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How to Shutdown or Restart Oracle RAC Da(2)

The document outlines a six-step process for shutting down or restarting an Oracle RAC Database Server, emphasizing the importance of stopping various components in a specific order to prevent data corruption. Steps include stopping database instances, services, node-level applications, ASM instances, and the listener before finally shutting down or restarting the server. The guide is tailored for single server operations within a Real Application Cluster environment to maintain database accessibility through other nodes.

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How to Shutdown or Restart Oracle RAC Da(2)

The document outlines a six-step process for shutting down or restarting an Oracle RAC Database Server, emphasizing the importance of stopping various components in a specific order to prevent data corruption. Steps include stopping database instances, services, node-level applications, ASM instances, and the listener before finally shutting down or restarting the server. The guide is tailored for single server operations within a Real Application Cluster environment to maintain database accessibility through other nodes.

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How to Shutdown or Restart Oracle RAC Database Server in 6 Steps ?

Sometimes DBA has to either Shutdown Oracle RAC Database Server or Restart Oracle
RAC Database Server because of scheduled maintenance,OS patching, OS Upgrade and
Hardware replacement etc. Since, Oracle products has evolved a lot so now there are many
things to take care by Database Administrator before restarting or shutting down Database
Server.

An Oracle Database Server can have following Oracle Components.

1. Oracle Database Running.


2. If RAC is configured. A cluster stack will also be running at the server.
3. If DBA is using ASM instance for Shared storage device. You will find an running ASM
instance on the server.
4. A listener will be running there.
5. OEM Control, this is an optional component.

If you have all these components running on Database Server, then before restart or shutdown
Database server you have to stop all these resource to avoid any corruption or inconsistency into
database.

Here I will discuss about restarting or shutting down only single server for Real Application
cluster environment. So that Database is accessible through other nodes. Though DBA can also
easily shutdown whole clusterware but this will make database unavailable So make sure you
really need that.

6 Steps to Shutdown or Restart Oracle RAC


Database Server
In this process, we have to follow a order of stopping resources. So when you apply steps given
in this post use them in same order as written in the post.

1. Stop Database Instances: The process of shutdown or restart DB server starts


with stopping the database instance running on database node. So, first of all DBA has to stop
database instance running on this node. This will not make an impact on database since
database is accessible through other instances in RAC env. Before stopping database instance
make sure another instance is running other server.
[grid@db oracle]$ srvctl status database -d oradb
Instance oradb1 is running on node dbnode1
Instance oradb2 is running on node dbnode2

[grid@ oracle]$ srvctl stop instance -d oradb -i oradb1

[grid@ oracle]$ srvctl status database -d oradb


Instance oradb1 is not running on node dbnode1
Instance oradb2 is running on node dbnode2

Now Database oradb is running on dbnode2 having instance name oradb2. If this server has more
than one database instance running on this node use same method to stop each instance.

2. Stop Services on Database Node: If you have configured some node level
services on database node, then list and stop them using below:

[grid@ oracle]$ srvctl status service -d oradb -v


Service oltp is running on instance(s) dbnode1

[grid@ oracle]$ srvctl stop service -d oradb -s oltp

[grid@ oracle]$ srvctl status service -d oradb -v


Service oltp is not running.

In the above case, only one service is running on oradb1 instance, which is stopped now.

3. Stop Node level Applications: If DBA has some node level application
configured then stop them using below:

[grid@ oracle]$ srvctl status nodeapps -n dbnode1


VIP dbnode1-vip is enabled
VIP dbnode1-vip is running on node: dbnode1
Network is enabled
Network is running on node: dbnode1
GSD is disabled
GSD is not running on node: dbnode1
ONS is enabled
ONS daemon is running on node: dbnode1

[grid@ oracle]$ srvctl stop nodeapps -n dbnode1 -f


PRKO-2426 : ONS is already stopped on node(s): dbnode1

[grid@ oracle]$ srvctl status nodeapps -n dbnode1


VIP dbnode1-vip is enabled
VIP dbnode1-vip is not running
Network is enabled
Network is not running on node: dbnode1
GSD is disabled
GSD is not running on node: dbnode1
ONS is enabled
ONS daemon is not running on node: dbnode1

4. Stop Running ASM Instances: ASM instance is a bridge between Database


instance running on database node and database stored on shared server. In order to stop DB
server DBA has to stop ASM instance as well.

[grid@ oracle]$ srvctl stop asm -n dbnode1-f

[grid@ oracle]$ srvctl status asm -n dbnode1


ASM is not running on dbnode1

5. Stop Listener on Database Server: Listener is used to listen requests coming


for new connections, so before stooping database server we have to stop listener on the server so
that it doesn't take new connection requests.

[grid@ oracle]$ srvctl status listener -n dbnode1


Listener LISTENER is enabled on node(s): dbnode1
Listener LISTENER is running on node(s): dbnode1

[grid@oracle]$ srvctl stop listener -n dbnode1

[grid@oracle]$ srvctl status listener -n dbnode1


Listener LISTENER is enabled on node(s): dbnode1
Listener LISTENER is not running on node(s): dbnode1
Now all components from database side are stopped, DBA can move forward to restart or
shutdown database server.

6. Restart or shutdown database server: To shutdown or restart database


server, DBA has to have root user login credentials.

To Restart Linux Database Server.

[root@oracle]$ /sbin/shutdown -r now

To Shutdown database server.

[root@oracle]$ shutdown -h now

If you not using RAC environment and want's to shutdown or Restart DB server, then just
shutdown the database instance using "shutdown immediate" and stop listener using "lsnrctl
stop {listener_name}" and execute step 6 given in this post.

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