CRS-2549: Resource ‘ora.asmgroup’ cannot be placed on ‘rac1’ as it is not a valid candidate as per the placement policy

July 28, 2022 Leave a comment

Problem:

After failed JDK patching on the 1st node, we tried troubleshooting and saw that ASM was not able to start:

# su - grid
$ sqlplus / as sysasm
SQL> startup nomount;
ORA-32004: obsolete or deprecated parameter(s) specified for ASM instance
ORA-39511: Start of CRS resource for instance '223' failed with error:[CRS-2549: Resource 'ora.asmgroup' cannot be placed on 'rac1' as it is not a valid candidate as per the placement policy
CRS-0223: Resource 'ora.asm' has placement error.
clsr_start_resource:260 status:223
clsrapi_start_asm:start_asmdbs status:223

Reason:

Prepatch modified RESOURCE_USE_ENABLED=0 for rac1 node:

[grid@rac1 ~]$ crsctl stat server -f

NAME=rac1
MEMORY_SIZE=63465
CPU_COUNT=8
CPU_CLOCK_RATE=2499
CPU_HYPERTHREADING=1
CPU_EQUIVALENCY=1000
DEPLOYMENT=other
CONFIGURED_CSS_ROLE=hub
RESOURCE_USE_ENABLED=0
SERVER_LABEL=
PHYSICAL_HOSTNAME=
CSS_CRITICAL=no
CSS_CRITICAL_TOTAL=0
RESOURCE_TOTAL=0
SITE_NAME=stsfilive
STATE=ONLINE
ACTIVE_POOLS=Free
STATE_DETAILS=
ACTIVE_CSS_ROLE=hub

NAME=rac2
MEMORY_SIZE=63465
CPU_COUNT=8
CPU_CLOCK_RATE=2499
CPU_HYPERTHREADING=1
CPU_EQUIVALENCY=1000
DEPLOYMENT=other
CONFIGURED_CSS_ROLE=hub
RESOURCE_USE_ENABLED=1
….

Solution:

Connect to the failing node and run:

[root@rac1 ~]# crsctl set resource use 1

Start ASM.

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Flashgrid: Strict local was NOT disabled due to dependency errors!

July 28, 2022 Leave a comment

Problem:

# flashgrid-cluster strict-read-local-disable
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Unable to revert 'ora.orcl.db': saved data doesn't match current dependencies!

Expected 'hard(fg.OGG.DisksReady, fg.OCR.DisksReady, fg.MGMT.DisksReady, fg.GRID.DisksReady, fg.DATA2.DisksReady, fg.DATA1.DisksReady, fg.ARCH.DisksReady, global:uniform:ora.DATA2.dg, uniform:global:ora.GRID.dg, uniform:global:ora.OCR.dg, uniform:global:ora.MGMT.dg, uniform:global:ora.OGG.dg, global:uniform:ora.DATA1.dg) pullup(fg.OGG.DisksReady, fg.OCR.DisksReady, fg.MGMT.DisksReady, fg.GRID.DisksReady, fg.DATA2.DisksReady, fg.DATA1.DisksReady, fg.ARCH.DisksReady, global:ora.GRID.dg, global:ora.OCR.dg, global:ora.MGMT.dg, global:ora.OGG.dg, global:ora.DATA2.dg, global:ora.DATA1.dg) weak(type:ora.listener.type, global:type:ora.scan_listener.type, uniform:ora.ons, global:ora.gns, global:uniform:ora.ARCH.dg)', found 'hard(fg.OGG.DisksReady, fg.OCR.DisksReady, fg.MGMT.DisksReady, fg.GRID.DisksReady, fg.DATA2.DisksReady, fg.DATA1.DisksReady, fg.ARCH.DisksReady, global:uniform:ora.DATA2.dg, uniform:global:ora.GRID.dg, uniform:global:ora.OCR.dg, uniform:global:ora.MGMT.dg, uniform:global:ora.OGG.dg, global:uniform:ora.ARCH.dg, global:uniform:ora.DATA1.dg) pullup(fg.OGG.DisksReady, fg.OCR.DisksReady, fg.MGMT.DisksReady, fg.GRID.DisksReady, fg.DATA2.DisksReady, fg.DATA1.DisksReady, fg.ARCH.DisksReady, global:ora.GRID.dg, global:ora.OCR.dg, global:ora.MGMT.dg, global:ora.OGG.dg, global:ora.DATA2.dg, global:ora.ARCH.dg, global:ora.DATA1.dg) weak(type:ora.listener.type, global:type:ora.scan_listener.type, uniform:ora.ons, global:ora.gns)'

Strict local was NOT disabled due to dependency errors!

The dependency attribute for the database resource is different than expected.

Solution:

Copy text after Expected until found sections, and modify dependencies manually. This process does not require any downtime and is safe to run. Please note, that your dependencies should be different, so instead of copying the text below use the output from the previous command to modify accordingly:

# crsctl modify resource ora.orcl.db -attr "START_DEPENDENCIES='hard(fg.OGG.DisksReady, fg.OCR.DisksReady, fg.MGMT.DisksReady, fg.GRID.DisksReady, fg.DATA2.DisksReady, fg.DATA1.DisksReady, fg.ARCH.DisksReady, global:uniform:ora.DATA2.dg, uniform:global:ora.GRID.dg, uniform:global:ora.OCR.dg, uniform:global:ora.MGMT.dg, uniform:global:ora.OGG.dg, global:uniform:ora.DATA1.dg) pullup(fg.OGG.DisksReady, fg.OCR.DisksReady, fg.MGMT.DisksReady, fg.GRID.DisksReady, fg.DATA2.DisksReady, fg.DATA1.DisksReady, fg.ARCH.DisksReady, global:ora.GRID.dg, global:ora.OCR.dg, global:ora.MGMT.dg, global:ora.OGG.dg, global:ora.DATA2.dg, global:ora.DATA1.dg) weak(type:ora.listener.type, global:type:ora.scan_listener.type, uniform:ora.ons, global:ora.gns, global:uniform:ora.ARCH.dg)'" -unsupported

Disable read local:

# flashgrid-cluster strict-read-local-disable

I would not recommend disabling it, to reenable please run # flashgrid-cluster strict-read-local-enable

The reason we were disabling it was because of testing and we’ve found that the resource had a dependency error that was causing problems. So in case you encounter the same, you know how to solve it.

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