Preface

The Oracle Application Server Installation Guide covers requirements, new features in the Oracle Universal Installer, Oracle Application Server concepts that affect installation, installation procedures, and troubleshooting tips. In addition, this guide also provides some sample topologies for installing and running Oracle Application Server.

Intended Audience

This guide is intended for users who are comfortable running some system administration operations, such as creating users and groups, adding users to groups, and installing operating system patches on the computer where Oracle Application Server is going to be installed. Users who are installing Oracle Application Server need root access to run some scripts.

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Structure

This guide contains the following chapters and appendixes:

Chapter 1, "Summary of Installation Steps"

This chapter provides an overview of the installation steps.

Chapter 2, "What's New in the Installation"

This chapter describes new features in Oracle Application Server that affect the installation procedure.

Chapter 3, "Compatibility with Earlier Releases"

This chapter just gives a pointer to the Oracle Application Server Upgrade and Compatibility Guide, which covers compatibility topics.

Chapter 4, "Requirements"

This chapter lists the requirements for installing and running Oracle Application Server.

Chapter 5, "Things You Should Know Before Starting the Installation"

This chapter provides an overview of Oracle Application Server and its components. Understanding how the components fit together can help you make some installation decisions.

Chapter 6, "Installing OracleAS Infrastructure"

This chapter describes the OracleAS Infrastructure components (the OracleAS Metadata Repository and the Identity Management components). It also provides procedures on how to install the infrastructure in different configurations.

Chapter 7, "Installing Middle Tiers"

This chapter describes the different types of middle tiers: J2EE and Web Cache, and Portal and Wireless.

Chapter 8, "Configuring Oracle Internet Directory for Oracle Application Server Installation Privileges"

This chapter describes how to add users to groups in Oracle Internet Directory so that they can install Oracle Application Server instances against the same Oracle Internet Directory.

Chapter 9, "Installing Oracle Internet Directory in Replicated Mode"

This chapter describes how to install the master Oracle Internet Directory and Oracle Internet Directory replicas.

Chapter 10, "Installing in High Availability Environments: Overview and Common Requirements"

This chapter gives an overview of the supported high availability environments: OracleAS Cold Failover Cluster, OracleAS Cluster (Identity Management), and OracleAS Disaster Recovery.

Chapter 11, "Installing in High Availability Environments: OracleAS Cold Failover Cluster"

This chapter gives details on how to install Oracle Application Server in an OracleAS Cold Failover Cluster environment.

Chapter 12, "Installing in High Availability Environments: OracleAS Cluster (Identity Management)"

This chapter gives details on how to install Oracle Application Server in an OracleAS Cluster (Identity Management) environment.

Chapter 13, "Installing in High Availability Environments: OracleAS Disaster Recovery"

This chapter gives details on how to install Oracle Application Server in an OracleAS Disaster Recovery environment.

Chapter 14, "Installing the OracleAS Metadata Repository in an Existing Database"

This chapter just gives a pointer to the Oracle Application Server Metadata Repository Creation Assistant User's Guide.

Chapter 15, "Recommended Topologies"

This chapter describes how to create recommended development and deployment topologies for Oracle Application Server.

Chapter 16, "Post-Installation Tasks"

This chapter describes additional set-up steps that you should do after installation.

Appendix A, "Installing OracleAS Developer Kits"

This appendix describes how to install the OracleAS Developer Kits.

Appendix B, "Silent and Non-Interactive Installation"

This appendix describes how to install Oracle Application Server using response files.

Appendix C, "Default Port Numbers"

This appendix lists the port numbers assigned to components by the installer.

Appendix D, "Ports to Open in Firewalls"

This appendix shows the ports that you have to open in a firewall if you are installing and running Oracle Application Server in such environments.

Appendix E, "Deinstallation and Reinstallation"

This appendix describes how to remove Oracle Application Server from your computer.

Appendix F, "Configuration Assistants"

This appendix describes the configuration assistants run by the installer.

Appendix G, "Troubleshooting"

This appendix describes how to solve problems that might arise during installation and deinstallation.

Appendix H, "Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES Installation Notes"

This appendix contains some notes on Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES .

Related Documents

For additional information, see the following manuals:

• Oracle Application Server Administrator's Guide

• Oracle Application Server Concepts

• Oracle Application Server High Availability Guide

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