How to Install Oracle Single-Instance Software for Oracle Database 10g

Steps

1. In the Common Tasks section of the N1 Grid SPS browser interface, select Oracle Database 10g.

2. On the Oracle Database 10g Common Tasks page, click Install.

3. On the Plans Details page, click Run.

4. Choose variables to use for the Oracle support scripts.

   • To use an existing variables set, select a name from the drop-down menu in the OraSpt component row of the Plan Parameters table.

   • To create a new variables set, click Select from List in the OraSpt component row of the Plan Parameters table.

     1. Click Create Set.

     2. Type a name for the variables set.

     3. In the field for installPath, provide the full path to the location into which you want the support scripts installed.

        For example, /var/tmp/Ora_Spt.

     4. In the field for installerHome, provide the full path to the location of the Oracle software files.

        For example, /mnt/Ora10gR1.

        This path can point to a CD or to some other location in which you have placed the appropriate files. For Oracle 10g, the installerHome variable points to the top directory of the software CD, which is the parent directory above the Disk1 directory.

     5. For single-instance support files, verify that the racInstall field is set to FALSE.

     6. Save the variables set.

     7. Select the variables set that you just saved from the drop-down menu in the OraSpt component row of the Plan Parameters table.

5. Choose variables to use for the single-instance software.

   • To use an existing variables set, select a name from the drop-down menu in the SingleInst component row of the Plan Parameters table.

   • To create a new variables set, click Select from List in the SingleInst component row of the Plan Parameters table.

     1. Click Create Set.

     2. Type a name for the variables set.

     3. In the field for installPath, provide the full path to the location where you want to place the Oracle silent response file.

        For example, /var/tmp/Oracle10g.

     4. If a component already exists on this host for which the default value for ORACLE_HOME_NAME is used, define a value for the variable ORACLE_HOME_NAME.

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        Note –

        Two components installed in the same physical host cannot have the same ORACLE_HOME_NAME.

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     5. In the field for installerHome, provide the full path to the location of the Oracle software files.

        For example, /mnt/Ora10gR1.

        This path can point to a CD or to some other location in which you have placed the appropriate files. The installerHome variable points to the top directory of the software, which is the parent directory above the Disk1 directory.

     6. In the field for ORACLE_BASE, provide the path to the root directory into which you want the Oracle software to be installed.

        For example, /opt/app/oracle.

     7. To run the Oracle listener on this host, set the value for crListener to TRUE.

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        Note –

        You should run only one Oracle listener per physical host.

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     8. Verify that the softGroup and dbaGroup variables are correct.

        1. On the target host, type the following command: id -a oracle.

        2. Note the group names that were created for the oracle user.

        3. If the group names are different from the default names in the softGroup or dbaGroup fields, change those values as appropriate.

     9. Verify that the TOPLEVEL_COMPONENT variable exactly matches the version of Oracle to install.

        For example, if you intend to install 10.1.0.3.0, you must change the value of the TOPLEVEL_COMPONENT variable from its default of 10.1.0.2.0 to 10.1.0.3.0.

     10. Change other variables as appropriate.

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         Note –

         For the oraPrflFile variable, the environment file must be either a Bourne shell, Korn shell, or bash profile. C shell is not supported.

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     11. Save the variables set.

     12. Select the variables set that you just saved from the drop-down menu in the SingleInst component row of the Plan Parameters table.

6. To select the target host, click Select from List next to the Target Host field on the Plans Details Run page.

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   Note –

   Although the plug-in enables you to install this component into a host set, host sets are more likely to make sense for a RAC install rather than a single-instance install.

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7. To install the software, click Run Plan (includes preflight).