1 Prerequisites

This chapter describes the basic steps you must complete to prepare your network and host computers for deployment, such as provisioning host computers, granting user and group rights, and creating a Oracle WebCenter Collaboration database.

1. If you are upgrading, ensure you are running Oracle WebCenter Collaboration 10.3 or 10.3.0.1.

   You can upgrade only from versions 10.3 or 10.3.0.1. If you are running an older version, you must first upgrade to 10.3 before following the instructions in this guide. For instructions on upgrading to 10.3, see documentation available in the Oracle WebCenter Collaboration 10g Release 3 (10.3) documentation set.

2. Download the most up-to-date documentation from the Oracle Technology Network in the Oracle WebCenter Collaboration 10g Release 4 (10.3.3.0.0) documentation set.

3. Read the release notes for additional information on compatibility issues, known problems, and workarounds that might affect how you proceed with your deployment.

4. Provision host computers for your deployment and install prerequisite software. For details, see Software Requirements.

5. (Linux/UNIX only) Grant user and group access rights to Oracle Inventory directories. For details, see Granting User and Group Access Rights to Oracle Inventory Directories.

6. If you are installing Oracle WebCenter Collaboration for the first time, create the Oracle WebCenter Collaboration database. For details, see Creating the Oracle WebCenter Collaboration Database.

7. Enable firewall access on port 28282. For more information, see the Oracle Fusion Middleware Deployment Planning Guide for Oracle WebCenter Interaction.

Software Requirements

For the latest information on supported operating systems, application servers, databases, and browsers, see the Oracle WebCenter Interaction page at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/webcenter-interaction/index.html, open the Oracle WebCenter Interaction 10g Release 4 Certification Matrix spreadsheet, and refer to the WebCenter Collaboration 10.3.3 worksheet.

For more information on recommended configurations based on the size of your implementation, see the section about provisioning computers in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Deployment Planning Guide for Oracle WebCenter Interaction.

For client requirements for using Oracle WebCenter Collaboration's Bulk Upload feature, see Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle WebCenter Collaboration.

Caution:

IPv6 is not supported. You should verify that IPv6 is not enabled before upgrading this product.

Granting User and Group Access Rights to Oracle Inventory Directories

(Linux/UNIX only) Oracle Inventory contains files that provide the Oracle Universal Installer with the locations of the ORACLE_HOME directories on a particular machine. For Oracle Inventory to function properly, the user that installs Oracle WebCenter Collaboration must have access rights to the directories that contain Oracle Inventory's files. This section describes how to run the ouais.sh shell script, which sets user and group access rights for these directories.

Note:

You do not must perform this procedure if you are installing Oracle WebCenter Collaboration on Windows.

If you are installing Oracle WebCenter Collaboration on Linux or UNIX operating systems, you do not must perform this procedure if, as the same user that is installing Oracle WebCenter Collaboration, you have already installed at least one of the following products on the same machine on which you are installing Oracle WebCenter Collaboration:

• Oracle WebCenter Interaction 10.3.3

• Oracle WebCenter Analytics 10.3

• Oracle WebCenter Ensemble 10.3

To grant user and group access rights to Oracle Inventory directories:

1. Log in to the remote server host computer as the root user.

2. Copy the ouais.sh script to the machine onto which you will be installing Oracle WebCenter Collaboration.

   This script is located in the same location as the Oracle WebCenter Collaboration installer file.

3. Change the current directory (cd) be the directory to which you copied the ouais.sh script.

4. Run the ouais.sh shell script.

   As arguments to the script, specify the user and group that will be running the Oracle WebCenter Collaboration installer. For example, you would use the following command to run the ouais.sh script from the root shell:

   ./ouais.sh -u <oracleuser> -g <oraclegroup>

   The ouais.sh script creates the Oracle Inventory directory if it did not exist before you ran the script. Additionally, the script grants user and group ownership to the directories that contain the files that are used by Oracle Inventory.

Creating the Oracle WebCenter Collaboration Database

This section describes how to create and configure the database used by Oracle WebCenter Collaboration. It is expected that the person setting up the Oracle WebCenter Collaboration database has a strong understanding of database system administration.

Note:

The Oracle WebCenter Collaboration and portal databases must be the same vendor and version and they must reside on the same physical machine.

To set up the Oracle WebCenter Collaboration database, follow the steps in the subsection appropriate to your environment:

• To set up the Oracle WebCenter Collaboration database on Microsoft SQL Server, see Creating and Configuring the Oracle WebCenter Collaboration Database on Microsoft SQL Server.

• To set up the Oracle WebCenter Collaboration database on Oracle, see Configuring a DB2 Database for Oracle WebCenter Collaboration.

• To set up the Oracle WebCenter Collaboration database on DB2, see Configuring a DB2 Database for Oracle WebCenter Collaboration.

Creating and Configuring the Oracle WebCenter Collaboration Database on Microsoft SQL Server

This section describes how to create and configure the Oracle WebCenter Collaboration database on Microsoft SQL Server.

To set up the Oracle WebCenter Collaboration database on Microsoft SQL Server:

1. Configure the SQL Server instance to use SQL Server and Windows Authentication mode.

2. Create the Oracle WebCenter Collaboration database:

   1. Set the Oracle WebCenter Collaboration database name to the name, and note it.

   2. Verify that the initial size of the Oracle WebCenter Collaboration database is sufficient for your Oracle WebCenter Collaboration deployment. For a relatively small installation, configure a database that is at least 100 MB. For a large enterprise with as many as 20,000 users, configure a database that is as large as 1 GB.

3. Create the Oracle WebCenter Collaboration database user login:

   1. Create the Oracle WebCenter Collaboration database user login, and note it.

   2. Configure the Oracle WebCenter Collaboration database user login to use SQL Server Authentication.

   3. Set the Oracle WebCenter Collaboration database user login password, and note it.

   4. Set the Oracle WebCenter Collaboration database user login's default database to the Oracle WebCenter Collaboration database.

   5. Grant the Oracle WebCenter Collaboration database user login the db_owner role for the Oracle WebCenter Collaboration database.

4. Create a schema for the Oracle WebCenter Collaboration database with the schema name, and note it. This name must be the same as the Oracle WebCenter Collaboration database user name.

5. In the Oracle WebCenter Collaboration database user's login properties, navigate to the User Mapping page.

6. Set the default schema of the Oracle WebCenter Collaboration database user login to the new schema of the same name.

Configuring an Oracle Database for Oracle WebCenter Collaboration

Oracle WebCenter Collaboration does not use its own Oracle database. Instead, the Oracle WebCenter Collaboration schema is added to the existing Oracle database that contains the portal schema.

Before installing Oracle WebCenter Collaboration verify that you have a correctly installed and configured the portal database. Confirm that the open_cursors parameter in the Oracle initialization file is set to greater than 1000. This parameter should have been set correctly during the portal database set up.

Configuring a DB2 Database for Oracle WebCenter Collaboration

Oracle WebCenter Collaboration does not use its own DB2 database. Instead, the Oracle WebCenter Collaboration schema is added to the existing DB2 database that contains the portal schema.

Before installing Oracle WebCenter Collaboration:

• Ensure that the data for the Oracle WebCenter Interaction and ALUI Directory applications is stored in distinct schemas on the same DB2 database.

• Create a distinct schema for the Oracle WebCenter Collaboration database on the same DB2 database that contains the schemas for the Oracle WebCenter Interaction and ALUI Directory applications.