Recovery of OCR in 11g

Step #1 Stop cluster on each node (Root user).

# crsctl stop crs -f

Step #2 we are starting the cluster in the excusive mode (Root user)

As root start GI in exclusive mode on one node only:

In 11201 RAC, we have to use below option to start the cluster in the exclusive mode.

# crsctl start crs -excl

In 11202 RAC, we have to use below option to start the cluster in the exclusive mode.

# crsctl start crs -excl -nocrs

Note: A new option ‘-nocrs‘ has been introduced with  11.2.0.2, which prevents the start of the ora.crsd resource. It is vital that this option is specified; otherwise the failure to start the ora.crsd resource will tear down ora.cluster_interconnect.haip, which in turn will cause ASM to crash.

Step #3 Restoring OCR

To Know the OCR Location on the cluster environment
$ cat /etc/oracle/ocr.loc  — In Linux

To Check whether ocrcheck is corrupted or not

# ocrcheck

Check whether ocrcheck is able to complete it successfully

OCR CHECK Ex
# ocrcheck
Status of Oracle Cluster Registry is as follows :
         Version                  :          3
         Total space (kbytes)     :     262120
         Used space (kbytes)      :       4404
         Available space (kbytes) :     257716
         ID                       : 1306201859
         Device/File Name         :  +DG01
                                    Device/File integrity check succeeded
                                    Device/File not configured
                                    Device/File not configured
                                    Device/File not configured
                                    Device/File not configured
         Cluster registry integrity check succeeded

         Logical corruption check succeeded
     

Note: 1) Check whether cluster registry integrity check is successful.
          2) When you run as root user, logical corruption check will be bypassed.
If you run as oracle user, you can see this line end of the “ocrcheck” output.
“Logical corruption check bypassed due to non-privileged user”


To Know the OCR Location on the cluster environment
$ cat /etc/oracle/ocr.loc  — In Linux
If the OCR DISK corrupted, then perform the below steps

Locate OCR LOG file location
$ORACLE_HOME /log/<hostname>/client/ocrcheck_<pid>.log
Locate the latest automatic OCR backup
$GRID_HOME\bin\ocrconfig –showbackup

Restore the latest OCR backup(root user)
# ocrconfig -restore $ORACLE_HOME/cdata/testdbrac1/backup00.ocr