This chapter provides information about verifying the installation to check if it completed successfully. In addition, it provides information about the steps for deinstalling and reinstalling Oracle Traffic Director.
This document contains the following sections:
You can verify whether the installation was completed properly by examining the installation log file, looking at the directories and files in the Oracle home directory, and by trying to access the Oracle Traffic Director administration console.
The installer creates log files in the logs subdirectory within the Oracle inventory directory.
Note:
If you do not know the location of the Oracle inventory directory, you can find the path to it in theORACLE_HOME/oraInst.loc file.The logs directory contains the following files:
installdate-time-stamp.log
This is the main log file.
installdate-time-stamp.out
This log file contains the output and error streams during the installation.
installdate-time-stamp.out
This log file contains the output and error streams during the installation.
launcher-time-stamp.log
This file contains the date/time the launcher was initiated.
installProfiledate-time-stamp.log
This log file contains the overall statistics, like time taken to complete the installation, as well as configuration, memory, and CPU details.
oraInstalldate-time-stamp.log
This log file contains the output stream of the copy session.
timeTakendate-time-stamp.log
This file is created only if you start the installer with the -printtime option. It contains information for the amount of time taken to move between screens (applicable for GUI installations only).
timedate-time-stamp.log
This file is created only if you start the installer with the -printtime option. It contains time information for the copy session.
memorydate-time-stamp.log
This file is created only if you start the installer with the -printmemory option. It contains memory usage information for the copy session.
After installing Oracle Traffic Director and performing the post-installation steps, verify that the Oracle home directory contains the following directories:
bin cfgtoollogs coherence crs css em has install inventory jlib ldap lib network nls OPatch oracle_common oracore otd oui plsql plugins precomp rdbms slax sqlplus srvm webgate wlserver xdk
After you successfully install WebLogic Server, create and configure a WebLogic domain using the Configuration Wizard.
For more information, see Configuring the WebLogic Server Domain for Oracle Traffic Director in Administering Oracle Traffic Director.
You might want to remove an Oracle Traffic Director installation, either to remove files pertaining to a failed installation or to install a newer version.
You should always use the instructions provided here for removing the software. If you try to remove the software manually, you may experience problems when you try to reinstall the software at a later time. Following the procedure described here will ensure that the software is properly removed.
To deinstall Oracle Traffic Director, perform the following steps:
Delete all the configured OTD instances from the Oracle Traffic Director WLST command-line interface to remove the all instances of Oracle Traffic Director available in the specified DOMAIN_HOME. This procedure also ensures that all related configuration settings such as services, failover configurations and so on are fully removed.
After deleting all OTD instances and Configurations, run the following command:
$ORACLE_HOME/oui/bin/deinstall.sh
The deinstallation wizard starts.
Follow the on-screen prompts and instructions provided on the screens of the installation wizard.
For more information about a specific screen, click the Help button on the screen.
You cannot reinstall Oracle Traffic Director in a directory that already contains an installation of the product.
To reinstall Oracle Traffic Director, perform the following steps:
Deinstall the existing installation by following the procedure described in Section 3.3, "Deinstalling Oracle Traffic Director."
Install Oracle Traffic Director as described in Section 2.3, "Installation Procedure."