd -n <node2> -fixup -fixupnoexec -verbose

Trace/Log Files

$GRID_BASE/diag/crs/<host>/crs/trace

alert.log
gipcd.trc
ocssd.trc
evmd.trc
gpnpd.trc
mdnsd.trc

$GRID_BASE/crsdata/<host>/crsconfig/

Useful Commands

/oracle/grid/12.2.0/bin/crsctl stat res -t -init -w "((TARGET != ONLINE) or (STATE != ONLINE))"