GIMR

GI 19.31 and 19.32: trace file flooding in mgmtca.trc can happen

Thanks to Peter Lehmann who always alerts me about findings and encounters he had in his test and production RAC cluster environments. Peter dropped me an email the other day, and I share his suspicion that this may effect many in the coming weeks operating RAC environments. If you don’t have a RAC, you may not see this happening with GI 19.31 and 19.32: trace file flooding in mgmtca.trc can happen.

GI 19.31 and 19.32: trace file flooding in mgmtca.trc can happen

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What happens?

It took me a bit of searching, and Peter collected a lot of information already.

Two months after patching GI …

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GIMR DB in Oracle Database 12.2

I did blog in the past already about the Grid Infrastructure Management Repository Database (GIMR DB):

SID and DBNAME are kept the same in Oracle Database 12.2. But there are a few changes and additions in Oracle Database 12.2.0.1.

GIMR DB in its own Disk Group

During a fresh installation of Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12.2.0.1 you’ll have the chance to create a disk group for GIMR DB:

GIMR DB in Oracle Database 12.2

GIMR DB – Gets its own disk group in Oracle 12.2

But you can migrate GIMR DB into a separate disk …

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Grid Infrastructure Management Repository (GIMR) – Datapatch?

I have blogged about the Grid Infrastructure Management Repository (GIMR) a while back:

And Markus Michalewicz, our Director of Product Management, Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC), has published a very interesting and helpful insight article about GIMR on July 30, 2015. Read it here:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-handle-oracle-gimr-markus-michalewicz


Since Oracle Database 12.1.0.2 the GIMR database will be created by default – and it is a single tenant database having a CDB$ROOT and one active PDB.

Recently the question came up if – in the likely event of applying a PSU …

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