How to Install and deinstall Oracle Text in 12.1.0.2

This post demonstrates how to deinstall / install Oracle Text in 12.1.0.2. Before doing so, DBA should make sure and understand the component dependencies as below.

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How to Install and deinstall Oracle Text in 11.2.0.4

This post demonstrates how to deinstall / install Oracle Text in 11.2.0.4. Before doing so, DBA should make sure and understand the component dependency as below.

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When Do You Need Startup Upgrade For OJVM PSU/RU Patches

While applying Combo of OJVM and Database Release Update 19.9.0.0.201020, something comes to my mind that when and why “startup upgrade” is needed ? Is it possible to startup database in normal mode before running datapatch command for post-installation step?

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Failed to connect to ASM instance. The connection is closed: The connection is closed

One client OEM reports the following incidents intermittently from OEM 13c.

Host=racnode1.virtuallab
Target type=Automatic Storage Management
Target name=+ASM1_racnode1.virtuallab
Categories=Availability
Message=Failed to connect to ASM instance. The connection is closed: The connection is closed
Severity=Fatal
Event reported time=20/12/2020 09:19:01AM EST
Target Lifecycle Status=Test
Operating System=LINUX
Platform=X86_64
Associated Incident Id=12345
Associated Incident Status=New
Associated Incident Owner=oracle
Associated Incident Acknowledged By Owner=No
Associated Incident Priority=High
Associated Incident Escalation Level=0
Event Type=Target Availability
Event name=Status
Availability status=Down

Let’s do some investigations, and provide the easy workaround if patches are unavailable to some clients.

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ORA-24327: need explicit attach before authenticating a user (DBD ERROR: OCISessionBegin)

One of the OEM agent log has the following error, and some of the jobs fail due to the database connection issues:

$ grep ORA-24327 *
gcagent.log.16:em_error=Could not connect to dbsnmp/(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=racnode1.virtuallab)(Port=1521))(CONNECT_DATA=(SID=RACTESTDB1))): ORA-24327: need explicit attach before authenticating a user (DBD ERROR: OCISessionBegin)

The output from CA( Corrective Action) job:

Connector descriptor is (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=racnode1.virtuallab)(PORT=1521))(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=RACTESTDB)(SERVER=DEDICATED)))
Could not connect to SYSTEM/(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=racnode1.virtuallab)(PORT=1521))(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=RACTESTDB)(SERVER=DEDICATED))):ORA-24327: need explicit attach before authenticating a user (DBD ERROR: OCISessionBegin)

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