PRVF-4661 During cluvfy on AIX platform

In this Document
  Symptoms
  Cause
  Solution
  References

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APPLIES TO:

Oracle Server - Enterprise Edition - Version: 11.2.0.1 and later   [Release: 11.2 and later ]
IBM AIX on POWER Systems (64-bit)

SYMPTOMS

11.2 Grid Infrastructure installation, reporting cluster verification error:

installActions<date>.log

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INFO: Started Plugin named: Oracle Cluster Verification Utility
...
INFO: TCP connectivity to SCAN Listeners exists on all cluster nodes
INFO: Checking name resolution setup for "scan-rac"...
INFO: ERROR:
INFO: PRVF-4661 : Found inconsistent hosts entry in /etc/nsswitch.conf on node racnode31
INFO: ERROR:
INFO: PRVF-4661 : Found inconsistent hosts entry in /etc/nsswitch.conf on node racnode33
INFO: Verification of SCAN VIP and Listener setup failed

CAUSE

This is caused by misconfiguration in file /etc/netsvc.conf on AIX platform.

Due to Unpublised bug  9857270: CLUVFY CHECK /ETC/NSSWITCH.CONF ON AIX, cluvfy incorrectly report file name as /etc/nsswitch.conf, but this file does not exist on AIX platform. The file to be checked should be /etc/netsvc.conf.

In this case, there is a typo in file /etc/netsvc.conf on both nodes racnode31 and racnode33. It should be:

hosts=local, bind

SOLUTION

Correct the typo in /etc/netsvc.conf file, rerun cluvfy:

cluvfy stage -post crsinst -n racnode31,racnode32,racnode33 -verbose

cluvfy should no longer report error.