Oracle10g CRS(10.1) installation fails

Hi,

Following is a detailed synopsis of my unsuccessful attempt at installing Oracle Cluster Ready Services(10.1) on a two node Windows 2000 advanced server system with external SCSI hard disk.

Following is the hardware specification for both the Nodes

1.Intel Pentium P4 2.80 Ghz CPU
2.512 MB RAM
3.37 GB HDD
4.Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP4
5.Adaptec SCSI CARD 39160 ULTRA160 SCSI Controller
6.Two -10/100 Mbps Fast Ethernet PCI Adapter (DLINK)

Clusterware

Evaluation copy of Oracle Cluster Ready Services 10.1.0.2

Configuration for SCSI

1.Model Make :SEAGATE
2.Model Number :ST336607
3.Firmware: 0007
4.Model Name: Cheetah 10K.6
5.Capacity: 36.7GB
6.Speed: 10000 rpm

Following are the pre-installation steps.

1.The system setup involved 2 identical nodes with Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP4 OS.
2.Two static Public IP's for both the nodes
3.Two private IP's which can be pinged. (1st Node Private IP 10.10.10.2 2nd Node Private IP 10.10.10.3)
4.Entry of the private IP's can also be found in the host file.
5.ORA_DBA win group was created on both the nodes.
6.Both the nodes are connected to a external SCSI hard disk

CRS installation Steps

1.On the Cluster Configuration page the Public Node Names and corresponding Private Node Names were entered.
2.On the Network Interface Usage Page one interface was selected as Public (192.168.144.0) and the other interface was selected as Private (10.10.10.0)
3.On Disk formatting Options page the ‘Do not format any logical drives was selected’.
4.Finally the Logical partitions made on the SCSI hard disk were assigned to the OCR and voting disk.

OUI installed the Oracle folder and services on the primary node and on the remote node. But failed to start the services on both the nodes.

Following is snippet of the OUI installation log.
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Save Cluster Inventory
Error occured while trying to stop service OracleOUIOraCr10g_homeService on one or more cluster nodes. Please stop service on nodes pc-p41300 using the Service Control Manager.
Invoking OUI on cluster nodes pc-p41300
C:\DOCUME~1\salil\LOCALS~1\Temp\OraInstall2005-01-04_09-19-56PM\oui\bin\setup.exe -jreLoc C:\DOCUME~1\salil\LOCALS~1\Temp\OraInstall2005-01-04_09-19-56PM\jre\1.4.2 -paramFile C:\DOCUME~1\salil\LOCALS~1\Temp\OraInstall2005-01-04_09-19-56PM\oui/clusterparam.ini -silent -ignoreSysPrereqs -attachHome -local -noClusterEnabled ORACLE_HOME=D:\oracle\product\10.1.0\crs ORACLE_HOME_NAME=OraCr10g_home CLUSTER_NODES=PC-P41295,pc-p41300 CRS=true

PRKC-1010 : Failed to stop the service on all nodes
Starting to execute configuration assistants

Launched configuration assistant 'Oracle Cluster Ready Services Configuration Assistant'
Tool type is: Optional.
The command being spawned is: 'D:\oracle\product\10.1.0\crs/install/crssetup.config.bat'
Start output from spawned process:

Successfully accumulated necessary OCR keys.
Using ports: CSS=49895 CRS=49896 EVMC=49898 and EVMR=49897.
node :
node 1: pc-p41300 pc-p41300-node pc-p41300
node 2: pc-p41295 pc-p41295-node pc-p41295
Creating OCR keys for user 'salil', privgrp ''..
Operation successful.
Now formatting voting device: \\.\votedsk
Successful in setting block0 for voting disk.
Format complete.
Step 1: checking status of CRS cluster
Step 2: configuring OCR repository
Step 3: configuring safe mode for CRS stack
Step 4: Starting up CRS stack on all nodes
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pc-p41300 service OracleCSService in improper STOPPED state, err(997)
PC-P41295 service OracleCSService in improper PENDING state, err(997)
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Since the above method failed following alternate method was tired

The CRS software was installed on just one node. This installation went about without any problems with all the services up and running.

Using the ADDNode utility provided by CRS another node was added. But again when CRSSetup.exe tried to start the services on the remote node following error was encountered.

PC-P41300 service OracleCSService in improper PENDING state, err(997)

I would be grateful if some could help me with this problem.

Thanking you in Anticipation,

Regards,
Salil([email protected])

Just from initial looking... it seems you may have a pathing problem??

'D:\oracle\product\10.1.0\crs/install/crssetup.config.bat'

Hi Salil,
I am having the same problem , but using 10.2 Clusterware.

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output generated from configuration assistant "Oracle Clusterware Configuration Assistant":
Command = C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd /c call C:\oracle\product\10.2.0/install/crssetup.config.bat
Successfully accumulated necessary OCR keys.
Using ports: CSS=49895 CRS=49896 EVMC=49898 and EVMR=49897.
node :
node 1: vm1 int-vm1 vm1
node 2: vm2 int-vm2 vm2
Creating OCR keys for user 'administrator', privgrp ''..
Operation successful.
Now formatting voting device: S:\cdata\crs\votedsk
Format of 1 voting devices complete.
Step 1: checking status of CRS cluster
Step 2: creating directories (C:\oracle\product\10.2.0)
Step 3: configuring OCR repository
Step 4: configuring safe mode for CRS stack
Step 5: Starting up CRS stack on all nodes
vm1 service OracleCSService in improper PENDING state, err(997)
vm2 service OracleCSService in improper PENDING state, err(997)

Configuration assistant "Oracle Clusterware Configuration Assistant" failed
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The "C:\oracle\product\10.2.0\cfgtoollogs/configToolFailedCommands" script contains all commands that failed, were skipped or were cancelled. This file may be used to run these configuration assistants outside of OUI. Note that you may have to update this script with passwords (if any) before executing the same.----------------------------------------------
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-Mannan

Since you are evaluating the 10g RAC, you may want to go with 10g R2
(http://www.oracle.com/technology/sof...01winsoft.html)

In this release there is a very helpful tool called CVU (cluster verification utility: http://www.oracle.com/technology/pro...AIX_readme.pdf) ... which may help you resolve cluster setup issues before you move forward with the database install.

There is also a Windows version of CVU:
(http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000...ting/cvu-o.asp)

Hi khussain,

Thanks for prompt reply.

I had run several commands like( runcluvfy.bat comp ....-n node1,node2) , which shows clusters are ok .

Now problem is when assistant run it fails at
{
vm1 service OracleCSService in improper PENDING state, err(997)
}

Regards,
Mannan