InfoScale™ 9.0 Cluster Server Implementation Guide for Oracle - Windows

To verify the initialization file settings, if a PFILE is used

1. Open the Registry Editor.

   Press Window+R on the desktop to open the Run dialog box. In the Open field, type regedit and click OK.

2. Navigate to the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE\HOME_ID\ and double-click the ORA_SID_PFILE registry key.

   The variable SID represents the database instance.

3. Verify that the Value data field specifies the fully qualified path of the PFILE along with the file name.

To verify the initialization file settings, if an SPFILE is used

1. Stop and restart the database services.
2. Run sqlplus.exe.
3. Connect to the database.
4. Verify the following query returns the correct shared virtual disk path for the SPFILE.

   select value from v$parameter where name = 'spfile';