Oracle® Application Server Release Notes 10g Release 3 (10.1.3) for Microsoft Windows (64-Bit) on Intel Itanium B28115-07 |
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This chapter describes installation and upgrade issues and their workarounds associated with Oracle Application Server. It includes the following topics:
This section describes issues with installation of Oracle Application Server. It includes the following topics:
Section 2.1.1, "sl_DlgClusterInfoWebReturn Parameter Does Not Work in Silent Installations"
Section 2.1.3, "Response Files Created through the Record Mode Are Not Supported"
Oracle Application Server Installation Guide 10g Release 3 (10.1.3) lists sl_DlgClusterInfoWebReturn
as one of the parameters that can be included in the response file for silent installations. This parameter is supposed to allow you add the instance to a cluster; however, it does not work and you will find that the instance is not clustered after the installation has completed.
To work around this problem, you can add the instance to a cluster by manually updating the opmn.xml
file with the following tags after you finish the silent installation:
<topology> <discover list="*ip_address:port"/> </topology>
These tags must be nested within the <notification-server>
tag.
For more detailed instructions, refer to Oracle Application Server High Availability Guide 10g Release 3 (10.1.3), section 3.2.1.2, "Discovery Server Method".
Sun Microsystems Java Access Bridge enables assistive technologies, such as the JAWS screen reader, to read Java applications running on the Microsoft Windows platform. Assistive technologies can read Java-based interfaces, such as Oracle Universal Installer and Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Application Server Control.
If you require the use of assistive technologies, you can obtain Java Access Bridge 2.0 at http://java.sun.com/products/accessbridge/
.
If you want to run the installer with a response file (to perform a silent or non-interactive installation), you cannot use response files created through the -record
command-line option in the installer, as described in the "Creating Response Files by Using the Record Mode in the Installer" section in the Oracle Application Server Installation Guide. Instead, you must use response files that were created from the provided response file templates; you replace the placeholder values in the template files with your own values.
This release of Oracle Application Server is not certified to run on machines that are configured with IPv6. You have to install and run this release of Oracle Application Server on machines that are configured with IPv4.
This section describes issues with upgrade of Oracle Application Server. It includes the following topic:
If you are deploying an OEMS JMS Database application on Oracle Application Server 10g Release (10.1.3), note that you must verify that the manage-local-transactions attribute in the data-sources.xml file is set to false.
The following example shows the managed-data-source element in the data-sources.xml file with the required attribute for OEMS JMS Database applications:
<managed-data-source name="OracleDS" connection-pool-name="Example Connection Pool" jndi-name="jdbc/OracleDS" *manage-local-transactions="false"*/>.
This section describes known errors in Oracle Application Server installation and upgrade documentation. It includes the following topic:
Section 2.3.2, "Incorrect Ports Listed in the Oracle Application Server Installation Guide"
Section 2.3.3, "Additional Steps Required When Creating Cold Failover Cluster (CFC) Environment"
Section 2.3.4, "ORACLE_HOSTNAME Environment Variable Does Not Work"
Section 2.3.5, "PATH, CLASSPATH, and LD_LIBRARY_PATH May be Set or Unset When Running Installer"
The Oracle Application Server Installation Guide and Oracle Application Server Quick Installation Guide refer to multiple installation CDs. However, there is only one installation CD for Oracle Application Server 10g.
Additionally, in the Oracle Application Server Quick Installation Guide, the second step in section 5 "Starting the Installer" should be:
2. Insert the disk:
CD-ROM: Insert the Oracle Application Server CD-ROM.
DVD-ROM: Insert the Oracle Application Server DVD-ROM.
In Table B-1, "Default Port Numbers and Ranges (Grouped By Component)", in the Oracle Application Server Installation Guide, the allotted port range is incorrectly listed for the Listen (SSL) and SSL ports. The correct port numbers are as follows:
For the Listen (SSL) port:
Allotted port range: 4443 - 4543
Default port number: 4443
For the SSL port:
Allotted port range: 4443 - 4543
Default port number: 4443
In Section 6.3, "Creating the Active-Passive Topology" in the Oracle Application Server Installation Guide, some necessary steps to make the system available via the opmnctl
command are not documented. The steps are:
Open ORACLE_HOME
/opmn/conf/opmn.xml
in a text editor.
Add the following element to the <notification-server>
directive:
<ipaddr remote="<Virtual_IP>
" request="<Virtual_IP>
"/>
For example, if the cluster's virtual IP is 123.45.67.89:
<notification-server> <ipaddr remote="123.45.67.89" request="123.45.67.89"/> <port local="6100" remote="6200" request="6000"/>
Save the change, then restart the service from the Windows Service Console.
In the section "Installing on Multihomed (Multi-IP) Computers," the Oracle Application Server Installation Guide states:
"By default, Oracle Universal Installer uses the ORACLE_HOSTNAME environment variable setting to find the hostname. If ORACLE_HOSTNAME is not set and you are installing on a computer that has multiple network cards, Oracle Universal Installer determines the hostname by using the first name in the /etc/hosts
file."
This is incorrect. There is no default behavior, and the only way to set the hostname is by running Oracle Universal Installer with the OUI_HOSTNAME switch as follows:
> runInstaller OUI_HOSTNAME=hostname
The "Environment Variables" section of Oracle Application Server Installation Guide 10g Release 3 (10.1.3) states that the PATH
, CLASSPATH
, and LD_LIBRARY_PATH
environment variables must not contain references to directories in any Oracle home directories.
This is not correct. It does not matter, if the PATH
, LD_LIBRARY_PATH
, and CLASSPATH
variables are set or unset before running the installer, and it does not matter if they contain references to directories in any Oracle home directories.