Friday, July 1, 2016

Moving Role Separated Oracle Restart Setup to Single User Setup

Oracle role separation setup involves installing the grid infrastructure and oracle database software as different users. Commonly GI is installed as grid user and oracle database software as oracle user. On rare occasions this role separation could result in behavior that is not experienced when both GI and Oracle DB is installed using a single user. Issues with secure password store and external tables are just two examples.
This post shows steps to moving from a role separated Oracle restart setup to a single user setup.
The way to do this is to remove the GI software installed with grid user and reinstall it with oracle user. However it is not possible to remove the the existing GI home while oracle database home is configured on it.
[grid@rhel7 deinstall]$ ./deinstall
Checking for required files and bootstrapping ...
Please wait ...
Location of logs /opt/app/oraInventory/logs/
...
Traces log file: /opt/app/oraInventory/logs//crsdc_2016-02-24_07-28-15PM.log
ERROR: Can't deconfigure Oracle Restart before removing or downgrading managed Oracle databases.
So the option is to manually remove the grid home. This oracle restart environment used here is 12.1.0.2 on RHEL 7
1. Create a pfile from the ASM spfile
SQL> create pfile='/home/grid/asmpfile.ora' from spfile;

[grid@rhel7 ~]$ more asmpfile.ora
+ASM.__oracle_base='/opt/app/oracle'#ORACLE_BASE set from in memory value
+ASM.asm_diskgroups='FRA'#Manual Mount
*.asm_diskstring='/dev/sd*'
*.asm_power_limit=1
*.large_pool_size=12M
*.remote_login_passwordfile='EXCLUSIVE'
2. Backup the oratab file

3. Stop the HAS service
crsctl stop has
4. As root user, delete the GI home installed with grid user
[root@rhel7 12.1.0]# pwd
/opt/app/oracle/product/12.1.0
[root@rhel7 12.1.0]# rm -rf grid
5. Remove other HAS related files
cd /etc
rm -rf ora*
find . -name *ohasd -exec rm {} \;

rm /etc/systemd/system/oracle-ohasd.service
rm /etc/init.d/*ohasd
rm -rf /opt/ORCLfmap
rm -rf /var/tmp/.oracle
Removing of "/var/tmp/.oracle" is important without removing it, trying to reinstall will fail. More on 1997268.1
2016/02/24 20:04:38 CLSRSC-318: Failed to start Oracle OHASD service
Died at /opt/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/grid_2/crs/install/crsinstall.pm line 3041.
6. Backup the existing oraInventory and create a new oraInventory directory as oracle user
drwxrwx---.  6 grid   oinstall   97 Feb  5 19:38 oraInventory

# mv oraInventory oraInventorybak
# mkdir oraInventory
# chown oracle:oinstall oraInventory
7. Change udev file so that owner is the oracle user
OWNER="oracle", GROUP="asmadmin", MODE="0660"
8. Remove grid user owned GI related folders from ORACLE_BASE
 cd $ORACLE_BASE
# ls -l
drwxrwx---.  4 grid   oinstall   29 Sep 29 16:58 admin
drwxr-x---.  3 oracle oinstall   18 Sep 29 17:26 audit
drwxrwxr-x.  6 grid   oinstall   56 Sep 30 15:38 cfgtoollogs
drwxr-xr-x.  2 grid   oinstall    6 Sep 29 16:43 checkpoints
drwxrwx---.  4 grid   oinstall   32 Sep 29 16:39 crsdata
drwxr-x---. 19 grid   oinstall 4096 Sep 29 16:38 diag
drwxr-xr-x.  3 grid   oinstall   17 Feb  4 17:44 log
drwxrwxr-x.  3 grid   oinstall   19 Sep 29 16:33 product
drwxr-xr-x.  3 grid   oinstall   24 Sep 29 16:39 rhel7

rm -rf admin/+ASM
rm -rf cfgtoollogs
rm -rf checkpoints
rm -rf crsdata
rm -rf diag
rm -rf log
rm -rf rhel7/

# ls -l

drwxrwx---. 3 grid   oinstall 18 Feb 24 19:39 admin
drwxr-x---. 3 oracle oinstall 18 Sep 29 17:26 audit
drwxrwxr-x. 3 grid   oinstall 19 Sep 29 16:33 product
Change the ownership of the remaining files to oracle user
chown oracle:oinstall product/12.1.0
chown oracle:oinstall product
chown oracle:oinstall admin

# ls -l

drwxrwx---. 3 oracle oinstall 18 Feb 24 19:39 admin
drwxr-x---. 3 oracle oinstall 18 Sep 29 17:26 audit
drwxrwxr-x. 3 oracle oinstall 19 Sep 29 16:33 product
9. Reboot the server. Once restarted verify the permission on the block devices used for ASM
ls -l /dev/sd*
brw-rw----. 1 oracle asmadmin 8, 17 Feb 24 19:42 /dev/sdb1
brw-rw----. 1 oracle asmadmin 8, 33 Feb 24 19:42 /dev/sdc1
10. Add to oracle user asm related os groups. The final group list for oracle user is as below
id oracle
uid=1001(oracle) gid=1001(oinstall) groups=1001(oinstall),1002(dba),1003(oper),1005(asmoper),1006(asmdba),1007(asmadmin),1008(backupdba),1009(dgdba),1010(kmdba)
11. Install the GI software selecting "software only" option.

12. Run the root scripts when prompted
# /opt/app/oraInventory/orainstRoot.sh
Changing permissions of /opt/app/oraInventory.
Adding read,write permissions for group.
Removing read,write,execute permissions for world.

Changing groupname of /opt/app/oraInventory to oinstall.
The execution of the script is complete.

# /opt/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/grid_2/root.sh
Performing root user operation.

The following environment variables are set as:
    ORACLE_OWNER= oracle
    ORACLE_HOME=  /opt/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/grid_2

Enter the full pathname of the local bin directory: [/usr/local/bin]:
The contents of "dbhome" have not changed. No need to overwrite.
The contents of "oraenv" have not changed. No need to overwrite.
The contents of "coraenv" have not changed. No need to overwrite.


Creating /etc/oratab file...
Entries will be added to the /etc/oratab file as needed by
Database Configuration Assistant when a database is created
Finished running generic part of root script.
Now product-specific root actions will be performed.

To configure Grid Infrastructure for a Stand-Alone Server run the following command as the root user:
/opt/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/grid_2/perl/bin/perl -I/opt/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/grid_2/perl/lib -I/opt/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/grid_2/crs/install /opt/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/grid_2/crs/install/roothas.pl

To configure Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster execute the following command as oracle user:
/opt/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/grid_2/crs/config/config.sh
This command launches the Grid Infrastructure Configuration Wizard. The wizard also supports silent operation, and the parameters can be passed through the response file that is available in the installation media.
Run the command to configure Oracle restart.
# /opt/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/grid_2/perl/bin/perl -I/opt/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/grid_2/perl/lib -I/opt/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/grid_2/crs/install /opt/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/grid_2/crs/install/roothas.pl
Using configuration parameter file: /opt/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/grid_2/crs/install/crsconfig_params
LOCAL ADD MODE
Creating OCR keys for user 'oracle', privgrp 'oinstall'..
Operation successful.
LOCAL ONLY MODE
Successfully accumulated necessary OCR keys.
Creating OCR keys for user 'root', privgrp 'root'..
Operation successful.
CRS-4664: Node rhel7 successfully pinned.
2016/03/01 18:39:59 CLSRSC-330: Adding Clusterware entries to file 'oracle-ohasd.service'

rhel7     2016/03/01 18:40:32     /opt/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/grid_2/cdata/rhel7/backup_20160301_184032.olr     0
CRS-2791: Starting shutdown of Oracle High Availability Services-managed resources on 'rhel7'
CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.evmd' on 'rhel7'
CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.evmd' on 'rhel7' succeeded
CRS-2793: Shutdown of Oracle High Availability Services-managed resources on 'rhel7' has completed
CRS-4133: Oracle High Availability Services has been stopped.
CRS-4123: Oracle High Availability Services has been started.
2016/03/01 18:40:49 CLSRSC-327: Successfully configured Oracle Restart for a standalone server

crsctl stat res -t
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name           Target  State        Server                   State details
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Local Resources
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ora.ons
               OFFLINE OFFLINE      rhel7                    STABLE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Cluster Resources
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ora.cssd
      1        OFFLINE OFFLINE                               STABLE
ora.diskmon
      1        OFFLINE OFFLINE                               STABLE
ora.evmd
      1        ONLINE  ONLINE       rhel7                    STABLE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


13. Add ASM home entry to the /etc/oratab file
+ASM:/opt/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/grid_2:N
14. Add listener and ASM to HAS configuration
$ srvctl add listener -l listener -o /opt/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/grid_2 -p 1521
$ srvctl start listener -l listener
$ srvctl status listener -l listener
Listener LISTENER is enabled
Listener LISTENER is running on node(s): rhel7

$ srvctl add asm -l listener  -d "/dev/sd*"
$ srvctl start asm
$ srvctl config asm
ASM home: 
Password file:
ASM listener: LISTENER
Spfile:
ASM diskgroup discovery string: /dev/sd*

[oracle@rhel7 ~]$ crsctl stat res -t
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name           Target  State        Server                   State details
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Local Resources
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ora.LISTENER.lsnr
               ONLINE  ONLINE       rhel7                    STABLE
ora.asm
               ONLINE  ONLINE       rhel7                    Started,STABLE
ora.ons
               OFFLINE OFFLINE      rhel7                    STABLE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Cluster Resources
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ora.cssd
      1        ONLINE  ONLINE       rhel7                    STABLE
ora.diskmon
      1        OFFLINE OFFLINE                               STABLE
ora.evmd
      1        ONLINE  ONLINE       rhel7                    STABLE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
15. Modify the inventory for GI Home to include crs=true. The inventory.xml content before and after the modification
<HOME_LIST>
<HOME NAME="OraGI12Home1" LOC="/opt/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/grid_2" TYPE="O" IDX="1"/>
</HOME_LIST>

./runInstaller -updateNodeList ORACLE_HOME=/opt/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/grid_2 CRS=TRUE -silent

<HOME_LIST>
<HOME NAME="OraGI12Home1" LOC="/opt/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/grid_2" TYPE="O" IDX="1" CRS="true"/>
</HOME_LIST>
16. Patch the GI home to the same level as the Oracle database home.

17. Attach the Oracle database home
./runInstaller -silent -attachHome ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_HOME ORACLE_HOME_NAME="oracle_home"
Starting Oracle Universal Installer...

Checking swap space: must be greater than 500 MB.   Actual 4097 MB    Passed
The inventory pointer is located at /etc/oraInst.loc
'AttachHome' was successful.
Inventory content before and after oracle home attached
Before 
<HOME_LIST>
<HOME NAME="OraGI12Home1" LOC="/opt/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/grid" TYPE="O" IDX="1" CRS="true"/>
</HOME_LIST>

After
<HOME_LIST>
<HOME NAME="OraGI12Home1" LOC="/opt/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/grid_2" TYPE="O" IDX="1" CRS="true"/>
<HOME NAME="oracle_home" LOC="/opt/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/dbhome_2" TYPE="O" IDX="2"/>
</HOME_LIST>
18. Mount the ASM disk groups
SQL>  select name,state from v$asm_diskgroup;

NAME                           STATE
------------------------------ -----------
FRA                            DISMOUNTED
DATA                           DISMOUNTED

alter diskgroup data mount;
alter diskgroup fra mount;
19. If does not exists create spfile alias and add the database to HAS configuration. Also db entry to oratab file.
mkalias parameterfile/spfile.266.891711477 spfilese2db.ora

srvctl add database -d se2db -o /opt/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/dbhome_2 -p +DATA/se2db/spfilese2db.ora -a "data,fra"
srvctl start database -d se2db
20. Add auto start options to the components
crsctl modify resource ora.DATA.dg -attr "AUTO_START"="always" -unsupported
crsctl modify resource ora.FRA.dg -attr "AUTO_START"="always"    -unsupported
crsctl modify resource ora.LISTENER.lsnr -attr "AUTO_START"="always" -unsupported
crsctl modify resource ora.se2db.db -attr "AUTO_START"="always"  -unsupported
21. The HAS stack should be now up and running
$ crsctl stat res -t
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name           Target  State        Server                   State details
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Local Resources
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ora.DATA.dg
               ONLINE  ONLINE       rhel7                    STABLE
ora.FRA.dg
               ONLINE  ONLINE       rhel7                    STABLE
ora.LISTENER.lsnr
               ONLINE  ONLINE       rhel7                    STABLE
ora.asm
               ONLINE  ONLINE       rhel7                    Started,STABLE
ora.ons
               OFFLINE OFFLINE      rhel7                    STABLE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Cluster Resources
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ora.cssd
      1        ONLINE  ONLINE       rhel7                    STABLE
ora.diskmon
      1        OFFLINE OFFLINE                               STABLE
ora.evmd
      1        ONLINE  ONLINE       rhel7                    STABLE
ora.se2db.db
      1        ONLINE  ONLINE       rhel7                    Open,STABLE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This concludes the steps for moving a role separated oracle restart setup to a single user setup.

Useful metalink notes
Oracle Restart: 12.1 grid installation root.sh fails while starting ohasd [ID 1997268.1]

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Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Secure External Password Store and Oracle Restart with Role Separation

Oracle secure external password store allows storing of password needed for database connection in a client side Oracle wallet. It allows password-less connection to the database and useful in running scripts without having to put the password in them. A secure external password store could be setup as below.
Create a wallet (usually in TNS_ADMIN but could be different location as well)
cd $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin/

orapki wallet create -wallet . -pwd "welcome1" -auto_login_local
Oracle PKI Tool : Version 11.2.0.4.0 - Production
Copyright (c) 2004, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

[oracle@rhel7 admin]$ ls
cwallet.sso  ewallet.p12  samples  shrept.lst  tnsnames.ora
The option "auto_login_local" prevents the wallet being moved to another host and used (1114599.1). It also ties the wallet to the operating system user preventing other users in the same host using the wallet as well (1505040.1). Create a credential, in this case std11g2 is a TNS entry that exists in tnsnames.ora file and asanga and asa are username and password
mkstore -wrl . -createCredential std11g2 asanga asa
Oracle Secret Store Tool : Version 11.2.0.4.0 - Production
Copyright (c) 2004, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Enter wallet password:
Create credential oracle.security.client.connect_string1
Add the wallet location to sqlnet.ora file and set WALLET_OVERRIDE to true which makes user names and passwords from the wallet to be used for authentication.
more sqlnet.ora
WALLET_LOCATION =
    (SOURCE =
       (METHOD = FILE)
       (METHOD_DATA = (DIRECTORY = /opt/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_4/network/admin))
)

SQLNET.WALLET_OVERRIDE = TRUE
The existing credentials could be listed with the following command
mkstore -wrl . -listCredential
Oracle Secret Store Tool : Version 11.2.0.4.0 - Production
Copyright (c) 2004, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Enter wallet password:
List credential (index: connect_string username)
1: std11g2 asanga
With the external secure password store now setup, one could connected to the database without specifying the password as show below
[oracle@rhel7 orawallet]$ sqlplus  /@std11g2

SQL> show user
USER is "ASANGA"
Problem is that when secure external password store is setup for a Oracle restart (Single instance with ASM) database that has role separation (GI installed grid user and DB installed as oracle), the database fails to start during restarts and when srvctl is used. Below for a 11.2.0.4 setup
srvctl start database -d std11g2
PRCR-1079 : Failed to start resource ora.std11g2.db
CRS-5017: The resource action "ora.std11g2.db start" encountered the following error:
ORA-01078: failure in processing system parameters
. For details refer to "(:CLSN00107:)" in "/opt/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/grid_4/log/rhel6m1/agent/ohasd/oraagent_grid//oraagent_grid.log".

CRS-2674: Start of 'ora.std11g2.db' on 'rhel6m1' failed
Below for a 12.1.0.2 setup
srvctl start database -d se2db
PRCR-1079 : Failed to start resource ora.se2db.db
CRS-5017: The resource action "ora.se2db.db start" encountered the following error:
ORA-01078: failure in processing system parameters
ORA-01565: error in identifying file '+DATA/se2db/spfilese2db.ora'
ORA-17503: ksfdopn:10 Failed to open file +DATA/se2db/spfilese2db.ora
ORA-12578: TNS:wallet open failed
. For details refer to "(:CLSN00107:)" in "/opt/app/oracle/diag/crs/rhel7/crs/trace/ohasd_oraagent_grid.trc".

CRS-2674: Start of 'ora.se2db.db' on 'rhel7' failed
MOS notes 1612712.1,1383938.1 says to set the permission to 750 for this issue but it didn't work.



During further investigation of the issue following observations were made.
1. The problem doesn't happen when both grid home and oracle home are installed under one user (usually as oracle user).
2. Problem doesn't happen in RAC environments even if grid home and oracle home are installed as different users (grid home as grid user and oracle home as oracle user)
3. Problem only happens in single instance environments (tested on 12c and 11.2.0.4) where grid home is owned by grid user and oracle home is owned by oracle user.
Looking at the trace file shows that srvctl fails to connect to idle instance to start the database
2016-03-30 11:11:12.474778 :CLSDYNAM:2930841344: [ora.se2db.db]{0:0:45668} [start] clsnInstConnection::makeConnectStr UsrOraEnv ,ORACLE_BASE= m_oracleHome /opt/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/dbhome_2 Crshome /opt/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/grid
2016-03-30 11:11:12.474822 :CLSDYNAM:2930841344: [ora.se2db.db]{0:0:45668} [start] makeConnectStr = (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=beq)(PROGRAM=/opt/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/dbhome_2/bin/oracle)(ARGV0=oraclese2db)(ENVS='ORACLE_HOME=/opt/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/dbhome_2,ORACLE_SID=se2db,LD_LIBRARY_PATH=,ORACLE_BASE=')(ARGS='(DESCRIPTION=(LOCAL=YES)(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=beq)))')(CONNECT_DATA=(SID=se2db))))
2016-03-30 11:11:12.475460 :CLSDYNAM:2930841344: [ora.se2db.db]{0:0:45668} [start] InstAgent::stop non pool pConnxn 1 9434f9e0
2016-03-30 11:11:12.475519 :CLSDYNAM:2930841344: [ora.se2db.db]{0:0:45668} [start] InstConnection::connectInt: server not attached
2016-03-30 11:11:13.498240 :CLSDYNAM:2930841344: [ora.se2db.db]{0:0:45668} [start] InstConnection:connectInt connected
2016-03-30 11:11:13.498315 :CLSDYNAM:2930841344: [ora.se2db.db]{0:0:45668} [start] InstConnection::shutdown mode 4
2016-03-30 11:11:13.499364 :CLSDYNAM:2930841344: [ora.se2db.db]{0:0:45668} [start] ORA-01034: ORACLE not available
Process ID: 0
Session ID: 0 Serial number: 0

2016-03-30 11:11:13.499453 :CLSDYNAM:2930841344: [ora.se2db.db]{0:0:45668} [start] InstConnection::disassociateEdition OCI error 1034
Then the start of the database was tested a wallet created without the "local" option. As mentioned earlier local option prevents wallet being used in another host and is tied to the OS user. On 11.2.0.4
orapki wallet create -wallet . -pwd "welcome1" -auto_login
Oracle PKI Tool : Version 11.2.0.4.0 - Production
Copyright (c) 2004, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

srvctl start database -d std11g2
srvctl status database -d std11g2
Database is running.
On 12.1.0.2
orapki wallet create -wallet . -pwd "welcome1" -auto_login
Oracle PKI Tool : Version 12.1.0.2
Copyright (c) 2004, 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

srvctl start database -d se2db
srvctl status database -d se2db
Database is running.
So it appears the problem seem to be use of auto_login_local since there's no issue when using auto_login. Since wallet wasn't moved to a different server, the only reason that could prevent DB from starting with a wallet created with auto_login_local option is if the starting command is executed by a user other than the user tied to the wallet. Right now the wallet has been created as Oracle user and srvctl start was executed as oracle user. So it appears that grid user gets involved in starting the DB even when srvctl is run as oracle user (why the same is not happening in RAC role separated config is under SR)
So the solution in this case was to create an empty wallet as grid user and set permission to 750.
[grid@rhel7 wallet]$ orapki wallet create -wallet . -pwd "welcome1" -auto_login_local
[grid@rhel7 wallet]$ chmod 750 cwallet.sso ewallet.p12
[grid@rhel7 wallet]$ ls -lrt
-rw-rw-rw-. 1 grid   oinstall     0 Apr 15 17:35 ewallet.p12.lck
-rwxr-x---. 1 grid   oinstall    75 Apr 15 17:35 ewallet.p12
-rw-rw-rw-. 1 grid   oinstall     0 Apr 15 17:35 cwallet.sso.lck
-rwxr-x---. 1 grid   oinstall   120 Apr 15 17:35 cwallet.sso
No credentials are added to this wallet as such nothing to list
[grid@rhel7 wallet]$  mkstore -wrl . -listCredential
Oracle Secret Store Tool : Version 12.1.0.2
Copyright (c) 2004, 2014, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.

Enter wallet password:
List credential (index: connect_string username)
Used a non-default location to this wallet file and this was added to $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin/sqlnet.ora file(not to $GI_HOME/network/admin/sqlnet.ora)
pwd
/opt/app/oracle/product/12.1.0/dbhome_2/network/admin

more sqlnet.ora
WALLET_LOCATION =
    (SOURCE =
       (METHOD = FILE)
       (METHOD_DATA = (DIRECTORY = /usr/local/wallet))
)

SQLNET.WALLET_OVERRIDE = TRUE
With this setup in place srvctl works fine and database get started automatically after restarts. However password-less access fails as the wallet is owned by grid user
[oracle@rhel7 orawallet]$ sqlplus  /@se2db

ERROR:
ORA-12578: TNS:wallet open failed
To fix this, create another wallet at a different location as Oracle user.
ls /usr/local/wallet/orawallet

-rwxrwx---. 1 oracle oinstall 528 Apr 15 17:20 ewallet.p12
-rwxrwx---. 1 oracle oinstall 573 Apr 15 17:20 cwallet.sso
Create another sqlnet.ora file in the same directory (orawallet). Add this directory path as the wallet location
WALLET_LOCATION =
    (SOURCE =
       (METHOD = FILE)
       (METHOD_DATA = (DIRECTORY = /usr/local/wallet/orawallet))
)

SQLNET.WALLET_OVERRIDE = TRUE
Whenever password-less access using external password store is needed export this location as the TNS_ADMIN and connect.
export TNS_ADMIN=/usr/local/wallet/orawallet
sqlplus  /@se2db

SQL> show user
USER is "ASANGA"
If any database scripts require password-less access before running export the TNS_ADMIN to location where second sqlnet.ora file was set.
Why the auto_login_local fails this way in Oracle restart with role separation is still under SR.

Useful metalink notes
Using a Secure External Password Store with the JDBC Thin Driver [ID 1441745.1]
Using The Secure External Password Store [ID 340559.1]
How To Avoid Expdp And Impdp Passwords Being Visible By "ps" Unix Command? [ID 869825.1]
How To Prevent The Secure Password Store Wallet From Being Moved to Another Host [ID 1114599.1]
Oracle Cluster failed to start with ASM instance getting ORA-00443 [ID 2000868.1]
Database Failed To Start [ID 1922401.1]
Oracle Restart: srvctl fails to start database with error CRS-5010 if RDBMS and Grid under different users [ID 1335607.1]
How to configure SEPS for the pluggable databases [ID 1980698.1]
Bug 11706168 - ORA-00000 during STARTUP with SQLNET.WALLET_OVERRIDE=TRUE [ID 11706168.8]
How To Configure The Secure External Password Store To Allow The Connection To RMAN Catalog? [ID 1383938.1]
ORA-15055 and ORA-12578 on database startup with external wallet store [ID 1612712.1]
How To Check Whether The Wallet Is A Local Auto Login Wallet [ID 1505040.1]

Friday, May 27, 2016

mount to NFS server failed: RPC Error: Program not registered.

Mounting to an NFS location was failing with following error. This was an existing NFS mount location which worked fine earlier.
mount -t nfs -o rw,hard,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,vers=3,nointr,timeo=600,tcp,nolock,actimeo=0 nfs-server:/home/oracle/backup/ /home/oracle/dbbackup
mount: mount to NFS server 'nfs-server' failed: RPC Error: Program not registered.
Showmount to the nfs-server also fails with
showmount -e nfs-server
mount clntudp_create: RPC: Program not registered
To fix this restart the nfs related services in the following order on the nfs server. First rpcbind service
[root@nfs-server ~]# service rpcbind start
Starting rpcbind:                                          [  OK  ]
Second the nfs service
[root@nfs-server ~]# service nfs start
Starting NFS services:                                     [  OK  ]
Starting NFS quotas:                                       [  OK  ]
Starting NFS mountd:                                       [  OK  ]
Starting NFS daemon:                                       [  OK  ]
Starting RPC idmapd:                                       [  OK  ]
Finally the portmap service
[root@nfs-server ~]# service portmap start
Starting portmap:                                          [  OK  ]


Afterwards NFS mount works without issue
# mount -t nfs -o rw,hard,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,vers=3,nointr,timeo=600,tcp,nolock,actimeo=0 10.10.0.102:/home/oracle/backup/ /home/oracle/dbbackup
# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on

xx.xx.x.xxx:/home/oracle/backup/
                      526G  407G   93G  82% /home/oracle/dbbackup
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