(and other random technology posts)
The behaviour of the pullup dependency as described in the Oracle documentation for CRS resources is counter-intuitive and so I decided to do some testing around it to see the results and reassure myself that the documentation was correct.
Users were complaining of ORA-12514: TNS:listener does not currently know of service requested in connect descriptor errors whilst connecting to a database on a RAC cluster. The cause was elusive, but was eventually tracked down to an unpublished bug relating to SCAN listener re-registration.
The following message was being repeatedly reported in our alert log: 2012-12-05 04:44:36.067 [client(10553)]CRS-10051:CVU found following errors with Clusterware setup : PRVF-5408 : NTP Time Server "138.35.51.113" is common only to the following nodes "ora005" PRVF-5408 : NTP Time Server "138.35.51.113" is common only to the following nodes "ora005" Certainly a worrying message -- imagine the... Continue Reading →
