Relocating CRS Resource

I have installed a one node RAC 10gR2 on RHEL5.5 for test purposes (my 10gR2 rac on RHEL5.5 vmware installation notes). After adding the second node to the cluster successfully, i realized that the new nodes vip resource is running on the first node. I have seen this problem before on a solaris system but i hadnt got any time to write about that.

[root@EPRHEL6]# crsctl check crs
CSS appears healthy
CRS appears healthy
EVM appears healthy

[root@EPRHEL6]# crs_stat -t
Name           Type           Target    State     Host        
------------------------------------------------------------
ora....L1.inst application    ONLINE    ONLINE    eprhel5     
ora.ORCL.db    application    ONLINE    ONLINE    eprhel5     
ora....SM1.asm application    ONLINE    ONLINE    eprhel5     
ora....L5.lsnr application    ONLINE    ONLINE    eprhel5     
ora....el5.gsd application    ONLINE    ONLINE    eprhel5     
ora....el5.ons application    ONLINE    ONLINE    eprhel5     
ora....el5.vip application    ONLINE    ONLINE    eprhel5     
ora....el6.gsd application    ONLINE    ONLINE    eprhel6     
ora....el6.ons application    ONLINE    ONLINE    eprhel6     
ora....el6.vip application    ONLINE    ONLINE    eprhel5     

[root@EPRHEL6]# ping eprhel6-vip
PING eprhel6-vip (172.28.4.226) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from eprhel6-vip (172.28.4.226): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=2.28 ms
64 bytes from eprhel6-vip (172.28.4.226): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=1.03 ms
64 bytes from eprhel6-vip (172.28.4.226): icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.131 ms

[root@EPRHEL6]# ifconfig -a
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:29:DE:D8:FD  
inet addr:172.28.4.246  Bcast:172.28.4.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fede:d8fd/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
RX packets:36798 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:13478 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
RX bytes:21057458 (20.0 MiB)  TX bytes:10660215 (10.1 MiB)

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:29:DE:D8:07  
BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

[root@EPRHEL5]# ifconfig eth0
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:29:B7:92:45  
inet addr:172.28.4.245  Bcast:172.28.4.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:feb7:9245/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
RX packets:9074707 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1212938 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
RX bytes:1173926429 (1.0 GiB)  TX bytes:1041963477 (993.6 MiB)

[root@EPRHEL5]# ifconfig eth0:1
eth0:1    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:29:B7:92:45  
inet addr:172.28.4.225  Bcast:172.28.4.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

[root@EPRHEL5]# ifconfig eth0:2
eth0:2    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:29:B7:92:45  
inet addr:172.28.4.226  Bcast:172.28.4.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

I suppose this is because of the network settings of the newly added node and somehow crs could not assign the vip ip address to the nic card. crs_relocate may work on this.

[root@EPRHEL5]# crs_relocate ora.eprhel6.vip
Attempting to stop `ora.eprhel6.vip` on member `eprhel5`
Stop of `ora.eprhel6.vip` on member `eprhel5` succeeded.
Attempting to start `ora.eprhel6.vip` on member `eprhel6`
Start of `ora.eprhel6.vip` on member `eprhel6` succeeded.
[root@EPRHEL5]# crs_stat -t
Name           Type           Target    State     Host        
------------------------------------------------------------
ora....L1.inst application    ONLINE    ONLINE    eprhel5     
ora.ORCL.db    application    ONLINE    ONLINE    eprhel5     
ora....SM1.asm application    ONLINE    ONLINE    eprhel5     
ora....L5.lsnr application    ONLINE    ONLINE    eprhel5     
ora....el5.gsd application    ONLINE    ONLINE    eprhel5     
ora....el5.ons application    ONLINE    ONLINE    eprhel5     
ora....el5.vip application    ONLINE    ONLINE    eprhel5     
ora....el6.gsd application    ONLINE    ONLINE    eprhel6     
ora....el6.ons application    ONLINE    ONLINE    eprhel6     
ora....el6.vip application    ONLINE    ONLINE    eprhel6  

Now ifconfig on my new node should show the vip ip address information.

[root@EPRHEL6 network-scripts]# ifconfig -a
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:29:DE:D8:FD  
inet addr:172.28.4.246  Bcast:172.28.4.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:29ff:fede:d8fd/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
RX packets:36798 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:13478 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
RX bytes:21057458 (20.0 MiB)  TX bytes:10660215 (10.1 MiB)

eth0:1    Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:29:DE:D8:FD  
inet addr:172.28.4.226  Bcast:172.28.4.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1