Asm Health Checker Found 1 New Failures Updated -

The ASM Health Checker is an automated diagnostic feature introduced to monitor the integrity and consistency of ASM disk groups, which are the fundamental storage units in ASM. When the Health Checker detects an anomaly in a disk group—such as metadata corruption, a disk block inconsistency, or a missing file—it logs a message in the ASM alert log. The specific alert "ASM Health Checker found 1 new failures updated" indicates that the health checker has detected one new issue during its latest automatic scan that wasn't present previously.

Automatic Storage Management (ASM) is Oracle’s volume manager and file system, built specifically for database files. It manages disk groups, handles storage redundancy (Normal, High, or External), and balances I/O. However, even with robust redundancy, disk corruption or metadata corruption can occasionally occur. asm health checker found 1 new failures updated

Look for entries with timestamps matching the health checker alert. You will often see additional details like: The ASM Health Checker is an automated diagnostic

Drop the damaged disk from the ASM diskgroup to allow ASM to rebalance data to surviving disks. Command: ALTER DISKGROUP DROP DISK ; 4. Preventing Future Failures To minimize "1 New Failure" alerts: Monitor Disk IO: Regularly query v$asm_disk_iostat . Look for entries with timestamps matching the health