How to GNS process log level for diagnostic purposes?

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Hello Everyone,

This is one of my fist posts under Pythian’s blog. I will try to keep those short and simple at the beginning.

Recently I was troubleshooting a new GNS (Grid Name Services) functionality.

For more information please see here: Oracle Clusterware Network Configuration Concepts.

I have noticed that there is a-trace-level parameter in the GNS process string.
# ps -ef | grep gns
root 26790 1 2 14:41 ? 00:00:00 /u01/app/11.2.0/grid/bin/gnsd.bin -trace-level 0 -ip-address 10.10.193.201 -startup-endpoint ipc://GNS_hostrac01_23867_408c49e351f1f6a8
root 26825 17210 0 14:41 pts/1 00:00:00 grep gns

Unfortunately there is no description as of now in the documentation or MOS on how to change it to generate invaluable diagnostic information.
NOTE: I am sure the documentation will be updated in Database 12c version (c for Cloud ;)

For a time being the following should work for you:

# /u01/app/11.2.0/grid/bin/crsctl modify resource ora.gns -attr "TRACE_LEVEL=6"
# /u01/app/11.2.0/grid/bin/srvctl stop gns
# /u01/app/11.2.0/grid/bin/srvctl start gns

I hope that this advice will help you to diagnose your GNS issue.

I will blog about the way I resolved future GNS-related issues later on.

It looks like I have said too much for my very first post already.

See you around,

Yury

Just another DBA from down under

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Yury is a nice person who enjoys meeting and working with people on challenging projects in the Oracle space. He started to work as an Oracle DBA 14 years ago (1997). For the past 10 years (since 2001) his main area of expertise is Oracle e-Business Suite. Yury is an OCP 7,8,9,10g and OCM 9i,10g. He is a frequent presenter at Oracle related conferences such as Hotsos, UKOUG and AUOUG. Yury is a socially active person. Apart from Social Media (Twitter, Bloging, Facebook) he is the primary organizer of Sydney Oracle Meetup group (250 people). So if you happen to be in Sydney (Australia) drop Yury a message and stop by at one of his Meetups.

2 Comments. Leave new

Hi Yury,

thanks for the hint and congratulations on your 1st blogpost! Keep them coming!

Maris

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Yury - a DBA from down under
August 31, 2010 6:17 am

Hey Maris!

Thank you for your warm Welcome!
I will try my best to highlight my best findings in regular DBA work here from now on.

Stay tuned ;)

Yury

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