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ASMCMD is a command line utility for managing files and directories in ASM
(Automatic Storage Management ) diskgroups. It offers Unix-style filesystem
commands for managing ASM directories and files. Prior to Oracle 10gR2, ASM
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Note that ASMCMD cannot be used to create or drop diskgroups, or to add or drop
disks in a disk group. These ASM administrative tasks must be accomplished via
SQL commands.
Remote DBA ASMCMD offers two modes of operation: interactive and non-interactive.
Oracle Tuning Interactive mode provides a shell-like environment for executing ASMCMD
Emergency 911 commands. It resembles how SQL*Plus interactive mode works and looks like this:
RAC Support
Apps Support C:\Temp>asmcmd
Analysis
ASMCMD>
Design
Whereas non-interactive mode works much like the srvctl and lsnsctl XE "lsnsctl"
Implementation
commands, that is that one provides the base ASMCMD command, its command
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and any command parameters and all on the operating system command line, like
this:

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C:\Temp>asmcmd ls -1
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The ASMCMD commands and their parameters are very Unix-like in nature, so
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they will look quite familiar to those on UNIX.
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Remote plans COMMAND DESCRIPTION
Remote services cd Change directory
Application Server cp Copy file
Applications du Disk space used by a directory and its subdirectories
Oracle Forms exit Exit the utility
Oracle Portal find Locate the path for all occurrences of the specified filename
App Upgrades help Displays command assistance
SQL Server ls List the contents of a directory
Oracle Concepts lsct List info about ASM clients
Software Support lsdg List all disk groups and their attributes
Remote Support lsdsk List all physical disks visible to ASM
Development md_backup Create a backup of the mounted diskgroups
Implementation md_restore Restore the diskgroups from a backup
mkalias Create an alias for a system generated filename
mkdir Create directory
pwd Print working directory (i.e. list current directory location)
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Consulting Prices remap Repair a range of blocks on a disk
Help Wanted! rm Remove (i.e. delete) the specified files or directories
rmalias Remove (i.e. delete) the specified alias

Table 6.173: ASMCMD Key Commands

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Ion When making the decision to bypass the JFS buffers with raw devices, the problem
Excel-DB has always been the management of the "raw" disk files, which are read directly by
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Don Burleson Blog ASM, I recommend the book "Oracle RAC and Grid" by Madhu Tumma and Mile
Ault.

Oracle introduced Automatic Storage Management (ASM) to simplify Oracle data

management, enforce the SAME (Stripe And Mirror Everywhere, RAID10), and
provide a platform for file sharing in RAC and Grid computing.

Managing raw datafiles with asmcmd

The 10g release 2 has introduced an ASM command line utility dibbed "asmcmd"
to act as a DMCL (device media control language), to manage the interface between
the ASM logical data view and the physical disk files.

The asmcmd interface is launched by first setting the environment for +ASM, then
calling it with the asmcmd command. The idea of this tool is to make administering
the ASM files similar to administering standard operating system files.

Invoking asmcmd
The asmcmd utility is located in $ORACLE_HOME/bin/asmcmd and it should
already be pathed into your UNIX/Linux environment. We start asmcmd by setting
$ORACLE_SID to the ASM instance with +ASM, and we can them execute
asmcmd. You can use the "?" or "help" command to display all asmcmd
commands:
root> export ORACLE_SID=+ASM
root> asmcmd
ASMCMD> help

You can run the list data groups (lsdg) ASM command from a bash shell script to
quickly see the disk space usage:
#!/bin/bash
. /home/oracle/set_oraenv
sid="+ASM1"
echo "Check Space on "$sid
export ORACLE_SID=$sid
asmcmd << EOF
lsdg
EOF

This is an example of an asmcmd session:

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Trying out the asmcmd utility.

asmcmd command examples

The asmcmd command line interface is very similar to standard UNIX/Linux
commands, but it only manages files at the OS level.

The asmcmd utility supports all common Linux commands:

ASMCMD> ls -alt -- list directory contents

ASMCMD> cd -- change directory

ASMCMD> mkdir -- create (make)directory

ASMCMD> du -- display directory space

ASMCMD> find -- standard UNIX find command

ASMCMD> rm -- remove file/directory

ASMCMD> lsdg -- list diskgroups

ASMCMD> pwd -- display current directory

Plus, we see some Oracle-only asmcmd commands:

ASMCMD> lsct -- list all connected Oracle instances

For a list of common Linux commands for Oracle, see the Oracle Linux command
poster or Jon Emmon's book "Oracle Shell Scripting".

Using asmcmd with ASM commands

For internal operations against the ASM database you need other commands such as
"alter diskgroup".

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Deleting an orphaned file from the ASM instance.

You can also use asmcmd to delete files using the standard rm command:

Deleting an orphaned file using asmcmd.

Set asmcmd prompt display

You can invoke asmcmd with the -p option to display the current path, very similar
to the UNIX/Linux.
PS1="
`hostname`*\${ORACLE_SID}-\${PWD}
>"
export PS1

fred:/u01/app/oracle/admin>

asmcmd command line history

The asmcmd utility does not provide a command history with the up-arrow key.
With rlwrapinstalled, this can be fixed by adding the following entry to the
~oracle/.bashrc file:
alias asmcmd='rlwrap asmcmd'

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