ASM_DISKSTRING

Property	Description
Parameter type	String
Syntax	`ASM_DISKSTRING =` `discovery_string` `[,` `discovery_string` `] ...`
Default value	The null string; Oracle Automatic Storage Management discovery finds all disks in an operating system-specific location to which the Oracle Automatic Storage Management instance has read/write access.
Modifiable	`ALTER SESSION, ALTER SYSTEM`
Oracle RAC	Multiple instances can have different values. Different nodes might see the same disks under different names; however, each instance must be able to use its `ASM_DISKSTRING` to discover the same physical media as the other nodes in the cluster.

Note:

This parameter may only be specified in an Oracle Automatic Storage Management (Oracle ASM) instance.

ASM_DISKSTRING specifies an operating system-dependent value used by Oracle ASM to limit the set of disks considered for discovery. When a new disk is added to a disk group, each Oracle ASM instance that has the disk group mounted must be able to discover the new disk using the value of ASM_DISKSTRING.

In most cases, the default value will be sufficient. Using a more restrictive value may reduce the time required for Oracle ASM to perform discovery, and thus improve disk group mount time or the time for adding a disk to a disk group. A "?" at the beginning of the string gets expanded to the Oracle home directory. Depending on the operating system, wildcard characters can be used. It may be necessary to dynamically change ASM_DISKSTRING before adding a disk so that the new disk will be discovered.

An attempt to dynamically modify ASM_DISKSTRING will be rejected and the old value retained if the new value cannot be used to discover a disk that is in a disk group that is already mounted.