ASM instance not shown in tnsnames.ora

Hi,
Currently I have an Oracle 11g database on linux with ASM installed, or at least that's what I can tell from querying v$logfile and v$datafile views. But in my tnsnames.ora and listner.ora I only see the db instance with no ASM instance. If I goto $ORACLE_BASE/admin, I see ASM and orcl. But under $ORACLE_BASE/admin/+ASM/pfile, I see no files.
This is a vm image by the way. The database is running fine as far as i can tell. My question is why there is no ASM entries in the above files?
Thanks for the help.

ASM instance is not used by applications users. It is used by Oracle which can see it, so you do not need any entry in tnsnames.ora for ASM instance. Also ASM instance usage init.ora file from $ORACLE_HOME/dbs directory, so you do not see any file in admin/pfile directory.
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SQL>
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