onsctl commands in Oracle RAC

ONSCTL commands in 12c / 11g Oracle RAC

To manage ONS (Oracle Notification Service)

ONS - A publish and subscribe service for communicating information about all FAN events.

In Oracle RAC 11g Release 1,
onsctl or onsctl help or onsctl -h

onsctl start        -- to start ONS

onsctl stop         -- to stop ONS

onsctl ping         -- to find out the status of ONS

onsctl debug       -- to display debug information for the ons daemon

onsctl reconfig    -- to reload the ons configuration

onsctl detailed    -- to print a verbose syntax description


from Oracle 11g release 2
onsctl command [options]

onsctl or onsctl help or onsctl -h

onsctl start           -- to start ONS

onsctl shutdown    -- to shutdown ONS

onsctl ping [max-retry]        -- to ping local ons

onsctl debug [attr=val ...]    -- to display ons server debug information

onsctl reload          -- to trigger ons to reread its configuration file

onsctl set [attr=val ...]      -- to set ons log parameters

onsctl query [attr=val]      -- to query ons log parameters

onsctl usage [command]   -- to print detailed usage description


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