ORA-29701: unable to connect to Cluster Manager

Needs an ASM Bounce for this Issue as resolution with a small change as below

[asm@dev123~]$ sqlplus "/as sysdba"

SQL*Plus: Release 11.1.0.7.0 - Production on Thu Jan 6 01:23:24 2011

Copyright (c) 1982, 2008, Oracle.  All rights reserved.

Connected to an idle instance.

SQL> startup

ORA-29701: unable to connect to Cluster Manager

SQL> exit

Resolution:

As root User,

[user1@dev123~]$ sudo su -

[root@dev123 ~]# cd /u06/app/oracle/product/11.1.0/asm/bin ßASM Home

[root@dev123 bin]# ./localconfig delete

Stopping Cluster Synchronization Services.

Unable to communicate with the Cluster Synchronization Services daemon.

Shutdown has begun. The daemons should exit soon.

Cleaning up Network socket directories

[root@ddev123 bin]#

[root@dev123 bin]# ./localconfig add

Successfully accumulated necessary OCR keys.

Creating OCR keys for user 'root', privgrp 'root'..

Operation successful.

Configuration for local CSS has been initialized

Cleaning up Network socket directories

Setting up Network socket directories

Adding to inittab

Startup will be queued to init within 30 seconds.

Checking the status of new Oracle init process...

Expecting the CRS daemons to be up within 600 seconds.

Cluster Synchronization Services is active on these nodes.

        dev123

Cluster Synchronization Services is active on all the nodes.

Oracle CSS service is installed and running under init(1M)

[root@dev123 bin]#

[root@dev123 bin]# ps -ef|grep css

root     16699     1  0 01:27 ?        00:00:00 /bin/sh /etc/init.d/init.cssd run

root     16974 16699  0 01:27 ?        00:00:00 /bin/sh /etc/init.d/init.cssd daemon

asm      17164 16974  0 01:27 ?        00:00:00 /u06/app/oracle/product/11.1.0/asm/bin/ocssd.bin

root     17170 16699  0 01:27 ?        00:00:00 /bin/sh /etc/init.d/init.cssd diskmon

root     17475 15609  0 01:27 pts/5    00:00:00 grep css

[root@dev123 bin]#exit

As asm User,

[user1@dev123 ~]$ sudo su - asm

[asm@dev123~]$ sqlplus "/ as sysdba"

SQL*Plus: Release 11.1.0.7.0 - Production on Thu Jan 6 01:28:31 2011

Copyright (c) 1982, 2008, Oracle.  All rights reserved.

Connected to an idle instance.

SQL> startup

ASM instance started

Total System Global Area  175382528 bytes

Fixed Size                  2157904 bytes

Variable Size             148058800 bytes

ASM Cache                  25165824 bytes

ASM diskgroups mounted

SQL> exit