If you do not have direct access to the server that will host the Core Server and database, or if the server does not have a CD drive, use the tarball installation CDs and copy the files over the network. These instructions cover installing both the database and the Core Server.
A tarball installation has the following prerequisites:
The server must have 1 GB of free disk space for the installation files.
The installation program will compile some needed files. The Linux system must have the C/C++ Compiler and Tools installed (specifically, libAio_devel and glibc_devel), and the Oracle user (created below) must have execute permission on /usr/bin/gcc.
To install the Application Configuration Console database on a Linux Server, you must create a new user and group, and then open two sessions to run some scripts, one as the new user and one as root.
Log in to the Linux server as a user who has permissions to create groups and users.
Create a dba group. If you are using the command line:
groupadd dba
Create an Oracle user as a member of the dba group and specify the directory that you want to use for ORACLE_HOME as the user's home directory, for example:
useradd –g dba –d /opt/mvOracle oracle
Create an installation directory, such as /tmp/mvinstall.
Copy the four tarballs from the two CDs to the install directory.
Extract the tar files with tar -xzvf. You should end up with two directories: mvOracleInstall and mvalent3.
Open a new shell and become the Oracle user.
cd to /tmp/mvinstall/mvOracleInstall.
Run ./install.sh, running the root scripts from the root shell. You can safely ignore any warning messages about setting permissions on /home/oracle/network/agent/html.
When the installation completes, restart the server and then as root test /etc/init.d/oracle stop/start.
chmod the /tmp/mvinstall/mvalent3 directory to 777.
Login again as Oracle (to load the correct profile and variables).
cd to /tmp/mvinstall/mvalent3.
Unzip the db_setup.zip file.
cd to the unzipped db/scripts directory.
Set up the database with this command:
$ sqlplus /nolog @setup_db.sql
Exit out of the Oracle shell when the database setup is complete.
Open a shell as the Application Configuration Console user.
cd to /tmp/mvinstall/mvalent3.
Run the Core Server installation program using the following command (see Section 4.3, "Install the Application Configuration Console Server," for details on the installation):
$ server/ApplicationConfigurationConsoleServer.bin
After the Server installation is complete, login/su as root and copy the tomcat_init script from /tmp/oaccinstall/mvalent3/extras/tomcat_init to /etc/init.d/tomcat, then chmod 755 the script.
Edit /etc/init.d/tomcat, setting tomcat_home and tomcat_user correctly.
As root, do a chkconfig --add tomcat.