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Preface

1 Installation Concepts

1.1 Oracle9iAS 9.0.3 Installation Overview

1.2 Using an Oracle9iAS Infrastructure 9.0.2

1.2.1 Oracle9iAS Infrastructure 9.0.2

1.2.2 Farm

1.2.3 Clustering

1.3 Deployment Topologies

1.3.1 Oracle9iAS 9.0.3 Installation

1.3.2 Oracle9iAS 9.0.3 with Oracle9iAS Infrastructure 9.0.2

1.3.3 Multiple Instances of Oracle9iAS 9.0.3 with Oracle9iAS Infrastructure 9.0.2

1.4 Additional Products

1.4.1 Oracle9iAS TopLink

1.4.2 Oracle9iAS Portal Developer Kit for J2EE and Web Services

2 Getting Started

2.1 Preinstallation Summary

2.2 Hardware Requirements

2.2.1 Network Requirements

2.3 Operating System Requirements

2.4 Certified Software

2.5 Preinstallation Tasks

2.5.1 Release Notes

2.5.2 Ulimit and Swap File Settings

2.5.3 Creating UNIX Accounts and Groups

2.5.4 Setting Environment Variables

2.5.5 Host Name File Configuration

2.5.6 Port Allocation

2.5.7 Preinstallation Tasks for HP 9000 Series HP-UX

2.5.8 Preinstallation Tasks for HP Tru64 UNIX

2.5.9 Preinstallation Tasks for Linux

2.5.10 Preinstallation Tasks for AIX

2.6 Oracle Universal Installer

2.6.1 About Oracle Universal Installer

2.6.2 Oracle Universal Installer Prerequisite Checks

2.6.3 Oracle Universal Installer oraInventory Directory

2.6.4 Mounting the Installation CD-ROM

2.6.5 Starting Oracle Universal Installer

2.7 Installation

2.7.1 Installation Sequence

2.7.2 Installation Considerations

2.7.3 Additional Oracle9iAS 9.0.3 Installations

3 Installation

3.1 Installation

3.2 Postinstallation

3.2.1 Restrictions

3.2.2 Installing the Oracle9i Application Server 9.0.2.1 Patch

3.2.3 About the Oracle Enterprise Manager Web Site

3.2.4 Associating an Instance with an Infrastructure (Joining a Farm)

3.2.5 Component Dependent Configuration

3.2.6 Configuring Additional Components

3.2.7 Multi-User Installations

3.2.8 Postinstallation Configuration Tasks

3.2.9 Starting and Stopping Components

3.2.10 Component Port Numbers

3.2.11 Changing the X Server Display

3.2.12 Oracle9iAS 9.0.3 Demonstration Software

3.2.13 Oracle9iAS TopLink

3.2.14 Oracle9iAS Portal Developer Kit for J2EE and Web Services

3.2.15 Additional Documentation

3.2.16 Correcting Errors Created by Using newgrp Command on Linux Intel

4 Silent and Non-Interactive Installation

4.1 Introduction

4.1.1 Silent Installation

4.1.2 Non-Interactive Installation

4.2 Requirements

4.3 Preinstallation

4.4 Create the Response File

4.4.1 Oracle9iAS 9.0.3 Without Oracle9iAS Single Sign-On

4.4.2 Oracle9iAS 9.0.3 With Oracle9iAS Single Sign-On

4.5 Start the Installation

4.6 Postinstallation

4.6.1 Oracle9iAS 9.0.3 without Oracle9iAS Single Sign-On

4.6.2 Oracle9iAS 9.0.3 with Oracle9iAS Single Sign-On

4.7 Response File Parameter Definitions

5 Deinstallation and Reinstallation

5.1 Deinstallation

5.1.1 Deinstalling an Oracle9iAS 9.0.3 Instance

5.1.2 Deinstalling by Manually Removing All Oracle Products

5.2 Reinstallation

A Default Port Numbers and Port Ranges

A.1 Oracle9iAS 9.0.3 Port Usage Sorted by Component

A.2 Oracle9iAS 9.0.3 Port Usage Sorted by Port Number

B Troubleshooting

B.1 Troubleshooting the Installation

B.1.1 Verify Hardware and Preinstallation Requirements

B.1.2 What to Do If An Installation Error Occurs

B.2 Troubleshooting Oracle9iAS Configuration Assistants

B.2.1 Configuration Assistant Failure

B.2.2 Failure During Component Configuration and Startup

B.2.3 Fatal Errors

B.3 Descriptions of Oracle9iAS Configuration Assistants

B.3.1 BC4J Configuration Assistant

B.3.2 Clickstream Collector Agent Configuration Assistant

B.3.3 DCM Repository Backup Assistant

B.3.4 Enterprise Manager Web site Configuration Assistant

B.3.5 HTTP Server Configuration Assistant

B.3.6 Infrastructure Use Configuration Assistant

B.3.7 Java Security Configuration Assistant

B.3.8 OC4J Configuration Assistant

B.3.9 OC4J Instance Configuration Assistant

B.3.10 OPMN Configuration Assistant

B.3.11 Oracle9iAS Instance Configuration Assistant

B.3.12 Oracle9iAS Web Cache Configuration Assistant

Index