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Starting the Siebel Database Configuration Wizard

Use the following procedure to start the Siebel Database Configuration Wizard. You start the wizard from the command line.

As part of the following procedure, you must enter the necessary command to source one of the following environment setup files, as appropriate, to configure or validate the environment.

• dbenv.csh or dbenv.sh. Before you run the Database Configuration Wizard, you must source either dbenv.csh (for C shell) or dbenv.sh (for Bourne or Korn shell). Before you can source one of these files, you must create them by running the script CreateDbSrvrEnvScript. These environment files are created in the $SIEBSRVR_ROOT installation directory. For more information, see Installing the Siebel Database.

To start the Siebel Database Configuration Wizard

1. Open a shell window.
2. Source an environment setup file, as appropriate:
   • Before you run the Siebel Database Configuration Wizard, source either dbenv.csh (for C shell) or dbenv.sh (for Bourne or Korn shell). For more information, see Installing the Siebel Database.
3. Navigate to the config subdirectory within your $SIEBEL_ROOT directory. For Siebel CRM 17.0:

   Navigate to a directory like the following, on the Siebel Server computer: /Siebel/config.

   To start the Database Configuration Wizard to configure in GUI mode, go to the next step. Use the same commands if you are generating a response file for unattended configuration. To perform an unattended configuration, go to Step 5.

4. Enter a command similar to the following to start the Database Configuration Wizard:

   install_path/config/config -mode dbsrvr

   In this command, install_path is the installation path for the installed Siebel CRM module, such as:

   /Siebel/config/config -mode dbsrvr

   Additional command-line options that you can use are:

   • -skipValidation. Specifies that no validation should be performed of user input. You can use this flag when saving a response file for an unattended configuration, or when previewing wizard screens.
   • -verbose. Specifies that more details should be included in configuration log files.

     NOTE:  Using the -verbose option is recommended in order to log information about certain issues that might affect your configuration tasks. For example, various 32-bit libraries are required for successful configuration. When you use the -verbose option to generate a finer level of granularity in log messages, the Database Configuration Wizard might log, for example, that a particular required 32-bit library is missing. For more information about required libraries, see the Certifications tab on My Oracle Support.

     For an unattended configuration, go to the next step. Otherwise, go to Step 6.

5. For an unattended configuration, you save and later execute a response file for configuring the Siebel database. Do one of the following:
   • If you are generating a response file, then go to Step 6 and continue the configuration process. In the summary screen, choose the option to save a configuration file, then cancel the Database Configuration Wizard. Then, to perform the unattended configuration of the same module, restart the wizard as described in the next paragraph.
   • If you are executing a response file that you saved in a previous configuration session, then start the wizard using the -responseFile option, specifying the name of the response file to execute. Use a command similar to the following:

   install_path/config/config -mode dbsrvr -responseFile file_name

   where:

   • install_path is the installation path for the installed Siebel CRM module (see examples in Step 4)
   • file_name is the name of the response file that you are executing

     NOTE:  For a command like this, the response file would have been saved in a previous configuration session. In unattended mode, wizard screens that would normally display are not displayed, because the applicable data is already stored in the response file.

     If you are generating a response file, then go to the next step. If you are executing a response file, then the Database Configuration Wizard runs in unattended mode and completes configuration.

6. Respond to each prompt in the Database Configuration Wizard, then click Next to go to the next screen or to complete the configuration.

   See Installing the Siebel Database.

   NOTE:  You can click Cancel to exit the Database Configuration Wizard before you complete the configuration.

   After you specify or confirm all of your selections, the summary screen appears.

7. In the summary screen, do one of the following:
   • Click Next again to complete the configuration. Go to the next step.
   • Optionally, save a response file in this screen, to use in an unattended configuration, then click Cancel to exit the Database Configuration Wizard without completing configuration.
8. After configuration is complete, click Exit to exit the Database Configuration Wizard.

   To help you to verify that the configuration completed successfully, the log file is referenced at the end of the configuration task.