OID 11g OID Restarting Over and Over "Please adjust the time for oidmon to resume its operations" "Time diff detected" (Doc ID 2461451.1)

Last updated on OCTOBER 02, 2019

Applies to:

Symptoms

OID unable to startup fully -- restarting constantly in a 2 node Cluster

oidmon log contains the following

[2018-10-16T10:14:44.934453-04:00] [OID] [NOTIFICATION:16] [] [OIDMON] [host: <OID_HOSTNAME1>] [pid: <PID> [tid: 0] Guardian: Please adjust the time for oidmon to resume its operations

[2018-10-16T10:14:54.962532-04:00] [OID] [NOTIFICATION:16] [] [OIDMON] [host: <OID_HOSTNAME1>] [pid: <PID>] [tid: 0] Guardian: Please adjust the time for oidmon to resume its operations

[2018-10-16T10:15:05.9702-04:00] [OID] [NOTIFICATION:16] [] [OIDMON] [host: <OID_HOSTNAME1>] [pid: <PID>] [tid: 0] Guardian: gslsgrRunGuardian: Verifying local time with other nodes

[2018-10-16T10:15:05.9797-04:00] [OID] [NOTIFICATION:16] [] [OIDMON] [host: <OID_HOSTNAME1>] [pid: <PID>] [tid: 0] Guardian: Time diff detected Local Time=20181016141505Z,<OID_HOSTNAME2> Time=20181016142053Z count=12

Changes

 In this case there was a disk failure and a restore was necessary.  Time was out of sync after the restore.

Cause

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