Oracle® Collaboration Suite Installation Guide 10g Release 1 (10.1.2) for AIX 5L Based Systems (64-Bit) Part Number B25471-10 |
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This appendix describes new features of Oracle Collaboration Suite installation. This appendix is most useful to users who have installed earlier releases of Oracle Collaboration Suite.
To see the list of new features of Oracle Collaboration Suite, visit the Oracle Technology Network site at
http://www.oracle.com/technology/index.html
The contents of this appendix are:
Section A.11, "Support for Generating Installation Statistics"
Section A.13, "Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Database Uses Oracle 10g Database"
Section A.14, "Support for Oracle Internet Directory Replication"
Earlier versions of Oracle Collaboration Suite required manual configuration of Applications tier components after installation.
In Oracle Collaboration Suite, the main installation takes care of all tasks that were previously identified as postinstallation tasks for each Applications tier component.
In earlier versions, the installation process dynamically assigned a free TCP port value based on a range of ports registered to each component. There might be times when you would not want to have the installation dynamically determine the port values and would rather be able to specify the ports to be used for the installation.
In Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g, you can specify custom port numbers for components, instead of having the installer assign default port numbers. This feature is called the static ports feature. To use static ports, you must set up a file with component names and desired port numbers. The installer uses the values from the file instead of the default port numbers.
Refer to Section 2.4.3 for more information about custom port numbers and the static ports feature.
In earlier versions, single-computer installation was supported only on the Windows and Linux platforms. The installation process required you to provide information before installation of each tier.
In Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g, single-computer installation is available for all platforms. Unlike earlier releases, it enables you to enter all required information at the beginning of the installation.
Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Release 1 (10.1.2) does not create or use the emtab
file because each Oracle Collaboration Suite instance has its own Oracle Enterprise Manager Web Site (or Application Server Control, for short).
If you installed a previous release on your computer, then you might have the emtab
file from that release.
Oracle Collaboration Suite Database, which was previously known as Information Storage, now combines all schemas required by Oracle Collaboration Suite in to a single database. Data is registered in Oracle Internet Directory during the installation of Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Database.
The following functionalities have been added to the Applications tier of Oracle Collaboration Suite:
Support for Oracle Mail configuration
This removes the need to perform Oracle Mail-related postinstallation steps.
Support for Oracle Content Services configuration
This removes the need to start the configuration assistant in the interactive mode during a typical installation.
Support for selection of Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Databases to be used for components that you select
Support for selection of well-known ports during the installation
In addition, the installation ensures that the Identity Management pointed to during installation is release 9.0.4.1 or later. This is required for all components to register properly in Oracle Internet Directory.
Also, Federated Search has been incorporated in to the installation process and combined with Oracle Ultra Search, and the search option is now called Oracle Collaboration Suite Search.
In this release, Oracle Collaboration Suite supports the following high availability environments:
Oracle Calendar Cold Failover Cluster
Distributed Identity Management Architecture
Colocated Identity Management Architecture
Single Cluster Architecture
In addition, for each environment, you can distribute the Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Database and Identity Management components over several computers. In earlier releases, you had to install all the components on the same computer.
You can specify that components connect to Oracle Internet Directory using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) only.
Manual configuration is not required for Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Release 1 (10.1.2). The configuration assistants perform nearly all the postinstallation tasks. Also, now configuration assistants:
Write log files in a central location
Write descriptive error messages in the log files
Note: The configuration assistant for Oracle Content Services does not write to a central location. Also, you cannot run the configuration assistant for Oracle Content Services standalone. |
The installer performs more prerequisite checks to ensure that your computer meets the minimum requirements.
The installer now provides command-line options for monitoring resources used for installation. The following options are supported:
-printtime
prints the time taken for installation.
-printmemory
prints the memory used for installation.
-printdiskusage
prints the disk space used for installation.
Example: the following command prints information for all three items:
./runInstaller -printtime -printmemory -printdiskusage
Table A-1 lists terms updated in Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g (10.1.2). The Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g documentation set uses these new terms.
Table A-1 Changed Terminology
Term in Release 2 (9.0.4.2) | Term in 10g (10.1.2) |
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Information Storage |
Oracle Collaboration Suite Database |
Integrated Web Client |
Oracle Collaboration Suite Web Access |
Oracle Files |
Oracle Content Services |
Middle tier |
Applications tier |
No corresponding name |
Client tier |
Oracle Email |
Oracle Mail |
Oracle Ultra Search |
Oracle Collaboration Suite Search |
Oracle Wireless |
Oracle Mobile Collaboration |
In earlier releases, the installer created an Oracle9i Release 1 (9.0.1.3) Database and loaded the Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Database in that database.
In this release, the installer creates an Oracle 10g Database for Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Database.
To configure this database during installation, the installer displays these new screens:
Specify Database Configuration Options
Specify Database Schema Passwords
For details, refer to Section 4.4.2.