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Troubleshooting ASM Proxy instance startup

Recently, I had trouble starting ASM proxy instance on  one of the nodes in my  2 node flex cluster having nodes host01 and host02. As a result I could not access the volume I created on an ASM  diskgroup.  This post explains  how I resolved it.

While connected to host01, I created a volume VOL1 on DATA diskgroup with corresponding volume device /dev/asm/vol1-106 .

[grid@host01 root]$ asmcmd volcreate -G DATA -s 300m VOL1

[grid@host01 root]$ asmcmd volinfo -G DATA VOL1

Diskgroup Name: DATA

Volume Name: VOL1
Volume Device: /dev/asm/vol1-106
State: ENABLED
Size (MB): 320
Resize Unit (MB): 32
Redundancy: MIRROR
Stripe Columns: 4
Stripe Width (K): 128
Usage: ACFS
Mountpath:

I created  ACFS file system on the newly created volume

[root@host01 ~]# mkfs -t acfs /dev/asm/vol1-106

I also created corresponding mount point /mnt/acfsmounts/acfs1 on both the nodes in the cluster.

root@host01 ~]# mkdir -p /mnt/acfsmounts/acfs1

root@host02 ~]# mkdir -p /mnt/acfsmounts/acfs1

When I tried to mount the volume device, I could mount the volume device on host01 but not on host02 .

[root@host01 ~]#mount -t acfs /dev/asm/vol1-106 /mnt/acfsmounts/acfs1

[root@host01 ~]# mount | grep vol1

/dev/asm/vol1-106 on /mnt/acfsmounts/acfs1 type acfs (rw)

[root@host02 ~]# mount -t acfs /dev/asm/vol1-106 /mnt/acfsmounts/acfs1

mount.acfs: CLSU-00100: Operating System function: open64 failed with error data: 2
mount.acfs: CLSU-00101: Operating System error message: No such file or directory
mount.acfs: CLSU-00103: error location: OOF_1
mount.acfs: CLSU-00104: additional error information: open64 (/dev/asm/vol1-106)
mount.acfs: ACFS-02017: Failed to open volume /dev/asm/vol1-106. Verify the volume exists.

The corresponding volume device was visible on host01 but not on host02

[root@host01 ~]# cd /dev/asm
[root@host01 asm]# ls
vol1-106

[root@host02 ~]# cd /dev/asm
[root@host02 asm]# ls

Since ADVM / ACFS utilize an ASM Proxy instance in a flex cluster to access metadata from a local /  remote  ASM instance ,  I checked whether ASM Proxy instance was running on both the nodes and realized that whereas ASM Proxy instance was running on host01, it  was not running on host02

[root@host01 ~]# ps -elf | grep pmon | grep APX

0 S grid 27782 1 0 78 0 – 350502 – 10:09 ? 00:00:00 apx_pmon_+APX1

[root@host02 asm]# ps -elf | grep pmon | grep APX

[root@host01 ~]# srvctl status asm -proxy

ADVM proxy is running on node host01

[root@host01 ~]# crsctl stat res ora.proxy_advm -t
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Name Target State Server State details
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Local Resources
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ora.proxy_advm
ONLINE ONLINE host01 STABLE
ONLINE OFFLINE host02 STABLE

I tried to start ASM  proxy instance manually on host02

[grid@host02 ~]$ . oraenv
ORACLE_SID = [grid] ? +APX2
The Oracle base has been set to /u01/app/grid

[grid@host02 ~]$ sqlplus / as sysasm

SQL*Plus: Release 12.1.0.1.0 Production on Sat May 2 10:31:45 2015

Copyright (c) 1982, 2013, Oracle. All rights reserved.

Connected to an idle instance.

SQL> startup

ORA-00099: warning: no parameter file specified for ASMPROXY instance
ORA-00443: background process "VUBG" did not start

SQL> ho oerr ORA 00443

00443, 00000, "background process \"%s\" did not start"
// *Cause: The specified process did not start.
// *Action: Ensure that the executable image is in the correct place with
// the correct protections, and that there is enough memory.

I checked the memory allocated to VM for host02 – It was 1.5 GB as against 2.5 GB assigned to VM for host01. I  increased the memory of host02 to 2.5 GB and ASM proxy instance started automatically.

[root@host01 ~]# crsctl stat res ora.proxy_advm -t
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name Target State Server State details
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Local Resources
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ora.proxy_advm
ONLINE ONLINE host01 STABLE
ONLINE ONLINE host02 STABLE

Hope it helps!

References: 

Oracle documentation

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