When starting up your ASM instance, you receive the following error:
SQL> startup pfile=?/dbs/init+ASM.ora ASM instance started
Total System Global Area 104611840 bytes
Fixed Size 1298220 bytes
Variable Size 78147796 bytes
ASM Cache 25165824 bytes
ORA-15032: not all alterations performed
ORA-15063: ASM discovered an insufficient number of disks for disk group "DGROUP3"
ORA-15063: ASM discovered an insufficient number of disks for disk group "DGROUP2"
ORA-15063: ASM discovered an insufficient number of disks for disk group "DGROUP1"
In trying to determine the cause of the problem, you issue this query:
SQL> show parameter asm
NAME TYPE VALUE
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asm_allow_only_raw_disks boolean FALSE
asm_diskgroups string DGROUP1, DGROUP2, DGROUP3
asm_diskstring string
asm_power_limit integer 1
asm_preferred_read_failure_groups string
What is the cause of the error?
A.
The ASM_DISKGROUPS parameter is configured for three disk groups: DGROUP1, DGROUP2, and DGROUP3. The underlying disks for these disk groups have apparently been lost.
B.
The format of the ASM_DISKGROUPS parameter is incorrect. It should reference the disk group numbers, not the names of the disk groups
C.
The ASM_POWER_LIMIT parameter is incorrectly set to 1. It should be set to the number of disk groups being attached to the ASM instance.
D.
The ASM_DISKSTRING parameter is not set; therefore disk discovery is not possible.
E.
There is insufficient information to solve this problem.
D is wrong answer. From documentation:
“The default value of the ASM_DISKSTRING parameter is a NULL string. A NULL value causes Oracle ASM to search a default path for all disks in the system to which the Oracle ASM instance has read and write access. ”
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e18951/asminst.htm#BHCEHJGA
and
How A Disk is Discovered
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/server.112/e18951/asmdiskgrps.htm#CHDHDDBE
Considering above comment the answer should be A.
or E. Because would be worth to check more things: like privileges, read/write etc.