Tag: Oracle DBA

SOA_SERVER ( Managed Server ) Take too Long time to Start/Restart

Posted on by Osama Mustafa in Fusion Middleware
On the weblogic console when trying to start managed Server it’s take too long time to start in my case it’s SOA_SERVER, almost 25 min only to start, which is not correct . to avoid this problem you need to follow the below steps simple but effective :-

Under Java Home ( That Used by Weblogic ) :-

cd /u01/app/fmw/jdk/jre/lib/security 

There’s file called Java.Security 

Edit this File using any Editor ( vi for example ).

Search for the following line :-

securerandom.source=file:/dev/urandom

And Change it to :-

securerandom.source=file:/dev/./urandom

Or Another way add the below line to startup script in weblogic :-

-Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/./urandom

Hope this will solve your problem.

Thank you
Osama Mustafa

Extend LVM Disk Linux

Posted on by Osama Mustafa in Operating system
This Article Will Describe step by step how to extend LVM Disk On Linux :-

1- After adding New Harddisk to the server you have to ReScan The Scsi using 

echo “- – -” > /sys/class/scsi_host/host?/scan

? :- Depend on you host number. 

2-  Use Fdisk to create new partition.

>fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 107.3 GB, 107374182400 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 13054 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
/dev/sda2              14       13054   104751832+  8e  Linux LVM
Disk /dev/sdb: 10.7 GB, 10737418240 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1305 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk /dev/sdb doesn’t contain a valid partition table

 Check the below :-

#fdisk /dev/sdb
Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklab el
Building a new DOS disklabel. Changes will remain in memory only,
until you decide to write them. After that, of course, the previous
content won’t be recoverable.

The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1305.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite)

Command (m for help): n
Command action
e extended
p primary partition (1-4)
p
Partition number (1-4): 1
First cylinder (1-1305, default 1):
Using default value 1
Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-1305, default 1305):
Using default value 1305

Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered!

Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.

WARNING: Re-reading the partition table failed with error 16: Device or resource busy.
The kernel still uses the old table.
The new table will be used at the next reboot.
Syncing disks.

3-  Lets start increasing :-

pvcreate /dev/sdb1
Writing physical volume data to disk “/dev/sdb1”
Physical volume “/dev/sdb1” successfully created

vgdisplay
— Volume group —
VG Name Oracle
System ID
Format lvm2
Metadata Areas 1
Metadata Sequence No 4
VG Access read/write
VG Status resizable
MAX LV 0
Cur LV 3
Open LV 3
Max PV 0
Cur PV 1
Act PV 1
VG Size 99.88 GB
PE Size 32.00 MB
Total PE 3196
Alloc PE / Size 3196 / 99.88 GB
Free PE / Size 0 / 0
VG UUID MZ04D3-jZLy-0BWi-2WSP-oi9E-hBkl-e3a08d

vgextend Oracle /dev/sdb1  Volume group “Oracle” successfully extended

 pvscan
  PV /dev/sda2   VG Oracle   lvm2 [99.88 GB / 0    free]
  PV /dev/sdb1   VG Oracle   lvm2 [9.97 GB / 9.97 GB free]
  Total: 2 [109.84 GB] / in use: 2 [109.84 GB] / in no VG: 0 [0   ]

###

lvdisplay
— Logical volume —
LV Name /dev/Oracle/LogVol00
VG Name Oracle
LV UUID wKMZ16-LHsc-ktsc-3dTT-ieiq-pEfT-tODhqc
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 1
LV Size 9.75 GB
Current LE 312
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
– currently set to 256
Block device 253:0

— Logical volume —
LV Name /dev/Oracle/LogVol02
VG Name Oracle
LV UUID UabZCO-G8ID-dh1a-xv6t-Ss4O-QqEx-fnIy5g
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 1
LV Size 82.34 GB
Current LE 2635
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
– currently set to 256
Block device 253:1

— Logical volume —
LV Name /dev/Oracle/LogVol01
VG Name Oracle
LV UUID 78Y3bv-UZZI-Iu2w-gAyD-HXe1-Fx25-gmGuKn
LV Write Access read/write
LV Status available
# open 1
LV Size 7.78 GB
Current LE 249
Segments 1
Allocation inherit
Read ahead sectors auto
– currently set to 256
Block device 253:2

Now Let’s Extend :-

lvextend /dev/Oracle/LogVol00 /dev/sdb1 Extending logical volume LogVol00 to 19.72 GB
Logical volume LogVol00 successfully resized

 Finally :-

resize2fs /dev/Oracle/LogVol00resize2fs 1.39 (29-May-2006)
Filesystem at /dev/Oracle/LogVol00 is mounted on /; on-line resizing required
Performing an on-line resize of /dev/Oracle/LogVol00 to 5169152 (4k) blocks.

Notes :

  1. The Red Color for Command Line.
  2. The Brown Color For necessary Output. 
  3. /dev/Oracle/LogVol00 it’s the name for LVM Disk.
  4. /dev/sdb1 disk that we created using fdisk.

Thank you
Osama Mustafa

ORA-01031: insufficient privileges On ASM – Grid Infrastructure 11gR2

Posted on by Osama Mustafa in Database
Today like any other day started with customer call , Telling me There is problem on Grid infrastructure after restarting both node, They change heartbeat from cables to connected on switch after i told them to do this.

The Error in the logs like the  below :-
CRS-5011:Check of resource “+ASM” failed: details at “(:CLSN00006:)”

Node #2 was running without any problem , the issue was with node #1 and nothing changed recently.

The Error in Node #1 :-

crsctl start cluster

PRCR-1079 : Failed to start resource ora.asm
ORA-01031: insufficient privileges
CRS-5017: The resource action “ora.asm start” encountered the following error:
ORA-01031: insufficient privileges
. For details refer to “(:CLSN00107:)” in “/u01/app/grid/11.2.0.4/log/lux335/agent/ohasd/oraagent_oracle/oraagent_oracle.log”.

as you see from the above error “ORA-01031: insufficient privileges” i was running this command as root.
After check node #1 the solution so simple :-

Under $GRID_HOME/network/admin
vi sqlnet.ora

SQLNET.AUTHENTICATION_SERVICES = (NONE)

which is wrong and to be changed to the following value :-

SQLNET.AUTHENTICATION_SERVICES = (NTS)

Reboot Node #1 and everything running successfully.

Thank you
Osama mustafa

Oracle Solaris 11.2 Launch On 29/04

Posted on by Osama Mustafa in Operating system
Today 29/04/2014 Oracle Launched new version of operating system Solaris 11.2, This Version will contain significant Features and it’s fully supported for Cloud

Some of the new features :-

  • Reduce management effort via OpenStack integration
  • Further increase the flexibility of Solaris system virtualization
  • Add unique software-defined networking (SDN) capabilities
  • Simplify the creation of private and public clouds

The Link for the Event Here.

Thank you 
Osama mustafa

Oracle Database 12c Backup and Recovery Survival Guide

Posted on by Osama Mustafa in Others
Oracle 12c Released in July 2013, and with every release for new oracle database version we expect huge amount of book to be released also, Books Talking about new Features, Administration, RAC, Data Guard,and finally Backup and Recovery.

When I am looking  for Oracle book it should have three Main things at least :

  • Description ( Table Of Content )
  • Examples for the new features.
  • Cover The specific topic and cover it so well.
Recently i received an email from Packt Publishing WebSite Here to review A book for Oracle 12c Related to Backup and Recovery, the Book Title

            ” Oracle Database 12c Backup and Recovery Survival Guide”

The above book written  by two oracle experts

  • Francisco Munoz ( Oracle ACE Director )
  • Aman Sharma ( Oracle ACE )
And Trust me when i am saying i need another post to talk about these two author. the books contain an amazing information for every DBA, it’s not necessary to be an expert to buy this book because they already covered everything from beginning with Examples or should i say with Lot of examples, what i would say here i recommended this book because it’s contain best practice for Backup and Recovery Covered by two Oracle Experts.
Description for Table Of Content :

Chapter 1: Understanding the Basics of Backup and Recovery 
First Chapter describe the Backup basic, why the backup is very important and what is the most common issue 

Chapter 2: NOLOGGING Operations
I have to say this chapter give me new idea about Nologging, and describe Best Solution for Nologging and Logging Operating in Database. 
Chapter 3: What is New in 12c 
Discuss 12c New Feature Related to Backup and Recovery ( RMAN,Datapump .. ) and simple description about multitenant Features and Architecture. 
Chapter 4: User-managed Backup and Recovery
Describe All kind of backup,Offline,cold and hot with Examples and Description for these example.

Chapter 5: Understanding RMAN and Simple Backups
This Chapter Describe RMAN Architecture & RMAN Concept Backup and how to use RMAN with oracle 12c,how to backup Controlfile, Spfile and Archive log,how to use Fast Incremental Backup. 
Chapter 6: Configuring and Recovering with RMAN
This Chapter Covered how to configure database for backup and recovery and how to configure RMAN for Backup, All the configuration covered by Examples and Lot Of scenarios.Configuration for Compression backup,snapshot and authentication for RMAN.

Chapter 7: RMAN Reporting and Catalog Management
From the Name of this chapter it’s covered RMAN Catalog and Report command and List command to get query and check backup.

Chapter 8: RMAN Troubleshooting and Tuning

This is Excellent Chapter for All DBA it’s Contains information how to troubleshoot RMAN,Tune RMAN, and how to monitor RMAN Session , Useful for Every DBA.
Chapter 9: Understanding Data Pump
This Chapter talking about Data Pump Architecture and Examples how to move data use data pump.
Chapter 10: Advanced Data Pump
If you want to move to next level and Increase your knowledge about Data pump , this chapter contains topics every DBA needs such as create small copies of production, create database in different file Structure, Moving Object from one table space to another and other excellent topics.

Chapter 11: OEM12c and SQL Developer
Enterprise manager 12c and Sql Developer friends for DBA, and Have been used started to used by DBA’s  All the above chapter using the command Line, but this one describe how to use these Two Tools to Configure backup and monitor backup, using export/import with EM12c.

About the Author :

Francisco Munoz Alvarez 
has over two decades of experience in consulting, analysis, support, implementation, and migration of Oracle products. He is also an expert in most phases of a database life cycle, for example, development, stabilization, security, backup and recovery, tuning, installations, and data warehouse (ETL) with excellent implementation and support methodologies. He is a popular speaker at many Oracle conferences around the world.

Aman Sharma 
is an Oracle Database consultant and instructor. He holds a Master’s degree in Computer Applications and has been working with Oracle Database for over a decade. His main focus is to understand how Oracle Database works internally. Besides the core database, he has a very strong knowledge of Linux, Solaris, Oracle RAC, Data Guard, RMAN, Oracle Exadata and Oracle Enterprise Manager.


You can Order the Book Now :

Finally i would thank Francisco & Aman for this amazing Book.

Thank you 
Osama Mustafa


Configure Linux NFS File System

Posted on by Osama Mustafa in Operating system
NFS : Network File System

Before Start Configure NFS you have to Understand When to use it ? and What is it ?

NFS file system usually read from Source Called Server , If this server goes down, it will not be available for the other resource, From this we understand that i should configure NFS On both Side Server and Client.

Read More About it Here.

Note : 

Server IP : 192.168.1.100
Client IP : 192.168.1.101

In this Blog I will Use NFSV4 

1- You need to install two Package ( as root user )
**nfs-ultis-lib
**portmap ( if you are asking nfs4 this is not needed anymore )

2-  As Root Run the below Command to Start nfs Serivces :

[root@TEST share]# /etc/init.d/nfs start
Starting NFS services:                                     [  OK  ]
Starting NFS quotas:                                       [  OK  ]
Starting NFS mountd:                                      [  OK  ]
Stopping RPC idmapd:                                    [  OK  ]
Starting RPC idmapd:                                      [  OK  ]
Starting NFS daemon:                                     [  OK  ]

3- Create folder under /u01/app/shared , give permission to oracle and chmod 775 
4- on NFS Server ( you will own the folder ) , vi /etc/exports add the below line :

/u01/app/shared [Client-IP] (rw,sync,no_root_squash) 

5- NFS Server is done , Go to NFS Client ( Node 2 )  as root user run the below command :

#/etc/init.d/nfs start
#showmount -e 192.168.1.101

The Output Will be like the below :

Export list for 192.168.1.100:
/u01/app/shared 192.168.1.101

6-On Node 2 ( As Root User ) –> #  mount -t nfs 192.168.1.100:/u01/app/shared/ /u01/app/shared/
7- Check using df -h 

**Remove:-

8- umount /u01/app/shared ( on Node 2 ) 

Important Command :
showmount -e : Shows the available shares on your local machine
exportfs -v : Displays a list of shares files and options on a server

Thank you
Osama Mustafa