Installing a Global Service Manager

Follow these steps to prepare for and install a Global Service Manager.

Before you begin:

The global service manager is the central component of the Global Data Services framework. You must install the global service manager using separate media. No other Oracle software is required to install and run the global service manager.

You can install the global service manager on a system where you have other Oracle products installed, but you must install the global service manager in a separate Oracle home directory. You can install more than one global service manager on a single system, but each global service manager must have a separate Oracle home directory. For optimal performance, deploy the global service manager on a dedicated host, especially if your Global Data Services configuration includes many databases.

You must install at least one global service manager for each Global Data Services region. Global service managers can be hosted on physical or virtual environments. For high availability, Oracle recommends that you install multiple (typically three) global service managers in each region, and run each on a separate host.

The Global Data Services administrator installs the global service manager. The Global Data Services administrator's responsibilities include:

Administering global service managers
Administering the Global Data Services catalog
Administering regions and database pools

Note:

The Global Data Services administrator must have an operating system user account on all hosts where global service managers are deployed, and you must run the installation under that user account. The installation must not be run by a root user.

Download the global service manager software from edelivery.oracle.com and unzip.

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Start Oracle Universal Installer from the root directory of the software media and follow the prompts.
When the installation completes, the global service manager home directory contains binaries required to run the global service manager and the Global Service Manager Control utility (GDSCTL).
Set the ORACLE_HOME environment variable to the directory you specified during installation.
Add the $ORACLE_HOME/bin directory created for the global service manager to the PATH environment variable.
Set the TNS_ADMIN environment variable to $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin.

Note:

After installing the Global Data Services software, Oracle recommends that you update the installation to the latest Oracle Database release.

Parent topic: Installation and Configuration