Startup and shutdown of Oracle ASM

# cat /etc/group asmadmin:!:6000:oracle $ echo $ORACLE_HOME /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/grid $ echo $ORACLE_SID +ASM Starting an ASM instance(as user oracle): $ sqlplus /nolog SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.1.0 Production on Mon Mar 21 22:42:18 2011 Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle.  All rights reserved. SQL> startup; ORA-01031: insufficient privileges SQL> connect sys as sysasm Enter password: Connected to an idle instance. SQL> startup; ASM instance started Total System Global Area  283930624 bytes Fixed Size                  2206088 bytes Variable Size             256558712 bytes ASM Cache                  25165824 bytes ASM diskgroups mounted SQL> isvp18> ps -ef | grep -i asm   oracle  7274562        1   0 22:44:17      -  0:00 asm_rbal_+ASM   oracle  8126534        1   0 22:44:17      -  0:00 asm_mmnl_+ASM   oracle  8913064        1   0 22:44:17      -  0:00 asm_smon_+ASM   oracle  8978618        1   0 22:44:17      -  0:00 asm_ckpt_+ASM   oracle  9765052        1   0 22:44:16      -  0:00 asm_diag_+ASM     root  9830508 13172966   0 22:49:51  pts/2  0:00 grep -i -i asm   oracle 10027226        1   0 22:44:16      -  0:00 asm_gen0_+ASM   oracle 10289252        1   0 22:44:17      -  0:00 asm_mmon_+ASM   oracle 10748040 16253002   0 22:43:47      -  0:00 oracle+ASM (DESCRIPTION=(LOCAL=YES)(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=beq)))   oracle 10813538        1   0 22:44:17      -  0:00 asm_mman_+ASM   oracle 10879092        1   0 22:44:16      -  0:00 asm_pmon_+ASM   oracle 11010134        1   0 22:44:17      -  0:00 asm_dbw0_+ASM   oracle 11075668        1   0 22:44:17      -  0:00 asm_dia0_+ASM   oracle 13304010 16253002   0 22:44:24      -  0:00 oracle+ASM (DESCRIPTION=(LOCAL=YES)(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=beq)))   oracle 13828280        1   0 22:44:16      -  0:00 asm_psp0_+ASM   oracle 14483708        1   0 22:44:17      -  0:00 asm_gmon_+ASM   oracle 14549092        1   0 22:44:16      -  0:00 asm_vktm_+ASM   oracle 24444936        1   0 22:44:17      -  0:00 asm_lgwr_+ASM isvp18> Shutdown of ASM instance(as user oracle): $ sqlplus /nolog SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.1.0 Production on Mon Mar 21 22:37:34 2011 Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle.  All rights reserved. SQL> connect sys as sysasm Enter password: Connected. SQL> shutdown; ASM diskgroups dismounted ASM instance shutdown SQL>