Installing Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator
This section focuses on the Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator installation for the following:
New Users
Using GUI Based Installer
To install Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator using GUI based installer:
1. Navigate to <TEMPDIR>.
2. Transfer or copy the UTA_25.4_generic.jar file to temp folder on Linux server where Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator has to be installed.
3. On Linux server, navigate to the temp folder created in step 1.
Make sure that the Java version used is Oracle Java 17+.
Example:
export JAVA_HOME=<path of the Oracle JDK 17+>
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
 
4. Execute java -jar <TEMPDIR>\UTA_25.4_generic.jar.
5. On the Oracle Universal Installer Welcome screen, click Next.
On the Installation Location screen, enter the following details:
• Oracle Home: Directory where Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator should be installed.
Note: This directory is referred to in the following sections as <UTA_HOME>.
6. Click Next.
7. On the Java Home and Application Details screen, enter the following details:
• Java Home: Directory where Oracle JDK 17+ is installed.
• Application Server Port: The network port on which the Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator application should run.
• Application Administrator User Name: User name of the user account that would be created with Administrator role for the Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator application.
• Application Administrator User Password: Password for the Application Administrator account with user name as specified above.
• Confirm Application Administrator User Password: Re-type the password specified above.
8. Click Next.
9. On the Application Keystore Details screen, enter the following details:
• Common Name: Fully qualified name of the domain/server
• Organization Unit: Name of the organization unit/department
• Organization Name: Name of the organization
• City: Name of the City
• State: Name of the State
• Country Code (2 characters): 2-character country code
• Keystore Password: Password to user for accessing the keystore.
• Confirm Keystore Password: Re-type the password specified above.
10. Click Next.
11. On the Target Database Connection Details screen, enter the following details:
• Database Host: Fully qualified name of the server where the Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator database is created.
• Database Port: Port on which the database can be accessed.
• Database Service Name: Database service name that can be used to access the Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator database.
• Database Administrator User Name: User name of the database account that has administration rights on the database mentioned above.
• Database Administrator Password: Password for the database administrator account mentioned above.
• Confirm Database Administrator Password: Re-type the password for database administrator account mentioned above.
• Application Database Schema Password: Password for the Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator application schema that is created as part of the installation.
Note: Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator connects to the Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator database using this password. It is recommended to ensure that the password does not expire.
• Confirm Application Database Schema Password: Re-type the Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator schema password mentioned above.
12. Click Next.
13. On the Installation Summary screen, click Install.
14. On the Installation Progress screen, click Next. The Installation Complete screen appears.
15. Click Finish to finish the installation.
This completes the Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator installation process. For details about how to start/stop the server, refer to the Starting/Stopping Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator section.
Important! After starting the application, add the website certificate to the JDK trusted certificates. This has to be done before using some of the application features. Stop the application and restart it for the changes to take effect.
Note: Context path of the application has changed starting Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator V7.0.0.0. The URL for accessing Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator will be:
https://<hostname>:<portNumber>/uta/login.html. (Additional "/uta" is added to the path)
For more information, refer to the Importing Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator Certificates section.
Using Silent (Non-GUI) Based Installer
To install Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator using silent (non-GUI) based installer:
1. Navigate to <TEMPDIR>.
2. Transfer or copy the UTA_25.4_generic.jar file to temp folder on Linux server where Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator has to be installed.
3. On Linux server, navigate to the temp folder created in step 1.
Make sure that the Java version used is Oracle Java 17+.
Example:
export JAVA_HOME=<path of the Oracle JDK 17+>
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
 
4. Edit silentInstallationUTA.rsp file and fill the template with following data. The silentInstallationUTA.rsp file can be found in the TEMPDIR.
• ORACLE_HOME: Location where Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator should be installed.
• JAVA_HOME: Directory where Oracle JDK 17+ is installed.
• APP_PORT: The network port on which the Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator application should run.
• APP_USER: User name of the user account that would be created with Administrator role for the Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator application.
• APP_PASS: Password for the Application Administrator account with user name as specified above.
• APP_PASS_CONFIRM: <same as APP_PASS>
• KEYSTORE_NAME: Fully qualified name of the domain/server
• KEYSTORE_ORG_UNIT: Name of the organization unit/department
• KEYSTORE_ORG_NAME: Name of the organization
• KEYSTORE_CITY: Name of the City
• KEYSTORE_: Name of the State
• KEYSTORE_COUNTRY: 2-character country code
• KEYSTORE_PASS: Password to be used for generating the keystore, should be at least 6 characters. This password will be needed to access the generated keystore.
• KEYSTORE_PASS_CONFIRM: <same as KEYSTORE_PASS>
• UTA_DBSERVER: Fully qualified name of the server where the Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator database is created.
• UTA_DBPORT: Port on which the database can be accessed.
• UTA_DBNAME: Database service name that can be used to access the Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator database
• UTA_DBUSER: User name of the database account that has administration rights on the database mentioned above.
• UTA_PASS: Password for the database administrator account mentioned above
• UTA_PASS_CONFIRM: <same as UTA_PASS>
• UTA_SCHEMA_PASS: Password for the Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator application schema in DB that was created as part of the installation steps.
Note: Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator connects to the Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator database using this password. It is recommended to ensure that the password does not expire.
For more information about schema creation, refer to the Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator Installation and Administration Guide included in this release.
• UTA_SCHEMA_PASS_CONFIRM: <same as UTA_SCHEMA_PASS>
5. Execute java -jar <TEMPDIR>\UTA_25.4_generic.jar -silent -responseFile <path of the response (.rsp) file>.
Example:
java -jar UTA_25.4_generic.jar -silent -responseFile /scratch/UTA_Installer/shiphome/silentInstallationUTA.rsp
 
The progress of installation (along with respective steps) can be viewed on the screen. Once the installation is complete, the command will terminate on its own. This completes the Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator installation process. For details about how to start/stop the server, refer to the Starting/Stopping Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator section.
Important! After starting the application, add the website certificate to the JDK trusted certificates. This has to be done before using some of the application features. Stop the application and restart it for the changes to take effect. For more information, refer to the Importing Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator Certificates section.
Note: Context path of the application has changed starting Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator V7.0.0.0. The URL for accessing Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator will be:
https://<hostname>:<portNumber>/uta/login.html. (Additional “/uta” is added to the path)
Existing Users
Important! Upgrade is applicable only from V6.0.0.1.0 and above to V25.4.
To install Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator V25.4:
1. Navigate to the Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator installation directory.
2. Navigate to the “/inventory/distributions/info/” folder.
3. Modify the contents of all XML files present in the folder.
Example: UTA_6.0.0.X.X.xml
4. Remove the following attribute. Please ignore this step if the attribute is not available.
enable-auto-updates=”false
 
5. Create a backup of the runtimeApplication.properties, application.properties, and uta.properties files present in the current Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator installation directory.
6. Follow the instructions in the New Users section.
7. Replace the new runtimeApplication.properties, application.properties, and uta.properties files in the Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator installation directory, with the files for which backup was created in step 5.
8. Make sure to note the following:
a. Provide the existing Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator V6.0.0.1.x/V6.0.0.2.x/V7.0.0.1.x installation folder as ORACLE_HOME.
b. Overwrite the existing jar folder in the Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator Client folder structure with <TEMPDIR>/Client/runtime/jar created in Extracting the Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator Packages.
Note: Context path of the application has changed starting Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator V7.0.0.1.0. The URL for accessing Oracle Utilities Testing Accelerator will be:
https://<hostname>:<portNumber>/uta/login.html. (Additional “/uta” is added to the path)