Installation Types

The first step in the installation procedure is to determine the installation type that meets your business requirements. The following are the possible installation types:

• Initial Installation: A base installation, typically used for a production environment.

• Demo Installation: A base installation with pre-populated demo data, typically used for demonstration or training purposes.

• Upgrade Installation: An upgrade installation from V2.3.0.2.0 or V2.5.0.1.1 to V25.4.

See Recommendations for Creating a Production Environment for information about which installation type is appropriate for a production environment.

The following sections describe these installation types in detail.

Initial Installation

This installation type is applicable when installing Oracle Utilities Smart Grid Gateway for the first time or from scratch. For an initial install, you must install all of the following components:

• Database components

Refer to the Initial Install section in Oracle Utilities Smart Grid Gateway Database Administrator’s Guide for more information.

• Application components

• Oracle Utilities Application Framework application

• Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management application

Refer to Installing Oracle Utilities Smart Grid Gateway—Initial Installation for the instructions for installing these components.

Demo Installation

This installation type is applicable when installing a demo application of Oracle Utilities Smart Grid Gateway for demonstration or training purposes. For a demo install, you must install all of the following components:

• Demo Database components

Refer to the Demo Install section in Oracle Utilities Smart Grid Gateway Database Administrator’s Guide for more information.

• Application components

• Oracle Utilities Application Framework application

• Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management application

Refer to Installing Oracle Utilities Smart Grid Gateway—Demo Installation for the instructions for installing these components.

Upgrade Installation

This installation type is applicable when upgrading Oracle Utilities Smart Grid Gateway from V2.3.0.2.0 or V2.5.0.1.1 to V25.4.

Oracle Utilities Smart Grid Gateway 25.4 supports the following upgrade paths:

• From Oracle Utilities Smart Grid Gateway version prior to 2.3.0.2.0 to v25.4, install v2.3.0.2.0 before upgrading to v25.4.

• From Oracle Utilities Smart Grid Gateway v2.4.0.0.0 to v25.4, install v2.5.0.1.1 before upgrading to v25.4.

• From Oracle Utilities Smart Grid Gateway v2.5.0.0.0 to v25.4, install v2.5.0.1.1 before upgrading to v25.4.

For an upgrade installation, you must upgrade all of the following components:

• Database components

Refer to the Upgrade Install section in the Oracle Utilities Smart Grid Gateway Database Administrator’s Guide for more information.

• Application components

• Oracle Utilities Application Framework application

• Oracle Utilities Meter Data Management application

Refer to Installing Oracle Utilities Smart Grid Gateway—Upgrade Installation for instructions to install these components.

Recommendations for Creating a Production Environment

For a production environment, Oracle recommends that you use the Initial Installation installation type as described above.

If there is any custom configuration that needs to be migrated from a development or “gold” environment into production, the migration can be done by using the Configuration Migration Assistant (CMA).

Oracle does not recommend creating a production environment by using the Demo Installation installation type or by cloning an existing Demo installation.