5 Installing ACSLS

This chapter describes ACSLS installation in an ACSLS HA Linux configuration.

Topics include:

Installing ACSLS on the First Node

Ensure that /export/home is mounted from both nodes to the NFS file system server while performing the installation and configuration of both ACSLS and ACSLS HA. When you are finished installing and configuring both applications on both nodes, then you must ensure that /export/home has been unmounted from both nodes. ACSLS HA will mount and dismount /export/home as needed during startup and shutdown.

A portion of ACSLS is installed in the /opt/oracle directory and another portion of ACSLS is installed in the /export/home mounted NFS directory. When you install and configure the second node, it will overwrite some of the files in /export/home that were written by node 1. This is acceptable. However, you must change ownership of the /export/home/ACSSS/log/acsdb_install.log file while installing ACSLS on node 2 after running pkg_install, but before running install.sh.

Note:

ACSLS installation will prompt you for the location of your backups. It is critical that you use the /export/home/backup directory that is mounted to the NFS file system.

Refer to the ACSLS Installation Guide and completely install ACSLS 8.5.1, configure and audit the library on the first node. During the installation, you will be instructed to create ACSLS users and groups on each node. You must also create these users and groups on the NFS server.

After installing, configuring and testing ACSLS 8.5.1 on the first node, shut down ACSLS on the first node:

#su – acsss
$acsss shutdown

Note:

Never attempt to start ACSLS on a node if it is already running on the other node. This will corrupt the ACSLS database.

Installing ACSLS on the Adjacent Node

Log in to the second node and begin to install ACSLS according to the instructions provided in the ACSLS Installation Guide.

Important Note - Additional Step for Node 2 Installation:

When installing ACSLS on Node 2, you must first run pkg_install.sh which installs the ACSLS rpm. However, before running the /export/home/ACSSS/install/install.sh script (which completes the installation), you must change ownership on the file /export/home/ACSSS/log/acsdb_install.log to acsdb. To do this, open a new terminal on Node 2 and run the following command with super user permissions:

# chown acsdb /export/home/ACSSS/log/acsdb_install.log

After installing, configuring, and testing ACSLS on both nodes, shut down ACSLS. Leave the /export/home directory mounted to both nodes at this time as it is required for ACSLS HA installation.