addNode.sh, failed root.sh and IB listener

So this customer has an Exadata quarter rack and they have an IB listener configured on both DB nodes (for DB connections from a multi-racked Exalogic system). We were adding a new DB node to this rack. So just followed the standard procedure of creating users, directories etc on the new node, setting up ssh equivalence and running addNode.sh. All went fine but root.sh failed. Little looking into the logs revealed that it failed while running srvctl start listener –n <node_name> ...

September 13, 2016 at 7:44 PM · 2 min · 360 words · Amardeep Sidhu