Why my new Disk Group is not getting mounted automatically when ASM instance starts?

Today I faced the issue that a new ASM Disk Group created in instance +ASM1 is not getting automatically mounted in instance +ASM2.

The first step was to check DB dependencies:

[oracle@ol5-112-rac2 trace]$ srvctl config database -d RAC
Database unique name: RAC
Database name: RAC
Oracle home: /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1
Oracle user: oracle
Spfile: +DATA/RAC/spfileRAC.ora
Domain: localdomain
Start options: open
Stop options: immediate
Database role: PRIMARY
Management policy: AUTOMATIC
Server pools: RAC
Database instances: RAC1,RAC2
Disk Groups: DATA
Services: reports
Database is administrator managed
You can see that only dependent Disk Groups are ‘DATA’.

Let us add ‘FRA’ also as dependent Disk Group:

[oracle@ol5-112-rac2 trace]$ srvctl modify database -d RAC -a ‘DATA,FRA’
[oracle@ol5-112-rac2 trace]$ srvctl config database -d RAC
Database unique name: RAC
Database name: RAC
Oracle home: /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1
Oracle user: oracle
Spfile: +DATA/RAC/spfileRAC.ora
Domain: localdomain
Start options: open
Stop options: immediate
Database role: PRIMARY
Management policy: AUTOMATIC
Server pools: RAC
Database instances: RAC1,RAC2
Disk Groups: DATA,FRA
Services: reports
Database is administrator managed
The next step is to add the Disk Groups to ASM_DISKGROUPS parameter:

SQL> ALTER SYSTEM SET ASM_DISKGROUPS=’DATA’,’FRA’ scope=both sid=’+ASM1′;
System altered.
SQL> ALTER SYSTEM SET ASM_DISKGROUPS=’DATA’,’FRA’ scope=both sid=’+ASM2′;
System altered.
After restarting +ASM2 instance we can see that FRA Disk Group is mounted automatically:

[oracle@ol5-112-rac2 trace]$ sqlplus / as sysasm
SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.1.0 Production on Wed Jun 12 15:44:44 2013
Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle.  All rights reserved.
Connected to:
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.1.0 – Production
With the Real Application Clusters and Automatic Storage Management options
SQL> set lines 1000
SQL> select * from V$ASM_DISKGROUP;
GROUP_NUMBER NAME                           SECTOR_SIZE BLOCK_SIZE ALLOCATION_UNIT_SIZE STATE       TYPE     TOTAL_MB    FREE_MB HOT_USED_MB COLD_USED_MB REQUIRED_MIRROR_FREE_MB USABLE_FILE_MB OFFLINE_DISKS COMPATIBILITY                                                DATABASE_COMPATIBILITY                                       V
———— —————————— ———– ———- ——————– ———– —— ———- ———- ———– ———— ———————– ————– ————- ———————————————————— ———————————————————— –
           1 DATA                                   512       4096              1048576 MOUNTED     EXTERN      15342      12616           0         2726                       0          12616     0 11.2.0.0.0                                                   10.1.0.0.0                                                   N
           2 FRA                                    512       4096              1048576 MOUNTED     EXTERN       6133       5962           0          171                       0           5962     0 11.2.0.0.0                                                   10.1.0.0.0                                                   N
SQL> exit
Disconnected from Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.1.0 – Production
With the Real Application Clusters and Automatic Storage Management options
Thanks,

Alfredo