What is an Oracle Service

Oracle services were a feature introduced in Oracle 10g. Their function is to simplify workload management by allowing you to group applications that share traits such as thresholds, priorities and attributes. The Oracle database is presented as a service and so you always have at least one service running. It is good practice to create …

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Using files on a shared drive as disks for ASM (on RedHat Linux)

Firstly, you need to create files padded to the required disk size. So if you want 4 1Gb files you could execute the below commands on shared storage: dd if=/dev/zero of=/SHAREDDISK/asmDisk1-1 bs=1024k count=1000 dd if=/dev/zero of=/SHAREDDISK/asmDisk1-2 bs=1024k count=1000 dd if=/dev/zero of=/SHAREDDISK/asmDisk1-3 bs=1024k count=1000 dd if=/dev/zero of=/SHAREDDISK/asmDisk1-4 bs=1024k count=1000 dd creates your file, ‘if’=/dev/zero gets null …

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Error PRVF-5472 during an Oracle Grid infrastructure install

This is a problem with the config of the NTP daemon (ntpd) which synchronizes time across the cluster. The specific error is to do with the boot time behavior of the daemon and needing the ‘Slewing’ option enabled. If you need to enable slewing, you can do it by typing ‘ntpd -x’, however, the grid …

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