Verifying the Installation of Oracle RAC

After you have installed Oracle RAC, verify that the installation is correct. Perform this verification before you attempt to create your Oracle database. This verification does not verify that RAC database instances can be started and stopped automatically.

How to Verify the Installation of Oracle 10g RAC

Confirm that the tests that the Oracle installer runs to verify the cluster were passed.

If the results of these tests are no longer available for review, run the Oracle utility cluvfy to repeat the tests.

For more information, see your Oracle documentation.

How to Verify the Installation of Oracle 9i RAC

1. Confirm that the owner, group, and mode of the $ORACLE_HOME/bin/oracle file are as follows:

   • Owner: oracle

   • Group: dba

   • Mode: -rwsr-s--x

   # ls -l $ORACLE_HOME/bin/oracle

2. Confirm that the binary files for the Oracle listener exist in the $ORACLE_HOME/bin directory.

Next Steps

Go to Creating an Oracle Database.