A.1 Installing Oracle Trace File Analyzer

Understand the options that you can supply to the Oracle Trace File Analyzer installer script to customize the installation.

Without parameters the Oracle Trace File Analyzer installation script will take you through an interview process for installation.

The Oracle Trace File Analyzer installation script appends /tfa to -tfabase if it is not already there.

The Oracle Trace File Analyzer installation script writes the log to the /tmp/tfa_install_timestamp.log file, for example, /tmp/tfa_install_9263_2018_09_25-07_55_52.log.

Syntax

installTFA-platform [[-local][-deferdiscovery][-tfabase install dir][-javahome path to JRE][-silent]|-extractto extract dir|-responsefile response file|-noorachk]

Parameters

Table A-1 installTFA-<platform> Command Parameters

Parameter	Description
-local	Installs only on the local node.
-deferdiscovery	Discovers Oracle trace directories after installation completes.
-tfabase	Installs in the directory specified.
-javahome	Use this directory for the JRE. Do not use this option along with the -extractto option.
-silent	Use this option to not to ask any install questions.
-extractto	Extracts Oracle Trace File Analyzer into the directory specified (non-daemon mode).
-tmploc	Extracts the install archive into the temporary directory location specified (must exist).
-debug	Displays debug tracing and does not remove TFA_HOME on install failure.
-perlhome	Specify the custom location for Perl binaries.
-responsefile	Specify the response file to use to drive Oracle Trace File Analyzer setup parameters.
-noorachk	Specify the skip Oracle ORAchk autostart.