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  • Writer's pictureArun Kumar

Startup & Shutdown RAC Instances

Shutting down and starting up RAC instances can be challenging at times. There are various methods with which you start and stop RAC instances


Start Stop via SQL*PLUS


Connect to individual node DBs via SQLPLUS and use normal startup/shutdown commands



Start & Stop RAC Databases

srvctl status database -d RAC

srvctl stop database -d RAC -o immediate

srvctl start database -d RAC -o nomount | mount | open

srvctl config database -d RAC

srvctl status service -d RAC

srvctl status asm -n oraracn1 -a

srvctl status asm -a

srvctl stop asm -n oraracn1 -f

srvctl start asm -n oraracn1

srvctl status nodeapps -n oraracn1

srvctl config nodeapps -n oraracn1


Start and Stop RAC Instances

srvctl start instance -d RAC -i instancename

srvctl stop instance -d RAC -i instancename

srvctl status scan

srvctl config scan

srvctl status scan_listener

srvctl config scan_listener

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