SRVCTL is used to manage the following resources (components):
Component Abbreviation Description
asm asm Oracle ASM instance
database db Database instance
diskgroup dg Oracle ASM disk group
filesystem filesystem Oracle ASM file system
home home Oracle home or Oracle Clusterware home
listener lsnr Oracle Net listener
service serv Database service
ons, eons ons, eons Oracle Notification Services (ONS)
Oracle entities (such as resources, resource types, and server pools) that have names beginning with ora are managed only by SRVCTL (and not by CRSCTL) unless you are directed to do so by Oracle Support. The cluster specific commands are generally managed by CRSCTL.
Syntax:
srvctl command object options
The available commands used with SRVCTL are:
Command Description
add Adds a component to the Oracle Restart configuration.
config Displays the Oracle Restart configuration for a component.
disable Disables management by Oracle Restart for a component.
enable Reenables management by Oracle Restart for a component.
getenv Displays environment variables in the Oracle Restart configuration for a database, Oracle ASM instance, or listener.
modify Modifies the Oracle Restart configuration for a component.
remove Removes a component from the Oracle Restart configuration.
setenv Sets environment variables in the Oracle Restart configuration for a database, Oracle ASM instance, or listener.
start Starts the specified component.
status Displays the running status of the specified component.
stop Stops the specified component.
unsetenv Unsets environment variables in the Oracle Restart configuration for a database, Oracle ASM instance, or listener.
For more information go to the Oracle DBA Guide
Here are a matrix of commands/ object combination:
The most SRVCTL commands are:
srvctl start database -d DBname
srvctl stop database -d DBname
If you don't know the DBname you might run select name from v$database;
srvctl start instance -d DBname -i INSTANCEname
srvctl stop instance -d DBname -i INSTANCEname
srvctl start instance -d DBname -i INSTANCEname
srvctl stop instance -d DBname -i INSTANCEname
srvctl status database -d DBname
srvctl status instance -d DBname -i INSTANCEname
srvctl status nodeapps -n NODEname
srvctl enable database -d DBname
srvctl disable database -d DBname
srvctl enable instance -d DBname -i INSTANCEname
srvctl disable instance -d DBname -i INSTANCEname
srvctl config database -d DBname -> to get some information about the database from OCR.
srvctl getenv nodeaps