Oracle Database ODM Errors

So, a colleague and I were configuring a database to use Oracle Disk Manager (ODM) where it hadn’t been used previously. We had previously upgraded Veritas Storage Foundation High Availability to version 6.0.3. When starting up the database, we encountered the following error message:

ORA-17612: Failed to discover Oracle Disk Manager library, 
           return value 3" while starting up.

After a bit of fooling around, checking licenses, poking around in logs, making sure all of the relevant symlinks were in place and all that jazz, I spotted the following:

root@server# /etc/init.d/vxodm status
vxodm is stopped

Sigh. Easy fixed with a quick service vxodm start.

Make sure chkconfig is okay, too.