2 Planning your installation

This chapter includes the following topics:

• How to use this document

• Preparing the environment for the Empirica Healthcare Analysis installation

• Information to collect before you begin

How to use this document

This document contains the procedures that guide you through the installation process.

Information to collect before you begin

Before you begin, collect the following information about the setup of the database and application servers. You will need this information for the installation.

Database server

• TNSNAMES entry for the database.

• Service name and SID for the database.

• system and sys password for the database.

• Time zone setting of your database so you can set the WebLogic server to the same time zone.

  Oracle recommends using the UTC time zone for both servers.

• The location of the data files for the instance, if you plan to create the tablespaces in the same location. For example:

  /u01/app/oradata/<sid>

Application server

• JDK installation location, such as:

  /usr/java/jdk1.7.x_xx

• The following information about the Oracle client:

  • Oracle base location, such as:

    /u01/app/oracle

  • Oracle home location, such as:

    /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0

• The following information about WebLogic:

  • Installation location, such as:

    /u01/app/oracle/Middleware

  • URL for the WebLogic Administration Console, such as:

    https://<servername>:7002/console

  • URL for Oracle Enterprise Manager, such as:

    https://<servername>:7002/em

  • User name and password of a WebLogic administrator.

• For single sign-on (SSO) installations, the following information:

  • Native login port number to use for initially changing the Empirica Healthcare Analysis admin password.

  • Port number used for normal SSO Empirica Healthcare Analysis connections on the server.

  • SSO logout URL.

  • SSO header, which contains the user name.

Preparing the environment for the Empirica Healthcare Analysis installation

Before installing, make sure that the application and database servers meet the software requirements described in the Empirica Healthcare Analysis Release Notes.

describes how to prepare the application server and install some of the required software:

1. Setting environment variables

2. Installing WebLogic

3. Installing Oracle ADF Runtime

4. Installing RCU and creating repositories

5. Setting up the WebLogic domain:

   1. Creating and configuring the WebLogic domain.

   2. Creating the nodemanager.properties file

   3. Starting WebLogic and the Node Manager

   4. Creating a data source for credential access.

   5. Associating the credential store with the data source.

   6. Restarting the EHCServer managed server