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The log format for Oracle ASMLib, used to manage Oracle ASM
devices dedicated to Oracle Databases, is updated to include
timestamps of the activities logged to
/var/log/oracleasm.
The oracleasm command line utility is
improved for the scandisks operation to scan
devices that are not directly available under
/dev, but may be available within
subdirectories within /dev. Additional
directories to be scanned during the
scandisks operation can be configured by
setting the Directories to scan option when
using the interactive configuration tool. For example:
#oracleasm configure -IConfiguring the Oracle ASM library driver. ... The next two configuration options take substrings to match device names. The substring "sd" (without the quotes), for example, matches "sda", "sdb", etc. You may enter more than one substring pattern, separated by spaces. The special string "none" (again, without the quotes) will clear the value. . Device order to scan for ASM disks []: Devices to exclude from scanning []:dmDirectories to scan []:/dev/mapper/Use device logical block size for ASM (y/n) [n]: Writing Oracle ASM library driver configuration: done