NOTE: Refresh completed on diskgroup TEST. No voting file found.
Today one of my friend asked a question. After upgrading from 10G to 11G. He created a diskgroup named as TEST and tried to add a disk into the diskgroup. After adding he got the below messages in alert log of ASM.
NOTE: skipping rediscovery for group 3/0x7dcf700 (TEST) on local instance.
Sat Aug 15 21:28:50 2015
NOTE: initiating PST update: grp = 3
Sat Aug 15 21:28:50 2015
GMON updating group 3 at 23 for pid 32, osid 2732192
NOTE: PST update grp = 3 completed successfully
NOTE: membership refresh pending for group 3/0x7dcf700 (TEST)
GMON querying group 3 at 24 for pid 18, osid 1921084
NOTE: cache opening disk 1 of grp 3: TEST_0001 path:/dev/rhdisk86
GMON querying group 3 at 25 for pid 18, osid 1921084
SUCCESS: refreshed membership for 3/0x7dcf700 (TEST)
SUCCESS: ALTER DISKGROUP TEST ADD DISK ‘/dev/rhdisk86’ rebalance power 8
Sat Aug 15 21:28:56 2015
NOTE: Attempting voting file refresh on diskgroup TEST
NOTE: Refresh completed on diskgroup TEST. No voting file found.
NOTE: starting rebalance of group 3/0x7dcf700 (TEST) at power 8
Starting background process ARB0
Sat Aug 15 21:28:56 2015
ARB0 started with pid=34, OS id=3338394
NOTE: assigning ARB0 to group 3/0x7dcf700 (TEST) with 8 parallel I/Os
cellip.ora not found.
Sat Aug 15 21:29:02 2015
NOTE: GroupBlock outside rolling migration privileged region
NOTE: requesting all-instance membership refresh for group=3
NOTE: membership refresh pending for group 3/0x7dcf700 (TEST)
Sat Aug 15 21:29:07 2015
NOTE: stopping process ARB0
SUCCESS: rebalance completed for group 3/0x7dcf700 (TEST)
Sat Aug 15 21:29:08 2015
GMON querying group 3 at 26 for pid 18, osid 1921084
SUCCESS: refreshed membership for 3/0x7dcf700 (TEST)
NOTE: Attempting voting file refresh on diskgroup TEST
NOTE: Refresh completed on diskgroup TEST. No voting file found.
After seeing the message “No voting file found” , he thought that there is a problem with the asm. This is not an error , this can be ignored if Voting disks are not present in the ASM. As that is the default in the 11GR2.
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