L Downloading Installation Binaries and Uploading to Software Library or Staging Location

This chapter describes how you can download the installation binaries of the following, and upload them to Oracle Software Library (Software Library) or a shared location:

In particular, this chapter covers the following:

Downloading Installation Binaries

For information about downloading the installation binaries of Oracle Database and Oracle Database Replay Client, see My Oracle Support note 815567.1.

For information about downloading the installation binaries of Oracle Grid Infrastructure for standalone servers, and Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle RAC for clustered environments, see My Oracle Support note 1083691.1.

Uploading Installation Binaries to Software Library or Shared Location

This section describes how you can upload the installation binaries to either the Software Library or a shared location. In particular, this section covers the following:

Uploading Installation Binaries to Software Library

To upload the installation binaries to the Software Library, follow these steps:

  1. In Grid Control, click Deployments, then Provisioning.

  2. On the Components page, from the table, expand Oracle Components, and then RAC Provisioning.

  3. Under RAC Provisioning, expand the release of the database. For example, 10.2.0.1.0.

  4. Under the release of the database, expand the operating system.

  5. Under the operating system, select one of the following and click Edit.

    • For 11.1.0.6.0 or lower:

      • For Oracle Clusterware software binaries, select Oracle Clusterware shiphome.

      • For Oracle Database software binaries, select Oracle Database shiphome.'

      • For Oracle Database Replay Client software binaries, select Oracle Database Replay Client Install Media.

    • For 11.2.0.1.0 or higher:

      • For Oracle Grid Infrastructure software binaries, select Oracle Grid Infrastructure shiphome.

      • For Oracle Database software binaries, select Oracle Database shiphome.

      • For Oracle Database Replay Client software binaries, select Oracle Database Replay Client Install Media.

  6. On the Edit Component page, click the Upload File tab.

  7. On the Upload File page, select one of the following options and upload the software binaries:

    1. Upload from Agent Machine, if the software binaries are available on the host where the Management Agent is running.

    2. Upload from Local Machine, if the software binaries are available on the local host, that is, the host from where you are accessing the Grid Control console.

  8. Click Finish.

Uploading Installation Binaries to Shared Location

To upload the installation binaries to a shared location, simply use any file transfer utility to manually copy the installation binaries to a staging location.