| Oracle® Collaboration Suite Installation Guide 10g Release 1 (10.1.2) for Microsoft Windows Part Number B25463-03 |
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| Oracle® Collaboration Suite Installation Guide 10g Release 1 (10.1.2) for Microsoft Windows Part Number B25463-03 |
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This chapter guides you through silent and noninteractive installation of Oracle Collaboration Suite.
This chapter contains the following sections:
Section 10.1, "Introduction to Noninteractive Installations"
Section 10.3, "Installing Oracle Application Server Certificate Authority"
Section 10.7, "Creating a Response File Using the Record Mode in the Installer"
Section 10.8, "Specifying a Response File and Starting the Installation"
Section 10.10, "Security Tips for Silent and Noninteractive Installations"
Section 10.13, "Using Configuration Assistants in Noninteractive Mode"
Oracle Collaboration Suite features the following two noninteractive methods of installation:
Silent installation eliminates the need to monitor the Oracle Collaboration Suite installation because there is no graphical output and no input by the user. It is accomplished by supplying Oracle Universal Installer with a response file and specifying the -silent flag on the command line.
If this is the first-time installation of Oracle Collaboration Suite, then you must create the registry keys before starting. Refer to Section 10.4, "Creating Registry Keys" for more information about creating registry keys.
You should use silent installation of Oracle Collaboration Suite when you want similar installations on more than one computer. Additionally, you can use silent installation when performing the Oracle Collaboration Suite installation from a remote location using the command line.
The response file used in a silent installation is a text file. Oracle Universal Installer uses variables and values specified in the response file to provide answers to all of its user prompts. Therefore, you must include responses for all of the prompts in the response file.
Noninteractive installations of Oracle Collaboration Suite display a graphical output. If you have not provided responses to all of the user prompts, then you may need to enter information during the installation.
Noninteractive installation of Oracle Collaboration Suite is also accomplished by supplying the Oracle Universal Installer with a response file, but without specifying the -silent flag on the command line. Oracle Universal Installer uses the variables and values contained in the response file to provide answers to some or all of its user prompts.
If this is the first time-installation of Oracle Collaboration Suite, then you must create the registry keys before starting. Refer to Section 10.4, "Creating Registry Keys" for more information about creating registry keys.
Use noninteractive installation of Oracle Collaboration Suite when there are specific screens you want to observe during installation.
For a complete list of installation requirements, refer to Chapter 2.
If you are installing OracleAS Certificate Authority, check the following:
If you are installing OracleAS Certificate Authority against an existing Oracle Internet Directory, then ensure that the Oracle Internet Directory has Oracle Application Server Single Sign-On configured. If not, the OracleAS Certificate Authority Configuration Assistant will fail.
If you are installing OracleAS Certificate Authority with a new Oracle Internet Directory, then ensure that you are also configuring OracleAS Single Sign-On. If not, the OracleAS Certificate Authority Configuration Assistant will fail.
In interactive mode, the installer performs the checks for you and displays a warning if the requirements are not met. However, in silent or noninteractive mode, the installer is not able to display a warning.
If you have not installed Oracle Collaboration Suite on your computer, then you must create the following Registry Keys Values:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE / SOFTWARE / Oracle / inst_loc = Inventory_Location\Inventory
The Inventory_Location is the location of your installer files. For example:
Drive_Letter:\oracle\oraInventory
Before performing a silent or noninteractive installation, you must provide information specific to your installation in a response file. The installer will fail if you attempt an installation using a response file that is not configured correctly. Response files are text files that you can create or edit in a text editor.
The Oracle Collaboration Suite DVD Pack provides templates for the Oracle Universal Installer response files for the installations shown in Table 10-1.
Table 10-1 Response Files
| For This Installation... | The File Name Is... |
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| Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Infrastructure | infra_complete.rsp |
| Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Infrastructure: Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Database only | infra_dbonly.rsp |
| Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Infrastructure: Identity Management only | infra_imonly.rsp |
| Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Infrastructure: Enabling customer Database as Oracle Collaboration Suite Database | infra_enabledb.rsp |
| Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Infrastructure and Oracle Collaboration Suite 10g Infrastructure (Single-computer installation) | infra_and_apps.rsp |
| Oracle Collaboration Suite Applications |
ocs_apps.rsp |
Response files are located in the \response directory on Disk 1 of the Oracle Collaboration Suite DVD pack. You must edit the response file according to your requirements for silent or noninteractive installation.
To use a response file, first copy it from the DVD to your system.
For example:
Go to the \response directory (on the first DVD of the Oracle Collaboration Suite installation DVD set).
Copy the infra_complete.rsp file to your system hard drive:
# cp infra_complete.rsp Drive_Letter\ocs_infr_cd1\response\infrastructure.rsp
Use any text editor to edit the response file to include information specific for your system. The response file text identifies information that you must provide.
You must specify values for variables in your response file. Each variable listed in the response file is associated with a comment, which identifies the variable type. For example:
string = "Sample Value"
Boolean = True or False
Number = 1000
StringList = {"StringValue 1", "String Value 2"}
The values that are given as <Value Required> must be specified for silent installation.
Remove the comment from the variable values in the response file before starting the Oracle Collaboration Suite installation.
You can run the installer in record mode to save your inputs to a file that you can use later as a response file. This feature is useful if you need to perform the same installation on different computers.To run the installer in record mode:
Start the installer with the -record and -destinationFile parameters.
Drive_Letter:\> setup.exe -record -destinationFile newResponseFile
Replace newResponseFile with the full path to the response file that you want the installer to create.
Example: Drive_Letter:\my_infra_complete.rsp
Enter your values in the installer screens. The installer will write these values to the file specified in the -destinationFile parameter.
When you get to the Summary screen, the installer automatically writes all the values that you supplied to the specified file. At this point, you can complete the installation on this computer, or you can exit without performing the installation.
Before you specify a response file, ensure that all the values in the response file are correct. Refer to Section 10.6 for more information.
To make Oracle Universal Installer use the response file at installation time, specify the location of the response file as a parameter when starting Oracle Universal Installer.
To perform a noninteractive installation:
Drive_Letter:\> setup.exe -responseFile absolute_path_and_filename
To perform a silent installation, use the -silent parameter:
Drive_Letter:\> setup.exe -silent -responseFile absolute_path_and_filename
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Warning: During installation, response files may be copied to subdirectories under %ORACLE_HOME% in order to install some Collaboration Suite components. When the installation completes successfully, these copies are removed. If the installation fails, however, these copies may not be removed. If you have provided passwords or other sensitive information in your response files, Oracle recommends that you delete any copies of the response files that remain in your file system. |
The success or failure of the noninteractive and silent installations is logged in the installActions.log file. Additionally, the silent installation creates the silentInstall.log file. The log files are created in the C:\Program Files\Oracle\Inventory\oui_inventory\Logs directory.
The silentInstall.log file contains the following line if the installation was successful:
The installation of OracleAS <Installation Type> was successful.
The installActions.log file contains specific information for each Oracle Collaboration Suite installation type.
One of the pieces of information in the response file is the installation password. The password information is in clear text.
To minimize security issues regarding the password in the response file, follow these guidelines:
Set the permissions on the response files so that they are readable only by the operating system user who will be performing the silent or noninteractive installation.
If possible, remove the response files from the system after the silent or noninteractive installation is completed.
If you are installing the OracleAS Metadata Repository in silent or noninteractive mode, the installer creates these log files:
ORACLE_HOME\admin\<ORACLE_SID>\create\<ORACLE_SID>.log
ORACLE_HOME\cfgtoollogs\<ORACLE_SID>.log
In the above syntax, <ORACLE_SID> is the value of your database SID.
These log files contain database password information. If possible, you should remove these files from the system after reviewing their contents.
The success or failure of a silent or noninteractive installation is logged in the silentInstall.log file. This file is created in the oraInventory\log directory.
Values for variables that are of the wrong context, format, or type are treated as if no value were specified. Variables that are outside any section are ignored.
If you attempt a silent or noninteractive installation with an incorrect or incomplete response file, or Oracle Universal Installer encounters an error, such as insufficient disk space, the installation fails.
If you attempt a noninteractive installation without specifying a response file, the installation fails.
If you perform a silent installation with the staticports.ini file for ports less than 1024, the OPMN Configuration Assistant fails, and all the remaining configuration assistants do not run.
Before you run the configuration assistants from the command line, perform the following steps:
Start the installation using the following command:
Drive_Letter:\> setup.exe -silent -responseFile absolute_path_to_response_file
Ensure that you keep the console open. This is because installation status messages are displayed on the console as well as are logged in the inventory logs.
Locate the string "The installation of Oracle Collaboration Suite Infrastructure was successful". This string can also be located in the silentInstall<time_stamp>.log or installAction<time_stamp>.log files.
Open the %ORACLE_HOME, which is generated automatically. Search and replace all occurrences of %\cfgtoollogs\configToolCommands*Protected value, not to be logged* with the passwords you have in the response file.
LD_LIBRARY_PATH (to %ORACLE_HOME%\lib and %ORACLE_HOME%\network\lib)
Run the configuration assistants from the command line to rerun all the failed and skipped configuration assistants. The command for running the configuration assistants is:
%ORACLE_HOME%\cfgtoollogs\configToolCommands
If your silent or noninteractive installation fails, you must completely deinstall any files remaining from your Oracle Collaboration Suite installation attempt.
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See Also: Appendix J for detailed information on deinstallation of Oracle Collaboration Suite and its components |
You can perform a silent deinstallation of Oracle Collaboration Suite by supplying a silent deinstallation parameter to the response file you used for installation. Add the following parameter to your installation response file:
REMOVE_HOMES={"<ORACLE_HOME to be removed>"}
To perform a silent deinstallation, use the -silent parameter when you enter the following command:
Drive_Letter:\>setup.exe -silent -responseFile absolute_path_and_filename
All the Oracle Collaboration Suite configuration assistants, except for the configuration assistant for Oracle Content Services can be run in the noninteractive mode.
To use a configuration assistant in noninteractive mode, do one of the following:
Run the configuration assistant in standalone mode using the following command format:
# assistant_name [-silent] -responseFile filename
In the preceding command, assistant_name is the configuration assistant that you want to run and filename is the response file for that assistant.
Configure an Oracle Universal Installer response file to start the noninteractive configuration assistant.
If you perform an Oracle Collaboration Suite Database installation in noninteractive mode, then Oracle Net Configuration Assistant does not configure your system at the end of the installation. After the installation, run the Oracle Net configuration with the Oracle Net Configuration Assistant by executing the netca command from the Oracle home directory or use the netca.rsp response file.
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Note: Oracle Universal Installer or a configuration assistant fails if you attempt a noninteractive session without configuring a response file. Refer to Appendix K for more information about troubleshooting a failed noninteractive installation. |
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Oracle Universal Installer or most of the configuration assistants validate the response file at run time. If the validation fails, the noninteractive installation or configuration process ends. Oracle Universal Installer treats values for parameters that are of the wrong context, format, or type as if no value was specified in the file. Variables that are outside any section are also ignored.
Information about a failure is recorded in the log file of the installation session.
