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Oracle® Application Server Forms and Reports Services Installation Guide
10g Release 2 (10.1.2) for Microsoft Windows (64-Bit) on Intel Itanium B25338-01 |
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Oracle® Application Server Forms and Reports Services Installation Guide
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This chapter contains the following topics:
Section 4.2, "First-Time Installation of Any Oracle Product"
Section 4.4, "Forms and Reports Services Instances and Instance Names"
The directory in which you install Forms and Reports Services is called the Oracle home. During installation, you must specify the full path to this directory and a name for this Oracle home.
For example, you can install Forms and Reports Services in /opt/oracle/ and you can name it oralinfrs.
If Forms and Reports Services is the first Oracle product to be installed on a computer, the installer displays a screen where you specify an "inventory" directory (also called the "oraInventory" directory). This inventory directory is used by the installer to keep track of all Oracle products installed on the computer.
The inventory directory is separate from the Oracle home directory for Forms and Reports Services.
To ensure that other users in the oinstall group have access to the inventory directory (so that they can install Oracle products), do not use the oracle user's home directory as the inventory directory because home directories might not have the proper permissions set up for the oinstall group. Instead, you can put the inventory directory in the \opt\oracle directory (for example, \opt\oracle\oraInventory).
If you have installed an Oracle product on the computer previously, the installer uses the existing inventory directory. Ensure that you have write permissions on that directory. The best way of ensuring this is to run the installer as the same operating system user who installed the existing Oracle products.
It is recommended that you create an operating system user to perform all tasks related to installation of Oracle products. See Section 3.9, "Operating System User".
By default, the installer installs Forms and Reports Services with text in English and in the operating system language. If you need to install additional languages, click Product Languages on the Available Product Components screen.
Note that you cannot install additional languages after installation. You must install additional languages only during installation. If you run Forms and Reports Services in an environment that uses a language you did not install, the user interface may display text in that language and in English, or it may display square boxes (caused by missing fonts) instead of text.
When you install Forms and Reports Services, an instance of Forms and Reports Services is created. The installer prompts you to provide a name for this new instance that you are installing. For example, you can name an instance oralinfrs or J2EE_1012. This name can be different from the Oracle home name. You cannot change this name after installation.
The Enterprise Manager appends the hostname and domain name to the given instance name to form a complete instance name. For example, if you are installing an instance on a computer named c1, and you name the instance frs1, then the full name of the instance is frs1.c1.mydomain.com, assuming the domain name is mydomain.com.
Valid Characters in Instance Names
Instance names can consist only of the alphanumeric characters (A-Z, a-z, 0-9) and the $ or _ (underscore) characters.
There is no maximum length restriction for instance names.
How Forms and Reports Services Uses Instance Names
Instance names are important because Forms and Reports Services uses them to uniquely identify instances. This means that if you install multiple Forms and Reports Services instances on the same computer (for example, an OracleAS Infrastructure 10g and a J2EE and Web Cache instance), you must give them different names.
When you administer Forms and Reports Services using Oracle Enterprise Manager Application Server Control, the instance name appears on the screens. You can click the instance name to see details about the instance, such as the components that are installed in that instance, whether the components are running or stopped, and the log files for the components. The Application Server Control is a browser-based administration tool for Forms and Reports Services. See the Oracle Application Server Administrator's Guide for details about this administration tool.
The installer prompts you to specify a password for the ias_admin user. The ias_admin user is the administrative user for Forms and Reports Services instances. To manage Forms and Reports Services instances using Application Server Control, log on as ias_admin.
On a computer, you can install multiple Forms and Reports Services instances, each with its own unique instance name, but the name of the administrative user is ias_admin for all instances. The password for the ias_admin user can be different for each instance.
Each Forms and Reports Services instance has its own password. Even if you install multiple Forms and Reports Services instances on the same computer using the same operating system user, you have to enter a new password for each instance on the same computer.
Password for the ias_admin User
The password for the ias_admin user must conform to the following password policy:
The minimum length is five alphanumeric characters.
At least one of the characters must be a number.
The password for the ias_admin user has these restrictions:
Passwords must be shorter than 30 characters.
Passwords can contain only alphanumeric characters from your database character set, the underscore (_), the dollar sign ($), and the number sign (#).
Passwords must begin with an alphabetic character. Passwords cannot begin with a number, the underscore (_), the dollar sign ($), or the number sign (#).
Passwords cannot be Oracle reserved words. Appendix C in the Oracle9i SQL Reference guide lists the reserved words. You can find this guide on Oracle Technology Network (http://www.oracle.com/technology). Alternatively, avoid using words that sound as though they may be reserved words.
You must remember the password because you need to enter it to perform the following task:
When you log on to Application Server Control to manage Forms and Reports Services, you log on as the ias_admin user.
If you forget the password, you can reset it. See the Oracle Application Server Administrator's Guide for details.
The installer writes files to the following directories:
Table 4-1 Directories to Which the Installer Writes Files
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Oracle home directory |
Directory in which you install Oracle Application Server 10g Forms and Reports Services. |
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Directory that the installer uses to keep track of the Oracle products installed on the computer. In subsequent installations, the installer uses the same inventory directory. |
To start Oracle Universal Installer:
Log in to the computer as a user who is a member of the Windows Administrators group.
If you are installing Oracle Application Server on a multihomed computer or a computer that uses multiple aliases, use the Windows System control panel to create the ORACLE_HOSTNAME system environment variable. Set this variable to point to the hostname of the computer on which you are installing Oracle Application Server.
If you are installing from your hard drive, go to the next step.
CD-ROM users: Insert Oracle Application Server Disk 1 into the CD-ROM drive.
DVD users: Insert the Oracle Application Server DVD into the DVD drive.
If you are installing from a CD-ROM or DVD and your computer supports the auto run feature, the installer launches automatically.
If you are installing from your hard drive or your computer does not support the auto run feature, you have to start up the installer manually:
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Note: If you are running the installer on a computer that is already running Oracle Database 10g, then you have to start up the installer with the following option:E:\> setup.exe -J-Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true If you do not start up the installer with the option, then the installer may not display. |
CD-ROM users: Double-click setup.exe in the main directory of the CD.
DVD users: Double-click setup.exe in the application_server directory.
Hard Drive users: Double-click setup.exe in the directory where you unzipped the Disk 1 file.
