PROC-50 PROT-30: The Oracle Cluster Registry location to be added is not usable

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Error Description

Oracleasm listdisks shows the disk but Ocrconfig -add command failed with following error message.

[root@]# ocrconfig -add +DATA

PROT-30: The Oracle Cluster Registry location to be added is not usable

PROC-50: The Oracle Cluster Registry location to be added is inaccessible on nodes Node203.

Solution description:

[oracle~]$ oracleasm listdisks;

DATA

DATA_T2

OCRVOTE

[root@]# ocrconfig -add +DATA

PROT-30: The Oracle Cluster Registry location to be added is not usable

PROC-50: The Oracle Cluster Registry location to be added is inaccessible on nodes Node203.

You should check the oracle mapping for the disk group. Here in this case the DATA disk mapped to DATA_T1 in the Oracle ASM disk group rather than the disk shows in the oracleasm listdisks command. You should use ocrconfig -add +DATA_T1 command to add ocr.

SQL> select dg.name ,d.path

from v$asm_diskgroup dg, v$asm_disk d

where dg.group_number=d.group_number;

NAME                           PATH

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DATA_T2                        ORCL:DATA_T2

DATA_T1                        ORCL:DATA

OCRVOTE                        ORCL:OCRVOTE

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