| Oracle® Secure Enterprise Search Installation Guide 10g Release 1 (10.1.7) Beta for Microsoft Windows (32-Bit) Part Number B32012-01 |
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| Oracle® Secure Enterprise Search Installation Guide 10g Release 1 (10.1.7) Beta for Microsoft Windows (32-Bit) Part Number B32012-01 |
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Beta Draft
Installation Guide
10g Release 1 (10.1.7) Beta for Microsoft Windows (32-Bit)
B32012-01
August 2006
This document describes how to install Oracle Secure Enterprise Search (SES). It includes the following sections:
Oracle SES can be installed on the following operating systems:
Windows 2000
Windows Server 2003
Windows XP
This section contains the following topics:
This section lists software requirements for Microsoft Windows installations.
A Windows system must meet the following minimum operating system requirements:
Windows Server 2003
Windows 2000 (Service Pack 2 or higher)
Windows XP Professional
Oracle SES requires a minimum of 2 gigabytes of disk space. This includes 1 gigabyte to install and approximately 0.5 gigabytes to create the initial Oracle SES index. Additional Oracle SES requirements are based on the amount of data that you need to search. Here are some configuration examples:
To index 100,000 documents:
4 gigabytes disk space
1 gigabyte RAM
To index 1,000,000 documents:
20 gigabytes disk space
6 gigabytes RAM
For installation help, including pre-installation tips, see the Oracle SES tutorial:
http://st-curriculum.oracle.com/tutorial/SESAdminTutorial/index.htm
A loopback adapter is required if:
You are installing on a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) computer, or
You are installing on a non-networked computer and plan to connect the computer to a network after installation
For detailed instructions, see the Oracle Database Installation Guide 10g Release 1 (10.1.0.2.0) for Windows. This is posted at
http://download.oracle.com/docs/html/B10130_02/reqs.htm#sthref370.
For easy instructions on installing Oracle SES, see the Installation Tips tutorial:
http://st-curriculum.oracle.com/tutorial/SESAdminTutorial/index.htm
To install the Oracle Secure Enterprise Search software:
Ensure that you have checked all the minimum requirements, as described in "Pre-Installation Tasks".
Log on as a member of the Administrators group to the computer on which to install Oracle components.
If you are installing on a Primary Domain Controller (PDC) or a Backup Domain Controller (BDC), log on as a member of the Domain Administrators group.
Insert the CD or navigate to the directory where you downloaded or copied the installation files. Use the same installation media to install Oracle Secure Enterprise Search on all supported Windows platforms.
Start up the installer:
When installing from a hard disk, double-click setup.exe located in the directory you created for the downloaded or copied installation files.
When installing from the CD, enter the following
prompt> cd prompt> CDROM:\setup.exe
This launches Oracle Universal Installer. In the Oracle Universal Installer, the only value that you must specify is the administrative password. The remaining values are set to a default, but they can be overridden. Following is the list of the installation parameters:
Search Server Name: Name for your search server.
Administrative Password: The password that you will later use to log on to the administration tool.
HTTP Port: The port on which the Oracle SES middle tier will listen. For example, if you installed Oracle SES on host myhost.oracle.com and you specify port 7890, then your search page URL will be http://myhost.oracle.com:7890/search/query/search.
Destination Path: The location where Oracle SES software is installed
Data Storage Location: The location where Oracle SES will store its data.
The following screenshot shows the Oracle Universal Installer screen.
When all of the configuration tools have finished, click Exit, then click Yes to exit from Oracle Universal Installer.
The following URLs indicate a successful installation:
Search: http://host:port/search/query/search
Administration tool: http://host:port/search/admin/index.jsp (Log on using the password specified during installation.)
On Windows, Oracle SES cannot allocate memory (SGA + PGA) correctly if the machine has more than 2G physical memory. The maximum memory usage Oracle SES can allocate is 800M.
If your server has more than 2G physical memory, you can manually increase the SGA and PGA memory size.
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Note: Because this task increases the SGA and the PGA to improve cache hit ratio, it should be done by an Oracle Database administrator. |
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See Also: Oracle Database Concepts for more information on Oracle memory architecture |
In the following steps:
%ORACLE_HOME% is the directory where Oracle SES was installed
<SES Password> is the Oracle SES administrator password specified during installation
<SES NAME> is the Oracle SES instance name specified during installation
Open the original initialization parameter file (init.ora.*) file with a text editor. It is in the %ORACLE_HOME%\admin\<SES NAME>\pfile directory. Remember to make a backup of this file.
Find sga_target and pga_aggregate_target, and increase the size of each. For example, increase the SGA to 800M with sga_target=800M.
Specify 30% of physical memory to sga_target and 10% of physical memory to pga_aggregate_target. 1.5G is the limit for sga_target, even if you specify more than 1.5G. Save the modified file.
Start up Oracle SES.
Enter sqlplus in a command prompt to start SQL*Plus.
Enter the following in the SQL*Plus login prompt:
sys/<SES Password> as sysdba
Create a new server parameter file (SPFILE) with the following statement:
SQL> CREATE SPFILE='%ORACLE_HOME%\dbs\SPFILE_NEW.ORA' FROM PFILE='%ORACLE_HOME%\admin\<SES NAME>\pfile\init.ora.*';
Specify a new file name for SPFILE, and specify the modified init.ora.* file for initialization parameter file (pfile).
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See Also: Oracle Database SQL Reference for details on theCREATE SPFILE statement |
Enter exit to quit SQL*Plus.
Shut down Oracle SES.
Make a backup for the original SPFILE: %ORACLE_HOME%\dbs\SPFILE.ORA. Then, rename the newly created %ORACLE_HOME%\dbs\SPFILE_NEW.ORA to SPFILE.ORA.
Start up Oracle SES.
To confirm that your change was applied, launch SQL*Plus with the eqsys/<SES Password> user. Then enter the following:
SQL> show parameter sga_target SQL> show parameter pga_aggregat_target
If Oracle SES cannot start up, then restore the SPFILE.ORA and start Oracle SES again.
The Oracle SES administration tool and default query application are certified on the following browsers:
Firefox 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.0.6, 1.0.7, 1.5
Internet Explorer 6.0
Netscape 7.1, 7.2
Mozilla 1.7.3
The requirements and certifications included in this installation guide were current at the time this guide was published. See the certification matrix on the OracleMetalink Web site for the most up-to-date information.
To uninstall Oracle SES, navigate to Control Panel - Add or Remove Programs, and remove Oracle Secure Enterprise Search.
The tool for starting and stopping the search engine is searchctl. To restart Oracle SES after rebooting, navigate to the $ORACLE_HOME/bin directory where Oracle SES is installed and run searchctl startall.
To become familiar with Oracle Secure Enterprise Search, Oracle suggests that you complete the following tasks:
Follow the Oracle Secure Enterprise Search tutorial:
http://st-curriculum.oracle.com/tutorial/SESAdminTutorial/index.htm
Log in to the Oracle SES administration tool, using the user name and password set in the installation. With the administration tool, you can:
Define sources to search
Configure and schedule the crawling of the sources
Monitor the status and performance of crawling and search
Click the Help link in the top right corner of any page in the administration tool for context-sensitive help.
Read the Oracle Secure Enterprise Search Administrator's Guide.
In a production environment, where a load balancer or other monitoring tools are used to ensure system availability, Oracle SES can also be easily monitored through the following URL: http://<host>:<port>/monitor/check.jsp. The URL should return the following message: Oracle Enterprise Search instance is up.
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Note: This message is not translated to other languages, because system monitoring tools may need to byte-compare this string. |
If Oracle Secure Enterprise Search is not available, then the URL returns either a connection error or the HTTP error code 503.
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