ORA-15097: cannot SHUTDOWN ASM instance with connected client

In 11g R2 Clusterware configurations the OCR is located in ASM disk, that’s why ASM can’t be shutdown while the cluster is running.  You have to shutdown your cluster in order to shutdown ASM instance.

Oracle support note 984663.1

Here’s a good blog about this:

http://divakarmehta.wordpress.com/2012/04/19/how-crs-accesses-ocr-in-oracle-asm-during-11-2-grid-infra-rac-startup/

Example, how to shutdown ASM instance on node ol5-112-rac1:

[oracle@ol5-112-rac1 ~]$ crsctl status resource -t

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NAME           TARGET  STATE        SERVER                   STATE_DETAILS

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Local Resources

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ora.DATA.dg

               ONLINE  ONLINE       ol5-112-rac1

               ONLINE  ONLINE       ol5-112-rac2

ora.FRA.dg

               OFFLINE OFFLINE      ol5-112-rac1

               ONLINE  ONLINE       ol5-112-rac2

ora.LISTENER.lsnr

               ONLINE  ONLINE       ol5-112-rac1

               ONLINE  ONLINE       ol5-112-rac2

ora.asm

               ONLINE  ONLINE       ol5-112-rac1

               ONLINE  ONLINE       ol5-112-rac2             Started

ora.eons

               ONLINE  ONLINE       ol5-112-rac1

               ONLINE  ONLINE       ol5-112-rac2

ora.gsd

               OFFLINE OFFLINE      ol5-112-rac1

               OFFLINE OFFLINE      ol5-112-rac2

ora.net1.network

               ONLINE  ONLINE       ol5-112-rac1

               ONLINE  ONLINE       ol5-112-rac2

ora.ons

               ONLINE  ONLINE       ol5-112-rac1

               ONLINE  ONLINE       ol5-112-rac2

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Cluster Resources

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ora.LISTENER_SCAN1.lsnr

      1        ONLINE  ONLINE       ol5-112-rac1

ora.oc4j

      1        OFFLINE OFFLINE

ora.ol5-112-rac1.vip

      1        ONLINE  ONLINE       ol5-112-rac1

ora.ol5-112-rac2.vip

      1        ONLINE  ONLINE       ol5-112-rac2

ora.rac.db

      1        ONLINE  ONLINE       ol5-112-rac2             Open

      2        ONLINE  ONLINE       ol5-112-rac1

ora.rac.reports.svc

      1        ONLINE  ONLINE       ol5-112-rac1

ora.scan1.vip

      1        ONLINE  ONLINE       ol5-112-rac1

[oracle@ol5-112-rac1 ~]$

Shutdown RAC1 instance first:

[oracle@ol5-112-rac1 ~]$ srvctl stop instance –d RAC –I RAC1 –o immediate

Then proceed to shutdown cluster (root required):

[oracle@ol5-112-rac1 ~]$ su -

[root@ol5-112-rac1 bin]#

[root@ol5-112-rac1 bin]# ./crsctl stop cluster

CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.crsd' on 'ol5-112-rac1'

CRS-2790: Starting shutdown of Cluster Ready Services-managed resources on 'ol5-112-rac1'

CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.LISTENER.lsnr' on 'ol5-112-rac1'

CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.DATA.dg' on 'ol5-112-rac1'

CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.LISTENER.lsnr' on 'ol5-112-rac1' succeeded

CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.ol5-112-rac1.vip' on 'ol5-112-rac1'

CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.ol5-112-rac1.vip' on 'ol5-112-rac1' succeeded

CRS-2672: Attempting to start 'ora.ol5-112-rac1.vip' on 'ol5-112-rac2'

CRS-2676: Start of 'ora.ol5-112-rac1.vip' on 'ol5-112-rac2' succeeded

CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.DATA.dg' on 'ol5-112-rac1' succeeded

CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.asm' on 'ol5-112-rac1'

CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.asm' on 'ol5-112-rac1' succeeded

CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.ons' on 'ol5-112-rac1'

CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.eons' on 'ol5-112-rac1'

CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.ons' on 'ol5-112-rac1' succeeded

CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.net1.network' on 'ol5-112-rac1'

CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.net1.network' on 'ol5-112-rac1' succeeded

CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.eons' on 'ol5-112-rac1' succeeded

CRS-2792: Shutdown of Cluster Ready Services-managed resources on 'ol5-112-rac1' has completed

CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.crsd' on 'ol5-112-rac1' succeeded

CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.cssdmonitor' on 'ol5-112-rac1'

CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.ctssd' on 'ol5-112-rac1'

CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.evmd' on 'ol5-112-rac1'

CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.asm' on 'ol5-112-rac1'

CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.cssdmonitor' on 'ol5-112-rac1' succeeded

CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.evmd' on 'ol5-112-rac1' succeeded

CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.ctssd' on 'ol5-112-rac1' succeeded

CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.asm' on 'ol5-112-rac1' succeeded

CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.cssd' on 'ol5-112-rac1'

CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.cssd' on 'ol5-112-rac1' succeeded

CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.diskmon' on 'ol5-112-rac1'

CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.diskmon' on 'ol5-112-rac1' succeeded

[root@ol5-112-rac1 bin]# ps -ef|grep pmon

root      7072  5722  0 14:45 pts/2    00:00:00 grep pmon

[root@ol5-112-rac1 bin]# ps -ef|grep +ASM1

root      7074  5722  0 14:46 pts/2    00:00:00 grep +ASM1

[root@ol5-112-rac1 bin]#

At this point ASM & Cluster Ready Services managed resources are down.

In order to start them again just need to issue:

[root@ol5-112-rac1 bin]# ./crsctl start cluster

[root@ol5-112-rac1 bin]# exit

[oracle@ol5-112-rac1 ~]$ srvctl start instance –d RAC –I RAC1

Thanks,

Alfredo