How To Start, Stop and Restart Oracle Listener
1. Display Oracle Listener Status
Before starting, stopping or restarting make sure to execute lsnrctl status command to check the oracle listener status as shown below. Apart from letting us know whether the listener is up or down, you can also find the following valuable information from the lsnrctl status command output.
- Listner Start Date and Time.
- Uptime of listner – How long the listener has been up and running.
- Listener Parameter File – Location of the listener.ora file. Typically located under $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin
- Listener Log File – Location of the listener log file. i.e log.xml
If the Oracle listener is not running, you’ll get the following message.
$ lsnrctl status
LSNRCTL for Linux: Version 11.1.0.6.0 - Production on 04-APR-2009 16:27:39
Copyright (c) 1991, 2007, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connecting to (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=192.168.1.2)(PORT=1521)))
TNS-12541: TNS:no listener
TNS-12560: TNS:protocol adapter error
TNS-00511: No listener
Linux Error: 111: Connection refused
Connecting to (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=IPC)(KEY=EXTPROC)))
TNS-12541: TNS:no listener
TNS-12560: TNS:protocol adapter error
TNS-00511: No listener
Linux Error: 2: No such file or directory
If the Oracle listener is running, you’ll get the following message.
$ lsnrctl status
LSNRCTL for Linux: Version 11.1.0.6.0 - Production on 04-APR-2009 16:27:02
Copyright (c) 1991, 2007, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connecting to (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=192.168.1.2)(PORT=1521)))
STATUS of the LISTENER
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Alias LISTENER
Version TNSLSNR for Linux: Version 11.1.0.6.0 - Production
Start Date 29-APR-2009 18:43:13
Uptime 6 days 21 hr. 43 min. 49 sec
Trace Level off
Security ON: Local OS Authentication
SNMP OFF
Listener Parameter File /u01/app/oracle/product/11.1.0/network/admin/listener.ora
Listener Log File /u01/app/oracle/diag/tnslsnr/devdb/listener/alert/log.xml
Listening Endpoints Summary...
(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=192.168.1.2)(PORT=1521)))
(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=ipc)(KEY=EXTPROC)))
Services Summary...
Service "devdb" has 1 instance(s).
Instance "devdb", status UNKNOWN, has 1 handler(s) for this service...
Service "devdb.thegeekstuff.com" has 1 instance(s).
Instance "devdb", status READY, has 1 handler(s) for this service...
Service "devdbXDB.thegeekstuff.com" has 1 instance(s).
Instance "devdb", status READY, has 1 handler(s) for this service...
Service "devdb_XPT.thegeekstuff.com" has 1 instance(s).
Instance "devdb", status READY, has 1 handler(s) for this service...
The command completed successfully
2. Start Oracle Listener
If the Oracle listener is not running, start the listener as shown below. This will start all the listeners. If you want to start a specific listener, specify the listener name next to start. i.e lsnrctl start [listener-name]
$ lsnrctl start
LSNRCTL for Linux: Version 11.1.0.6.0 - Production on 04-APR-2009 16:27:42
Copyright (c) 1991, 2007, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Starting /u01/app/oracle/product/11.1.0/bin/tnslsnr: please wait...
TNSLSNR for Linux: Version 11.1.0.6.0 - Production
System parameter file is /u01/app/oracle/product/11.1.0/network/admin/listener.ora
Log messages written to /u01/app/oracle/diag/tnslsnr/devdb/listener/alert/log.xml
Listening on: (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=192.168.1.2)(PORT=1521)))
Listening on: (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=ipc)(KEY=EXTPROC)))
Connecting to (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=192.168.1.2)(PORT=1521)))
STATUS of the LISTENER
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Alias LISTENER
Version TNSLSNR for Linux: Version 11.1.0.6.0 - Production
Start Date 04-APR-2009 16:27:42
Uptime 0 days 0 hr. 0 min. 0 sec
Trace Level off
Security ON: Local OS Authentication
SNMP OFF
Listener Parameter File /u01/app/oracle/product/11.1.0/network/admin/listener.ora
Listener Log File /u01/app/oracle/diag/tnslsnr/devdb/listener/alert/log.xml
Listening Endpoints Summary...
(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=192.168.1.2)(PORT=1521)))
(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=ipc)(KEY=EXTPROC)))
Services Summary...
Service "devdb" has 1 instance(s).
Instance "devdb", status UNKNOWN, has 1 handler(s) for this service...
The command completed successfully
3. Stop Oracle Listener
If the Oracle listener is running, stop the listener as shown below. This will stop all the listeners. If you want to stop a specific listener, specify the listener name next to stop. i.e lsnrctl stop [listener-name]
$ lsnrctl stop
LSNRCTL for Linux: Version 11.1.0.6.0 - Production on 04-APR-2009 16:27:37
Copyright (c) 1991, 2007, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connecting to (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=192.168.1.2)(PORT=1521)))
The command completed successfully
4. Restart Oracle Listener
To restart the listener use lsnrctl reload as shown below instead of lsnrctl stop and lsnrctl start. realod will read the listener.ora file for new setting without stop and start of the Oracle listener.
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1. Listener Down
2. Instance Down
3. ASM Down
4. CRS Down