Running Systems

I came across a Linux host (RHEL6.2) which I was not the one managing before, which required adding a node in Oracle 11.2 Grid Infrastructure. According the common documentations, as can be seen here, after cloning the host (or installing it correctly, according to Oracle requirements), you should run ‘cluvfy’ on the existing cluster node.

This has failed miserably – the error result was “PRVF-7610: cannot verify user equivalence/reachability on existing cluster nodes with equivalence configured”. No additional logs were present, and no indication of the problem existed, and equivalence was working correctly, when tested using manual SSH commands in all and any direction.

I have found a hint in this post, where I could control the debugging level of the cluvfy command through the following three env variables:
export CV_TRACELOC=/tmp/cvutrace
export SRVM_TRACE=true
export SRVM_TRACE_LEVEL=2

Following these variables, I have learned how cluvfy works – it checks connectivity (ping and then SSH), followed by copying a set of files to /tmp/CVU_<version>_<GI user> and then executes them.

In this particular case, /tmp was mounted with noexec flag, which resulting in a complete failure, and lack of any logs. So – take heed.