So now do the following: Oracle$ ocrdump MYOCRDUMP This will produce a formatted dump called MYOCRDUMP of all the

OCR file contents in the current directory which may them be explored using any convenient editing tool. The Dumpfile has 3 main parts: 1. SYSTEM Desribes attributes of the clusterware such as interfaces, cluster name, cluster parameters such as misscount, locations of voting disks, location of OCR backups, cluster node names and numbers, hostnames and much more. This metadata is used by the clusterware processes CRSD, CSSD and EVMD. 2. DATABASE Contains metadata for all the resources managed by the clusterware. This is the information that is formatted for output by the crs_stat utility and by srvctl and lists databases, ASM, instances, services, nodeapps, atc.. 3. CRS Contains metadata for any Non-RAC resources that are managed for high availability by the clusterware. These resources will have been created by the crs_profile utility, and then registered in the OCR using the crs_register utility. Once all related resources have been registered then they will have been activated using the crs_start utility. If no such resources are managed by the clusterware then the CRS section will be virtually empty with a single entry for Security. When I began using Oracle clusterware for 10g, I used the ocrdump utility primarily as a learning tool to improve my understanding of the Clusterware architecture and encourage all DBAs using or learning RAC to do the same. I now use it as a teaching tool in the DBA Classroom. Note that an OCR DUMP file is quite large but an example may be found at this link: