Supplying input to the clone.pl script on the command line

If you do not have a shared Oracle Grid Infrastructure home, navigate to the Grid_home/clone/bin directory on each destination node and run the clone.pl script, which performs the main Oracle Clusterware cloning tasks. To run the script, you must supply input to several parameters. Table 8-1 describes the clone.pl script parameters.

Table 8-1 Parameters for the clone.pl Script

Parameters	Description
ORACLE_BASE=ORACLE_BASE	The complete path to the Oracle base to be cloned. If you specify an invalid path, then the script exits. This parameter is required.
ORACLE_HOME=GRID_HOME	The complete path to the Oracle Grid Infrastructure home for cloning. If you specify an invalid path, then the script exits. This parameter is required.
[ORACLE_HOME_NAME= Oracle_home_name \| -defaultHomeName]	The Oracle home name of the home to be cloned. Optionally, you can specify the `-defaultHomeName` flag. This parameter is required.
[ORACLE_HOME_USER= Oracle_home_user_name]	The Oracle home user on Windows. Oracle recommends that you pass this parameter for Oracle Database software cloning. This parameter is optional.
INVENTORY_LOCATION= location_of_inventory	The location for the Oracle Inventory.
OSDBA_GROUP= OSDBA_privileged_group	Specify the operating system group you want to use as the OSDBA privileged group. This parameter is optional if you do not want the default value.
"CLUSTER_ NODES={node_ name,node_ name,...}"	A comma-delimited (with no spaces) list of short node names for the nodes that are included in this new cluster. The following only apply if you are cloning database homes: If you run `clone.pl` on a Hub Node in an Oracle Flex Cluster configuration, then this list must include all the Hub Nodes in the cluster. If you run `clone.pl` on a Leaf Node in an Oracle Flex Cluster configuration, then you must specify only the local host name.
"LOCAL_NODE=node_name"	The short node name for the node on which `clone.pl` is running.
CRS=TRUE	This parameter is necessary to set this property on the Oracle Universal Installer inventory.
OSASM_GROUP= OSASM_privileged_group	Specify the operating system group you want to use as the OSASM privileged group. This parameter is optional if you do not want the default value.
OSOPER_GROUP= OSOPER_privileged_group	Specify the operating system group you want to use as the OSOPER privileged group. This parameter is optional if you do not want the default value.
-debug	Specify this option to run the `clone.pl` script in debug mode.
-help	Specify this option to obtain help for the `clone.pl` script.

For example, on Linux and UNIX systems:

$ perl clone.pl -silent ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle ORACLE_HOME=
/u01/app/12.1/grid ORACLE_HOME_NAME=OraHome1Grid
INVENTORY_LOCATION=/u01/app/oraInventory LOCAL_NODE=node1 CRS=TRUE

On Windows systems:

C:\>perl clone.pl ORACLE_BASE=D:\u01\app\grid ORACLE_HOME=D:\u01\app\grid\12.1
ORACLE_HOME_NAME=OraHome1Grid ORACLE_HOME_USER=Oracle_home_user_name
"LOCAL_NODE=node1" "CLUSTER_NODES={node1,node2}" CRS=TRUE

For Windows platforms, on all other nodes, run the same command with an additional argument: PERFORM_PARTITION_TASKS=FALSE.

For example:

C:\>perl clone.pl ORACLE_BASE=D:\u01\app\grid ORACLE_HOME=D:\u01\app\grid\12.1
ORACLE_HOME_NAME=OraHome1Grid ORACLE_HOME_USER=Oracle_home_user_name 
"LOCAL_NODE=node1" "CLUSTER_NODES={node1,node2}" CRS=TRUE PERFORM_PARTITION_TASKS=FALSE

Refer to Table 8-1 for descriptions of the various parameters in the preceding examples.

If you have a shared Oracle Grid Infrastructure home, then append the -cfs option to the command example in this step and provide a complete path location for the cluster file system.