If you want to start or stop just one instance and you are connected to your local node, you should first ensure that your current environment includes the SID for the local instance. Note that any subsequent commands in your session, whether inside or outside a SQL*Plus session, are associated with that same SID.
Note:
This section assumes you are using an SPFILE.
To start or shutdown your local instance, initiate a SQL*Plus session and connect with the SYSDBA or SYSOPER privilege and then issue the required command. For example to start and mount an instance on your local node, run the following commands in your SQL*Plus session:
CONNECT / AS SYSDBA STARTUP MOUNT
Note:
If you use Oracle ASM disk groups, then use the SYSASM privilege instead of the SYSDBA privilege to connect to and administer the Oracle ASM instances.
Oracle recommends that you do not use SQL*Plus to manage Oracle ASM instances in an Oracle RAC environment. Oracle Clusterware automatically manages Oracle ASM instances, as required. If manual intervention is necessary, then use respective SRVCTL commands.
See Also:
Oracle Automatic Storage Management Administrator's Guide for more information
You can start multiple instances from a single SQL*Plus session on one node using Oracle Net Services. Connect to each instance in turn by using a Net Services connection string, typically an instance-specific alias from your tnsnames.ora file.
For example, you can use a SQL*Plus session on a local node to perform a transactional shutdown for two instances on remote nodes by connecting to each in turn using the instance's individual alias name. Assume the alias name for the first instance is db1 and that the alias for the second instance is db2. Connect to the first instance and shut it down as follows:
CONNECT /@db1 AS SYSDBA SHUTDOWN TRANSACTIONAL
Note:
To ensure that you connect to the correct instance, you must use an alias in the connect string that is associated with just one instance. If you use a connect string that uses a TNS alias that connects to a service or an Oracle Net address that lists multiple IP addresses, then you might not be connected to the specific instance you want to shut down.
Then connect to and shutdown the second instance by entering the following from your SQL*Plus session:
CONNECT /@db2 AS SYSDBA SHUTDOWN TRANSACTIONAL
It is not possible to start or stop multiple instances, simultaneously, with SQL*Plus, so you cannot start or stop all of the instances for a cluster database with a single SQL*Plus command. You may want to create a script that connects to each instance in turn and start it up and shut it down. However, you must maintain this script manually if you add or drop instances.
See Also:
SQL*Plus User's Guide and Reference for information about other startup and shutdown keywords, such as NOMOUNT, MOUNT, IMMEDIATE, and so on