ASM_DISKSTRING

Property	Description
Parameter type	String
Syntax	ASM_DISKSTRING = discovery_string [, discovery_string ] ...
Default value	The null string; Automatic Storage Management discovery finds all disks in an operating system-specific location to which the Automatic Storage Management instance has read/write access.
Modifiable	ALTER SYSTEM
Real Application Clusters	Multiple instances can have different values. Different nodes might see the same disks under different names; however, each instance must be able to use its ASM_DISKSTRING to discover the same physical media as the other nodes in the cluster.

Note:

1. This parameter may only be specified in an Automatic Storage Management instance.

ASM_DISKSTRING specifies an operating system-dependent value used by Automatic Storage Management to limit the set of disks considered for discovery. When a new disk is added to a disk group, each Automatic Storage Management instance that has the disk group mounted must be able to discover the new disk using the value of ASM_DISKSTRING.

In most cases, the default value will be sufficient. Using a more restrictive value may reduce the time required for Automatic Storage Management to perform discovery, and thus improve disk group mount time or the time for adding a disk to a disk group. A "?" at the beginning of the string gets expanded to the Oracle home directory. Depending on the operating system, wildcard characters can be used. It may be necessary to dynamically change ASM_DISKSTRING before adding a disk so that the new disk will be discovered.

An attempt to dynamically modify ASM_DISKSTRING will be rejected and the old value retained if the new value cannot be used to discover a disk that is in a disk group that is already mounted.

2. This parameter was introduced in 10g.

3. Query for the current value of the parameter

select name, value, isdefault, isses_modifiable, issys_modifiable,

isinstance_modifiable, isdeprecated, description

from v$parameter where upper(name) = 'ASM_DISKSTRING';

NAME	VALUE	IS DEFAULT	ISSES_ MODIFIABLE	ISSYS_ MODIFIABLE	ISINSTANCE_ MODIFIABLE	IS DEPRECATED	DESCRIPTION
asm_diskstring		TRUE	FALSE	IMMEDIATE	TRUE	FALSE	disk set locations for discovery

Oracle initializatoin parameters