Oracle afd service failed to start during boot due to missing FCoE ASM devices

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • The Oracle afd service seems to be starting before the FCoE ASM storage devices are available.
  • Oracle afd service is in failed status after reboot.
● afd.service - LSB: Start and Stop ASM Filter driver
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/rc.d/init.d/afd; bad; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (exited) since Thu 2020-04-30 16:48:31 CDT; 1h 20min ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
  Process: 6074 ExecStart=/etc/rc.d/init.d/afd start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
    Tasks: 0
   Memory: 0B

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Oracle ASM Filter Driver

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