9.3 Before You Begin

Before installing ASR, ensure that the following conditions are met:

• Ensure that you have access to My Oracle Support (http://support.oracle.com) and confirm your contact information is correct and current.

• Make sure that all of your Exalytics machine assets have a contact assigned and that the contact is correct and current.

• Identify and designate a system, outside of Exalytics, to serve as ASR Manager.

• Retrieve the IP address of your ASR Manager.

• Identify and verify ASR assets.

• Ensure connectivity to the Internet using HTTPS.

• Download and install the Oracle Exalytics Configuration Utility patch and ASR utility, on the Exalytics host machine.

  Note:

  Starting with Oracle Exalytics Release 1 Patchset 3 (1.0.0.3), the Oracle Exalytics Configuration Utility patch and the ASR utility are included in the base image.

  Steps 1 through 4 are not applicable for users using Oracle Exalytics Release 1 Patchset 3 (1.0.0.3) or higher version.

  If you are using Oracle Exalytics Release 1 Patchset 3 (1.0.0.3) or higher version, you must start at step 5.

  To download and install the Oracle Exalytics Configuration utility patch and ASR utility, perform the following actions:

  1. Download and install the Oracle Exalytics Configuration Utility patch (1.0.0.4) and ASR utility for Oracle Exalytics Release 1, Patchset 1 (ex_x2-4_config_utils_linux_x86_64.zip file) from the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud Web site at the following link:

     http://edelivery.oracle.com

  2. Unzip the file into a temporary directory.

     The zip file contains the files that are listed in Table 9-1.

     Table 9-1 Files in the Oracle Exalytics Configuration Utility Zip File

     File Name	Notes
     exalytics_configure_network.sh	Oracle Exalytics network configuration script
     SUN-HW-TRAP-MIB.mib	ASR (Auto Service Request) on Oracle Exalytics
     bda_mon_hw_asr.pl	ASR mail script on Oracle Exalytics
     common_subs.pm	ASR on Oracle Exalytics
     setup_asr_ilom.pl	ASR on Oracle Exalytics

  3. Create the following directories:

     • mkdir -p /opt/exalytics

     • mkdir -p /opt/exalytics/asr

  4. Copy the file exalytics_configure_network.sh to /opt/exalytics/bin. Copy the following files to the /opt/exalytics/asr directory:

     • bda_mon_hw_asr.pl

     • setup_asr_ilom.pl

     • common_subs.pm

     • SUN-HW-TRAP-MIB.mib

     Note:

     Before copying the file, ensure that you back up the existing file as exalytics_configure_network.sh_V1 first.

  5. Execute the Oracle Exalytics network configuration script to configure the network interfaces.

     #cd /opt/exalytics/bin

     #./exalytics_configure_network.sh

• Complete the following steps to configure ASR:

  1. Go to the /opt/exalytics/asr directory, and run the following commands to add executive permissions on the two Perl files:

     chmod +x bda_mon_hw_asr.pl

     chmod +x setup_asr_ilom.pl

  2. Add the following line to the /etc/inittab file:

     emh1:345:respawn:/opt/exalytics/asr/bda_mon_hw_asr.pl -server

  3. At the command line, execute the init q command to initialize and start the bda_mon server.

Note:

If it is a Linux 6.6 server, download the patch 21565893 as ASR does not work on Linux 6.6.