dsset

Purpose

Sets the discovery diskstring value that is used by the Oracle ASM instance and its clients.

The specified diskstring must be valid for existing mounted disk groups. The updated value takes effect immediately.

Syntax and Description

dsset [ --normal | --parameter | --profile [-f] ] diskstring

The syntax options for the dsset command are described in Table 10-6.

Table 10-6 Options for the dsset command

Option	Description
`--normal`	Sets the discovery string in the Grid Plug and Play (GPnP) profile and in the Oracle ASM instance. The update occurs after the Oracle ASM instance has successfully validated that the specified discovery string has discovered all the necessary disk groups and voting files. This command fails if the instance is not using a server parameter file (SPFILE). This is the default setting.
`--parameter`	Specifies that the diskstring is updated in memory after validating that the discovery diskstring discovers all the current mounted disk groups and voting files. The diskstring is not persistently recorded in either the SPFILE or the GPnP profile.
`--profile` [`-f`]	Specifies the discovery diskstring that is pushed to the GPnP profile without any validation by the Oracle ASM instance, ensuring that the instance can discover all the required disk groups. The update is guaranteed to be propagated to all the nodes that are part of the cluster. If `-f` is specified with `--profile`, the specified diskstring is pushed to the local GPnP profile without any synchronization with other nodes in the cluster. This command option updates only the local profile file. This option should only be used for recovery. The command fails if the Oracle Clusterware stack is running.
`diskstring`	Specifies the value for the discovery diskstring.

For information about disk discovery and the discovery diskstring, see "Oracle ASM Disk Discovery ".

Example

The following example uses dsset to set the current value of the discovery diskstring in the GPnP profile.

Example 10-7 Using the ASMCMD dsset command

ASMCMD [+] > dsset /devices1/disk*,/devices2/disk*