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FAQ ASMLIB CONFIGURE,VERIFY, TROUBLESHOOT (Doc ID 359266.1)

Last updated on DECEMBER 24, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 10.1.0.2 to 11.1.0.7 [Release 10.1 to 11.1]
Gen 1 Exadata Cloud at Customer (Oracle Exadata Database Cloud Machine) - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Cloud Exadata Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Goal

This document includes guidelines to diagnose ASMLIB problems, like installation, restore of missing files, collection of information during  error diagnostics.  

Solution

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In this Document
Goal
Solution
 1. ASMLIB INSTALLATION
 2. Error Device "/dev/sdg" is not a partition when creating the ASMLIB device
 3. How to identify the physical disk bound to the ASMLIB disk.
 4. ASM disks are not discovered when using asm_diskstring='ORCL:*' 
 5. Starting ASM instance report errors ORA-604, ORA-15183, ORA-15180 after deleting file libasm.so 
 6. ASM instance is not discovering disks when asm_diskstring is 'ORCL:*' 
 7. ASMLIB disks are bound to the individual path device and not to the pseudo device created by the multipath software
 8. ASMLIB Logging
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