Be careful while remove the /var/tmp/.oracle directory .. RAC hidden socket information

 Be careful while remove the /var/tmp/.oracle directory .. RAC hidden socket information

    Sometimes oracle suggests you remove files from the .oracle directory. Be careful while removing the contents from this hidden directory. We had landed one scenario where one of the colleagues removed the .oracle directory. Good thing is that it was in test instance.

Impact - Clusterware services are not coming up

Solution:

Stop all the clusterware services from all the nodes.

Create the directory  and give the permission. 

cd /var/tmp
mkdir .oracle
chmod 01777 .oracle

After above action plan services came up fine.

Thanks,
SM