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

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.