{"id":14740,"date":"2020-09-25T17:06:09","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T15:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/oda-appliance-creation-error-and-cleanup-pl-with-option-force\/"},"modified":"2023-07-17T15:16:38","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T13:16:38","slug":"oda-appliance-creation-error-and-cleanup-pl-with-option-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/oda-appliance-creation-error-and-cleanup-pl-with-option-force\/","title":{"rendered":"ODA appliance creation error and cleanup.pl with option force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had recently faced an interesting issue deploying ODA X8-2-HA. I would like to share my experience here hoping it could help some of you.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Error in creating the appliance<\/h3>\n<p>After reimaging both node0 and node1 from the ODA X8-2-HA, running the configure-firstnet and updating the repository I was going to create the appliance.<br \/>\nOn ODA X8-2-HA the appliance creation is run from the node0. Provisioning service creation had completed in failure :<br \/>\n<code>[root@oak0 ODA_patch]# <strong>odacli describe-job -i 1d6d3c88-a729-4a56-813c-f6751150441c<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Job details<br \/>\n----------------------------------------------------------------<br \/>\nID:  1d6d3c88-a729-4a56-813c-f6751150441c<br \/>\nDescription:  Provisioning service creation<br \/>\nStatus:  Failure<br \/>\nCreated:  September 7, 2020 3:12:16 PM CEST<br \/>\nMessage:  DCS-10001:Internal error encountered: Fail to run root scripts : Check \/u01\/app\/19.0.0.0\/grid\/install\/root_node0_name_2020-09-07_15-41-59-761776313.log for the output of root script.<\/p>\n<p>Task Name                                Start Time                          End Time                            Status<br \/>\n---------------------------------------- ----------------------------------- ----------------------------------- ----------<br \/>\nProvisioning service creation            September 7, 2020 3:12:24 PM CEST   September 7, 2020 3:45:21 PM CEST   Failure<br \/>\nProvisioning service creation            September 7, 2020 3:12:24 PM CEST   September 7, 2020 3:45:21 PM CEST   Failure<br \/>\nnetwork update                           September 7, 2020 3:12:26 PM CEST   September 7, 2020 3:12:40 PM CEST   Success<br \/>\nupdating network                         September 7, 2020 3:12:26 PM CEST   September 7, 2020 3:12:40 PM CEST   Success<br \/>\nSetting up Network                       September 7, 2020 3:12:26 PM CEST   September 7, 2020 3:12:26 PM CEST   Success<br \/>\nnetwork update                           September 7, 2020 3:12:40 PM CEST   September 7, 2020 3:12:51 PM CEST   Success<br \/>\nupdating network                         September 7, 2020 3:12:41 PM CEST   September 7, 2020 3:12:51 PM CEST   Success<br \/>\nSetting up Network                       September 7, 2020 3:12:41 PM CEST   September 7, 2020 3:12:41 PM CEST   Success<br \/>\nOS usergroup 'asmdba'creation            September 7, 2020 3:12:51 PM CEST   September 7, 2020 3:12:51 PM CEST   Success<br \/>\nOS usergroup 'asmoper'creation           September 7, 2020 3:12:51 PM CEST   September 7, 2020 3:12:51 PM CEST   Success<br \/>\nOS usergroup 'asmadmin'creation          September 7, 2020 3:12:51 PM CEST   September 7, 2020 3:12:51 PM CEST   Success<br \/>\nOS usergroup 'dba'creation               September 7, 2020 3:12:51 PM CEST   September 7, 2020 3:12:51 PM CEST   Success<br \/>\nOS usergroup 'dbaoper'creation           September 7, 2020 3:12:51 PM CEST   September 7, 2020 3:12:51 PM CEST   Success<br \/>\nOS usergroup 'oinstall'creation          September 7, 2020 3:12:51 PM CEST   September 7, 2020 3:12:51 PM CEST   Success<br \/>\nOS user 'grid'creation                   September 7, 2020 3:12:51 PM CEST   September 7, 2020 3:12:51 PM CEST   Success<br \/>\nOS user 'oracle'creation                 September 7, 2020 3:12:51 PM CEST   September 7, 2020 3:12:52 PM CEST   Success<br \/>\nDefault backup policy creation           September 7, 2020 3:12:52 PM CEST   September 7, 2020 3:12:52 PM CEST   Success<br \/>\nBackup config metadata persist           September 7, 2020 3:12:52 PM CEST   September 7, 2020 3:12:52 PM CEST   Success<br \/>\nSSH equivalance setup                    September 7, 2020 3:12:52 PM CEST   September 7, 2020 3:12:52 PM CEST   Success<br \/>\nGrid home creation                       September 7, 2020 3:13:08 PM CEST   September 7, 2020 3:29:00 PM CEST   Success<br \/>\nCreating GI home directories             September 7, 2020 3:13:08 PM CEST   September 7, 2020 3:13:08 PM CEST   Success<br \/>\nCloning Gi home                          September 7, 2020 3:13:08 PM CEST   September 7, 2020 3:15:13 PM CEST   Success<br \/>\nCloning Gi home                          September 7, 2020 3:15:13 PM CEST   September 7, 2020 3:28:57 PM CEST   Success<br \/>\nUpdating GiHome version                  September 7, 2020 3:28:57 PM CEST   September 7, 2020 3:29:00 PM CEST   Success<br \/>\nUpdating GiHome version                  September 7, 2020 3:28:57 PM CEST   September 7, 2020 3:29:00 PM CEST   Success<br \/>\nStorage discovery                        September 7, 2020 3:29:00 PM CEST   September 7, 2020 3:40:26 PM CEST   Success<br \/>\nGrid stack creation                      September 7, 2020 3:40:26 PM CEST   September 7, 2020 3:45:21 PM CEST   Failure<br \/>\nConfiguring GI                           September 7, 2020 3:40:26 PM CEST   September 7, 2020 3:41:59 PM CEST   Success<br \/>\nRunning GI root scripts                  September 7, 2020 3:41:59 PM CEST   September 7, 2020 3:45:21 PM CEST   Failure<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Troubleshooting the logs I found that there were errors in creating the disk group +DATA :<br \/>\n<code>[root@oak0 ODA_patch]# <strong>more  \/u01\/app\/19.0.0.0\/grid\/install\/root_node0_name_2020-09-07_15-41-59-761776313.log<\/strong><br \/>\n...<br \/>\n...<br \/>\n...<br \/>\nSQL*Plus: Release 19.0.0.0.0 - Production on Mon Sep 7 15:45:00 2020<br \/>\nVersion 19.8.0.0.0<\/p>\n<p>Copyright (c) 1982, 2020, Oracle.  All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>Connected to an idle instance.<\/p>\n<p>ASM instance started<\/p>\n<p>Total System Global Area 1137173320 bytes<br \/>\nFixed Size                  8905544 bytes<br \/>\nVariable Size            1103101952 bytes<br \/>\nASM Cache                  25165824 bytes<br \/>\nORA-15032: not all alterations performed<br \/>\nORA-15036: Disk 'AFD:HDD_E0_S03_1732452488P1' is truncated to 4671744 MB from<br \/>\n7941632 MB.<br \/>\nORA-15036: Disk 'AFD:HDD_E0_S02_1732457496P1' is truncated to 4671744 MB from<br \/>\n7941632 MB.<br \/>\nORA-15036: Disk 'AFD:HDD_E0_S01_1732376280P1' is truncated to 4671744 MB from<br \/>\n7941632 MB.<br \/>\nORA-15036: Disk 'AFD:HDD_E0_S00_1733177556P1' is truncated to 4671744 MB from<br \/>\n7941632 MB.<\/p>\n<p>create diskgroup DATA NORMAL REDUNDANCY<br \/>\n*<br \/>\nERROR at line 1:<br \/>\nORA-15018: diskgroup cannot be created<br \/>\nORA-15033: disk 'AFD:HDD_E0_S03_1732452488P1' belongs to diskgroup \"DATA\"<br \/>\nORA-15033: disk 'AFD:HDD_E0_S02_1732457496P1' belongs to diskgroup \"DATA\"<br \/>\nORA-15033: disk 'AFD:HDD_E0_S01_1732376280P1' belongs to diskgroup \"DATA\"<br \/>\nORA-15033: disk 'AFD:HDD_E0_S00_1733177556P1' belongs to diskgroup \"DATA\"<\/p>\n<p>create spfile='+DATA' from pfile='\/u01\/app\/19.0.0.0\/grid\/dbs\/init_+ASM1.ora'<br \/>\n*<br \/>\nERROR at line 1:<br \/>\nORA-17635: failure in obtaining physical sector size for '+DATA'<\/code><\/p>\n<p>And I could realized that this was due because the ODA was previously used and shelf storage disks have not been cleared.<\/p>\n<h3>Performing Secure Erase of Data on Storage Disks<\/h3>\n<p>I then decided to erase data on the storage disk.<\/p>\n<p><code>[root@node0_name ~]#<strong> ps -ef | grep pmon<\/strong><br \/>\ngrid      5652     1  0 15:45 ?        00:00:00 asm_pmon_+ASM1<br \/>\nroot     57503 56032  0 15:59 pts\/1    00:00:00 grep --color=auto pmon<\/p>\n<p>[root@node0_name ~]# <strong>odaadmcli stop oak<\/strong><br \/>\n2020-09-07 16:02:38.815975760:[init.oak]:[Error : Operation not permitted while software upgrade is in progress ...]<\/p>\n<p>[root@node0_name ~]# <strong>\/u01\/app\/19.0.0.0\/grid\/bin\/crsctl stop crs -f<\/strong><br \/>\nCRS-2791: Starting shutdown of Oracle High Availability Services-managed resources on 'node0_name'<br \/>\nCRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.asm' on 'node0_name'<br \/>\nCRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.drivers.acfs' on 'node0_name'<br \/>\nCRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.mdnsd' on 'node0_name'<br \/>\nCRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.drivers.acfs' on 'node0_name' succeeded<br \/>\nCRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.mdnsd' on 'node0_name' succeeded<br \/>\nCRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.asm' on 'node0_name' succeeded<br \/>\nCRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.ctssd' on 'node0_name'<br \/>\nCRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.evmd' on 'node0_name'<br \/>\nCRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.ctssd' on 'node0_name' succeeded<br \/>\nCRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.evmd' on 'node0_name' succeeded<br \/>\nCRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.cssd' on 'node0_name'<br \/>\nCRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.cssd' on 'node0_name' succeeded<br \/>\nCRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.gpnpd' on 'node0_name'<br \/>\nCRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.gipcd' on 'node0_name'<br \/>\nCRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.driver.afd' on 'node0_name'<br \/>\nCRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.driver.afd' on 'node0_name' succeeded<br \/>\nCRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.gpnpd' on 'node0_name' succeeded<br \/>\nCRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.gipcd' on 'node0_name' succeeded<br \/>\nCRS-2793: Shutdown of Oracle High Availability Services-managed resources on 'node0_name' has completed<br \/>\nCRS-4133: Oracle High Availability Services has been stopped.<\/p>\n<p>[root@node0_name app]#<strong> \/opt\/oracle\/oak\/bin\/odaeraser.py<\/strong><br \/>\nPlease stop oakd and GI\/DB applications before running this program<br \/>\n[root@node0_name app]#<\/code><\/p>\n<p>So it is cleared, as per the system, knowing there is an ongoing provisioning, we can not stop oak and therefore not run odaeraser python script.<\/p>\n<h3>Execute cleanup script<\/h3>\n<p>So no other choice than running the ODA cleanup script. Erase data is also an option of this script, so all good. I have been doing the needful for both the nodes.<\/p>\n<p><code>[root@node0_name app]# <strong>perl \/opt\/oracle\/oak\/onecmd\/cleanup.pl -griduser grid -dbuser oracle -erasedata<\/strong><br \/>\nINFO: *******************************************************************<br \/>\nINFO: ** Starting process to cleanup provisioned host node0_name        **<br \/>\nINFO: *******************************************************************<br \/>\nWARNING: Secure Erase is an irrecoverable process. All data on the disk<br \/>\nWARNING: will be erased, and cannot be recovered by any means. On X3-2,<br \/>\nWARNING: X4-2, and X5-2 HA, the secure erase process can take more than<br \/>\nWARNING: 10 hours. If you need this data, then take a complete backup<br \/>\nWARNING: before proceeding.<br \/>\nDo you want to continue (yes\/no) : yes<br \/>\nINFO: nodes will be rebooted<br \/>\nDo you want to continue (yes\/no) : yes<br \/>\nINFO: \/u01\/app\/19.0.0.0\/grid\/.patch_storage\/31548513_Jul_10_2020_12_12_45\/files\/bin\/crsctl.bin<br \/>\n...<br \/>\n...<br \/>\n...<br \/>\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br \/>\nLabel                     Filtering   Path<br \/>\n================================================================================<br \/>\nHDD_E0_S00_1733177556P1     ENABLED   \/dev\/mapper\/HDD_E0_S00_1733177556p1<br \/>\nHDD_E0_S00_1733177556P2     ENABLED   \/dev\/mapper\/HDD_E0_S00_1733177556p2<br \/>\nHDD_E0_S01_1732376280P1     ENABLED   \/dev\/mapper\/HDD_E0_S01_1732376280p1<br \/>\nHDD_E0_S01_1732376280P2     ENABLED   \/dev\/mapper\/HDD_E0_S01_1732376280p2<br \/>\nHDD_E0_S02_1732457496P1     ENABLED   \/dev\/mapper\/HDD_E0_S02_1732457496p1<br \/>\nHDD_E0_S02_1732457496P2     ENABLED   \/dev\/mapper\/HDD_E0_S02_1732457496p2<br \/>\nHDD_E0_S03_1732452488P1     ENABLED   \/dev\/mapper\/HDD_E0_S03_1732452488p1<br \/>\nHDD_E0_S03_1732452488P2     ENABLED   \/dev\/mapper\/HDD_E0_S03_1732452488p2<br \/>\nHDD_E0_S04_1733016128P1     ENABLED   \/dev\/mapper\/HDD_E0_S04_1733016128p1<br \/>\nHDD_E0_S04_1733016128P2     ENABLED   \/dev\/mapper\/HDD_E0_S04_1733016128p2<br \/>\nHDD_E0_S05_1732360364P1     ENABLED   \/dev\/mapper\/HDD_E0_S05_1732360364p1<br \/>\nHDD_E0_S05_1732360364P2     ENABLED   \/dev\/mapper\/HDD_E0_S05_1732360364p2<br \/>\nHDD_E0_S06_1732360644P1     ENABLED   \/dev\/mapper\/HDD_E0_S06_1732360644p1<br \/>\nHDD_E0_S06_1732360644P2     ENABLED   \/dev\/mapper\/HDD_E0_S06_1732360644p2<br \/>\nHDD_E0_S07_1732123852P1     ENABLED   \/dev\/mapper\/HDD_E0_S07_1732123852p1<br \/>\nHDD_E0_S07_1732123852P2     ENABLED   \/dev\/mapper\/HDD_E0_S07_1732123852p2<br \/>\nHDD_E0_S08_1733366676P1     ENABLED   \/dev\/mapper\/HDD_E0_S08_1733366676p1<br \/>\nHDD_E0_S08_1733366676P2     ENABLED   \/dev\/mapper\/HDD_E0_S08_1733366676p2<br \/>\nHDD_E0_S09_1733005616P1     ENABLED   \/dev\/mapper\/HDD_E0_S09_1733005616p1<br \/>\nHDD_E0_S09_1733005616P2     ENABLED   \/dev\/mapper\/HDD_E0_S09_1733005616p2<br \/>\nHDD_E0_S10_1733304324P1     ENABLED   \/dev\/mapper\/HDD_E0_S10_1733304324p1<br \/>\nHDD_E0_S10_1733304324P2     ENABLED   \/dev\/mapper\/HDD_E0_S10_1733304324p2<br \/>\nHDD_E0_S11_1733286472P1     ENABLED   \/dev\/mapper\/HDD_E0_S11_1733286472p1<br \/>\nHDD_E0_S11_1733286472P2     ENABLED   \/dev\/mapper\/HDD_E0_S11_1733286472p2<br \/>\nHDD_E0_S12_1732005336P1     ENABLED   \/dev\/mapper\/HDD_E0_S12_1732005336p1<br \/>\nHDD_E0_S12_1732005336P2     ENABLED   \/dev\/mapper\/HDD_E0_S12_1732005336p2<br \/>\nHDD_E0_S13_1733060756P1     ENABLED   \/dev\/mapper\/HDD_E0_S13_1733060756p1<br \/>\nHDD_E0_S13_1733060756P2     ENABLED   \/dev\/mapper\/HDD_E0_S13_1733060756p2<br \/>\nHDD_E0_S14_1733060744P1     ENABLED   \/dev\/mapper\/HDD_E0_S14_1733060744p1<br \/>\nHDD_E0_S14_1733060744P2     ENABLED   \/dev\/mapper\/HDD_E0_S14_1733060744p2<br \/>\nSSD_E0_S15_2701225596P1     ENABLED   \/dev\/mapper\/SSD_E0_S15_2701225596p1<br \/>\nSSD_E0_S16_2701244384P1     ENABLED   \/dev\/mapper\/SSD_E0_S16_2701244384p1<br \/>\nSSD_E0_S17_2701254344P1     ENABLED   \/dev\/mapper\/SSD_E0_S17_2701254344p1<br \/>\nSSD_E0_S18_2701254500P1     ENABLED   \/dev\/mapper\/SSD_E0_S18_2701254500p1<br \/>\nSSD_E0_S19_2701253460P1     ENABLED   \/dev\/mapper\/SSD_E0_S19_2701253460p1<br \/>\nSSD_E0_S20_2617542596P1     ENABLED   \/dev\/mapper\/SSD_E0_S20_2617542596p1<br \/>\nSSD_E0_S21_2617528156P1     ENABLED   \/dev\/mapper\/SSD_E0_S21_2617528156p1<br \/>\nSSD_E0_S22_2617509504P1     ENABLED   \/dev\/mapper\/SSD_E0_S22_2617509504p1<br \/>\nSSD_E0_S23_2617546936P1     ENABLED   \/dev\/mapper\/SSD_E0_S23_2617546936p1<br \/>\n...<br \/>\n...<br \/>\n...<br \/>\nINFO: Executing<br \/>\nStart erasing disks on the system<br \/>\nOn some platforms, this will take several hours to finish, please wait<br \/>\nDo you want to continue (yes|no) [yes] ?<br \/>\nNumber of disks are processing: 0<\/p>\n<p>Disk     Vendor     Model                    Erase method         Status       Time(seconds)<br \/>\ne0_pd_00 HGST       H7210A520SUN010T         SCSI crypto erase    success               0<br \/>\ne0_pd_01 HGST       H7210A520SUN010T         SCSI crypto erase    success               0<br \/>\ne0_pd_02 HGST       H7210A520SUN010T         SCSI crypto erase    success               0<br \/>\ne0_pd_03 HGST       H7210A520SUN010[18173.972533] reboot: Restarting system<br \/>\n...<br \/>\n...<br \/>\n...<\/code><\/p>\n<p>The erase process seems to have been run successfully. This can be checked with checkheader option as well :<br \/>\n<code>[root@node0_name ~]# <strong>perl \/opt\/oracle\/oak\/onecmd\/cleanup.pl -checkHeader<\/strong><br \/>\nDCS config is - \/opt\/oracle\/dcs\/conf\/dcs-agent.jsonINFO: Emulation mode is set to FALSE<br \/>\nCommand may take few minutes...<br \/>\nOS Disk               Disk Type    OAK Header   ASM Header(p1)       ASM Header(p2)      Error: \/dev\/sdaa: unrecognised disk label<\/p>\n<p>\/dev\/sdaa               HDD       Erased          Erased              UnKnownError: \/dev\/sdab: unrecognised disk label<\/p>\n<p>\/dev\/sdab               HDD       Erased          Erased              UnKnownError: \/dev\/sdac: unrecognised disk label<\/p>\n<p>\/dev\/sdac               HDD       Erased          Erased              UnKnownError: \/dev\/sdad: unrecognised disk label<\/p>\n<p>\/dev\/sdad               HDD       Erased          Erased              UnKnownError: \/dev\/sdae: unrecognised disk label<\/p>\n<p>\/dev\/sdae               HDD       Erased          Erased              UnKnownError: \/dev\/sdaf: unrecognised disk label<\/p>\n<p>\/dev\/sdaf               HDD       Erased          Erased              UnKnownError: \/dev\/sdag: unrecognised disk label<\/p>\n<p>...<br \/>\n...<br \/>\n...<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p>The odaeraser python script could even be now executed. Adding no other value than checking as the disks have already been cleanup :<br \/>\n<code>[root@node0_name ~]# <strong>\/opt\/oracle\/oak\/bin\/odaeraser.py<\/strong><br \/>\nStart erasing disks on the system<br \/>\nOn some platforms, this will take several hours to finish, please wait<br \/>\nDo you want to continue (yes|no) [yes] ? yes<br \/>\nNumber of disks are processing: 0<\/p>\n<p>Disk     Vendor     Model                    Erase method         Status       Time(seconds)<br \/>\ne0_pd_00 HGST       H7210A520SUN010T         SCSI crypto erase    success               0<br \/>\ne0_pd_01 HGST       H7210A520SUN010T         SCSI crypto erase    success               0<br \/>\ne0_pd_02 HGST       H7210A520SUN010T         SCSI crypto erase    success               0<br \/>\ne0_pd_03 HGST       H7210A520SUN010T         SCSI crypto erase    success               0<br \/>\ne0_pd_04 HGST       H7210A520SUN010T         SCSI crypto erase    success               0<br \/>\ne0_pd_05 HGST       H7210A520SUN010T         SCSI crypto erase    success               0<br \/>\ne0_pd_06 HGST       H7210A520SUN010T         SCSI crypto erase    success               0<br \/>\ne0_pd_07 HGST       H7210A520SUN010T         SCSI crypto erase    success               0<br \/>\ne0_pd_08 HGST       H7210A520SUN010T         SCSI crypto erase    success               0<br \/>\ne0_pd_09 HGST       H7210A520SUN010T         SCSI crypto erase    success               0<br \/>\ne0_pd_10 HGST       H7210A520SUN010T         SCSI crypto erase    success               0<br \/>\ne0_pd_11 HGST       H7210A520SUN010T         SCSI crypto erase    success               0<br \/>\ne0_pd_12 HGST       H7210A520SUN010T         SCSI crypto erase    success               0<br \/>\ne0_pd_13 HGST       H7210A520SUN010T         SCSI crypto erase    success               0<br \/>\ne0_pd_14 HGST       H7210A520SUN010T         SCSI crypto erase    success               0<br \/>\ne0_pd_15 HGST       HBCAC2DH2SUN3.2T         SCSI crypto erase    success               0<br \/>\ne0_pd_16 HGST       HBCAC2DH2SUN3.2T         SCSI crypto erase    success               0<br \/>\ne0_pd_17 HGST       HBCAC2DH2SUN3.2T         SCSI crypto erase    success               0<br \/>\ne0_pd_18 HGST       HBCAC2DH2SUN3.2T         SCSI crypto erase    success               0<br \/>\ne0_pd_19 HGST       HBCAC2DH2SUN3.2T         SCSI crypto erase    success               0<br \/>\ne0_pd_20 HGST       HBCAC2DH4SUN800G         SCSI crypto erase    success               0<br \/>\ne0_pd_21 HGST       HBCAC2DH4SUN800G         SCSI crypto erase    success               0<br \/>\ne0_pd_22 HGST       HBCAC2DH4SUN800G         SCSI crypto erase    success               0<br \/>\ne0_pd_23 HGST       HBCAC2DH4SUN800G         SCSI crypto erase    success               0<br \/>\n[root@node0_name ~]#<\/code><\/p>\n<h3>Force option form perl cleanup script<\/h3>\n<p>I then tried to create the appliance again. And I was surprised that it was still not possible to create the appliance even after running cleanup.pl script. The same message was displayed even in the web gui : &#8220;There was an error in configuring Oracle Database Appliance&#8230;.For more information about running the cleanup script, see the Deployment and User&#8217;s Guide for your model.&#8221; See picture below :<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-43687\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/appliance_error_gui-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"109\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The only solution was to use the force option in the cleanup.pl script!!! Running following command solved my problem :<br \/>\n<code>[root@node0_name ~]# <strong>perl \/opt\/oracle\/oak\/onecmd\/cleanup.pl -f<\/strong><\/code><\/p>\n<p>Then all was ok, even in the gui, as described in below picture :<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-43689\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/appliance_ok_gui-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"127\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had recently faced an interesting issue deploying ODA X8-2-HA. 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