Thursday, May 15, 2008

CRS-0223: Resource 'ResourceName' has placement error

While I was attempting to configure a RAC environment, I noticed some services were started and some other weren't, when I tried to start the services, the 'placement' error showed up, this was due because when trying to start the crs with the crsctl start crs command on both nodes, there was not enough time between the start process in node 1 and node2, so the VIP address has switched its control from node 1 to node2, and when I tried to bring back the service to node 1 it by explicitly starting it on node 1 the error showed up.

The Oracle error manual states:

Oracle Error : CRS-0223: Resource '%s' has placement error.
Cause: There was no host available on which to failover/start the resource based on the Placement Policy for the resource.
Action: Check the target host for the resource and restart the resource using the crs_start command.

$ ./crs_stat -t
Name Type Target State Host
------------------------------------------------------------
ora....A1.inst application ONLINE OFFLINE
ora....A2.inst application ONLINE ONLINE eg3704
ora.RDBHRA.db application ONLINE ONLINE eg3704
ora....SM1.asm application ONLINE OFFLINE
ora....03.lsnr application ONLINE OFFLINE
ora.eg3703.gsd application ONLINE ONLINE eg3703
ora.eg3703.ons application ONLINE ONLINE eg3703
ora.eg3703.vip application ONLINE ONLINE eg3704
ora....SM2.asm application ONLINE ONLINE eg3704
ora....04.lsnr application ONLINE ONLINE eg3704
ora.eg3704.gsd application ONLINE ONLINE eg3704
ora.eg3704.ons application ONLINE ONLINE eg3704
ora.eg3704.vip application ONLINE ONLINE eg3704


[oracle@eg3703 bin]$ ./crs_start ora.eg3703.LISTENER_EG3703.lsnr
eg3703 : CRS-1018:
Resource ora.eg3703.vip (application) is already running on eg3704
eg3704 : CRS-1019: Resource ora.eg3703.LISTENER_EG3703.lsnr (application) cannot run on eg3704

CRS-0223: Resource 'ora.eg3703.LISTENER_EG3703.lsnr' has placement error.
[oracle@eg3703 bin]$ ./crs_start ora.eg3703.ASM1.asm
eg3703 : CRS-1018: Resource ora.eg3703.vip (application) is already running on eg3704
eg3704 : CRS-1019: Resource ora.eg3703.ASM1.asm (application) cannot run on eg3704

CRS-0223: Resource 'ora.eg3703.ASM1.asm' has placement error.


At first hand, the procedure was to shutdown services and start them in order, so when that each service could take its place.


Name Type Target State Host
------------------------------------------------------------
ora....A1.inst application ONLINE ONLINE eg3703
ora....A2.inst application ONLINE ONLINE eg3704
ora.RDBHRA.db application ONLINE ONLINE eg3703
ora....SM1.asm application ONLINE ONLINE eg3703
ora....03.lsnr application ONLINE ONLINE eg3703
ora.eg3703.gsd application ONLINE ONLINE eg3703
ora.eg3703.ons application ONLINE ONLINE eg3703
ora.eg3703.vip application ONLINE ONLINE eg3703
ora....SM2.asm application ONLINE ONLINE eg3704
ora....04.lsnr application ONLINE ONLINE eg3704
ora.eg3704.gsd application ONLINE ONLINE eg3704
ora.eg3704.ons application ONLINE ONLINE eg3704
ora.eg3704.vip application ONLINE ONLINE eg3704

2 comments:

Gabriel Bravo Forero said...

Could you tell us what is the correct order and its respective commands, please. I having a similar problem. Thanks in advance.

Hector R. Madrid said...

First verify your rac log files to find out if the reason why you are facing this problem is also similar. There were no particular commands issued to solve this problem, in my case a simple shutdown and startup in order was enough. If you are facing a problem with your network interfaces or the VIP configuration, then restarting the RAC won't be enough.