About the Installation Software

You use the following utilities to install the Recovery Appliance software:

• ra_preinstall.pl: Performs initial checks and prepares the Recovery Appliance for new installations and upgrades. See Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance Upgrade and Patching (Doc ID KB212582) for more information.

• install.sh: Uses the files generated by Oracle Exadata Deployment Assistant to configure the networks, Oracle Database, and other software components.

  The OneCommand ZIP file that contains Oracle Exadata Deployment Assistant for use in Using Oracle Exadata Deployment Assistant also contains this script. You can run this script from any system on the same network as Recovery Appliance. Some platforms use install.cmd.

• The OneCommand ZIP file that contains Oracle Exadata Deployment Assistant for use in Using Oracle Exadata Deployment Assistant also contains this script. You can run this script from any system on the same network as Recovery Appliance. Some platforms use install.cmd.

• racli install appliance: Installs the Recovery Appliance software. You must run racli while logged in to a Recovery Appliance compute server, and not from another server on the same network.

Note: Whenever the deployment configuration file is modified such as through a re-import and re-generation of XML, run ra_preinstall.pl again before running install.sh.