{"id":8086,"date":"2016-05-30T19:07:54","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T17:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/where-is-the-asm-spfile\/"},"modified":"2016-05-30T19:07:54","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T17:07:54","slug":"where-is-the-asm-spfile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dbi-services.com\/blog\/where-is-the-asm-spfile\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is the ASM SPFILE?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>By Franck Pachot<\/h2>\n<p>.<br \/>\nIn the previous <a href=\"http:\/\/dbi-services.com\/blog\/learning-and-troubleshooting-follow-the-path\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blog post<\/a>, to the question &#8220;where is the ASM SPFILE&#8221; I answered by running &#8216;asmcmd spget&#8217;. But this is available only if the ASM instance is started. If you have corrupted your SPFILE (and it&#8217;s easy to do it) you can start with a local PFILE and the CREATE SPFILE= FROM PFILE. But then you get the location of the local one you used. If you need to know the shared location, let&#8217;s see the different places where you can find it.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nFirst I set the environment for the ASM instance.<\/p>\n<pre><code>\n[grid@racp1vm1 ~]$ . oraenv &lt;&lt;&lt; +ASM1\nORACLE_SID = [grid] ? The Oracle base has been set to \/u01\/app\/grid\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>If the ASM instance is up you can get the SPFILE location from ASMCMD:<\/p>\n<pre><code>\n[grid@racp1vm1 ~]$ asmcmd spget\n+CRS_DG\/ws-dbi-scan1\/ASMPARAMETERFILE\/registry.253.905527691\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>or from SQL*Plus:<\/p>\n<pre><code>\n[grid@racp1vm1 ~]$ sqlplus -s \/ as sysasm\nshow parameter spfile\n&nbsp;\nNAME                                 TYPE        VALUE\n------------------------------------ ----------- ------------------------------\nspfile                               string      +CRS_DG\/ws-dbi-scan1\/ASMPARAME\n                                                 TERFILE\/registry.253.905527691\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>If the ASM instance us up but started with another SPFILE (or PFILE) you can search for a SPFILE in all diskgroups:<\/p>\n<pre><code>\n[grid@racp1vm1 ~]$ asmcmd find --type PARAMETERFILE '*' '*'\n+CRS_DG\/_MGMTDB\/PARAMETERFILE\/spfile.268.905529015\n+DATA\/RACDB\/PARAMETERFILE\/spfile.269.906247759\n+DATA\/RACDB\/spfileRACDB.ora\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>But if ASM instance is not up, let&#8217;s see where we can find its location.<\/p>\n<h3>From GPnP tool<\/h3>\n<p>The cluster needs to know the SPFILE location in order to start the ASM instance, and for this purpose, location is stored in the GPnP profile<\/p>\n<pre><code>\n[grid@racp1vm1 ~]$ gpnptool get -o- | xmllint --format - | grep SPFile\nSuccess.\n  &lt;orcl:ASM-Profile id=\"asm\" DiscoveryString=\"\" SPFile=\"+CRS_DG\/ws-dbi-scan1\/ASMPARAMETERFILE\/registry.253.905527691\" Mode=\"remote\"\/&gt;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Of course you can get it directly from the GPnP profile xml file<\/p>\n<pre><code>\n[grid@racp1vm1 ~]$ xmllint --shell $ORACLE_HOME\/gpnp\/$HOSTNAME\/profiles\/peer\/profile.xml &lt;&lt;&lt; &quot;cat \/\/*[@SPFile]\/@SPFile&quot;\n SPFile=&quot;+CRS_DG\/ws-dbi-scan1\/ASMPARAMETERFILE\/registry.253.905527691&quot;\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>If you messed-up the GPnP profile, you may want to find the previous value.<\/p>\n<h3>From alert.log<\/h3>\n<p>If the ASM instance has been startup previously, which is probably the case, you can see the location of SPFILE in the alert.log:<\/p>\n<pre><code>\n[grid@racp1vm1 ~]$ adrci exec=\"set home +asm ; show alert -tail 1000\" | grep \"parameter setting\"\nUsing parameter settings in server-side spfile +CRS_DG\/ws-dbi-scan1\/ASMPARAMETERFILE\/registry.253.905527691\nUsing parameter settings in server-side spfile +CRS_DG\/ws-dbi-scan1\/ASMPARAMETERFILE\/registry.253.905527691\nUsing parameter settings in server-side spfile +CRS_DG\/ws-dbi-scan1\/ASMPARAMETERFILE\/registry.253.905527691\nUsing parameter settings in server-side spfile +CRS_DG\/ws-dbi-scan1\/ASMPARAMETERFILE\/registry.253.905527691\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<h3>$ORACLE_HOME\/dbs<\/h3>\n<p>What is important to know is that there is nothing in $ORACLE_HOME\/dbs<\/p>\n<pre><code>\n[grid@racp1vm1 ~]$ ls $ORACLE_HOME\/dbs\nab_+ASM1.dat  hc_+APX1.dat  hc_+ASM1.dat  hc_-MGMTDB.dat  id_+ASM1.dat  init-MGMTDB.ora  init.ora  lk_MGMTDB\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>and the ASM instance startup looks up there only if not found from the GPnP profile.<\/p>\n<h3>Backup the ASM SPFILE<\/h3>\n<p>It&#8217;s always a good idea to backup the SPFILE, in the same way you backup the OCR, and GPnP profile.<\/p>\n<pre><code>\n[grid@racp1vm1 ~]$ asmcmd spbackup +CRS_DG\/ws-dbi-scan1\/ASMPARAMETERFILE\/registry.253.905527691 \/tmp\/asmspfile.bak\n<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Franck Pachot . In the previous blog post, to the question &#8220;where is the ASM SPFILE&#8221; I answered by running &#8216;asmcmd spget&#8217;. But this is available only if the ASM instance is started. 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