Using Oracle Universal Installer to Install Oracle RAC

Perform the following procedures to install the Oracle Database software with Oracle RAC using Oracle Universal Installer (OUI):

1. Ensure that you can access other nodes with SSH. OUI requires that the user account running the Oracle RAC installation is permitted to set up passwordless SSH. OUI can set this up for you automatically, or your system administrator can set this up for you before installation is started.

2. Open the terminal from which you intend to run OUI, and log in as the user account that you want to own the Oracle Database installation (for example, oracle).

If you are not able to turn off stty commands, or have other restrictions that would prevent automatic SSH configuration from within OUI, then you must ensure that SSH is configured and enabled before you proceed to start the Installer.

3. Ensure that you have su or sudo credentials, as you will be prompted to run a script as the root user during installation.

4. Start the runInstaller command from the Disk1 on the Oracle Database 11g release 2 (11.2) installation media or install binary download area. For example, where the software binary download area is /home/oracle/oraclesw, enter the following commands:

$ cd /home/oracle/oraclesw/Disk1

$ ./runInstaller

See Also: Oracle Database Globalization Support Guide for additional information about updates to the Oracle Database language and territory definition files

See Also: Oracle Database Globalization Support Guide

Using Oracle Universal Installer to Install Oracle RAC

5. Provide information or run scripts as root when prompted by OUI. If you need assistance during installation, click Help. Click Details to see the log file.

If you encounter problems during installation, then examine the OUI actions recorded in the installation log file. The log file is located in the Oracle Inventory directory in the following location:

OraInventory/logs/installActionsdate_time.log

When you have completed the second and final phase of the installation, proceed to Chapter 4, "Oracle Real Application Clusters Postinstallation Procedures" to perform the postinstallation tasks.

The following is a list of additional information to note about installation:

■ On the Select Database Management Option page, if you have already completed the Grid Control Management Agent installation, then you can select either Grid or Local Database control. Otherwise, only Local Database control for database management is supported for Oracle RAC. When you use the local Database Control, you can choose the e-mail option and enter the outgoing SMTP server name and e-mail address.

Note: You must run the root.sh script on the first node and wait for it to finish. You can run root.sh scripts concurrently on all other nodes except for the last node on which you run the script. Like the first node, the root.sh script on the last node must be run separately.

Caution: The Oracle home name and path that you provide during database installation must be different from the home that you used during the Oracle grid infrastructure installation in phase one. You must not install Oracle Database 11g with Oracle RAC software into the same home in which you installed the Oracle grid infrastructure for a cluster software.

If you are upgrading a database, then you must use the same type of Oracle home. For example, you should not change from local Oracle homes to a shared Oracle home.

Note that because Oracle ASM is part of the Oracle grid infrastructure home, it cannot be upgraded during an Oracle RAC installation.

Caution: After installation is completed and you have created the database, if you decide that you want to install additional Oracle Database 11g release 2 (11.2) products in the database, then you must stop all processes running in the Oracle home before you attempt to install the additional products. For the Oracle Universal Installer to relink certain executables and libraries, all database processes must be stopped. Refer to Appendix E, "How to Stop Processes in an Existing Oracle Real Application Clusters Database"

for additional information.

Using Oracle Universal Installer to Install Oracle RAC

Installing Oracle Database 11g with Oracle Real Application Clusters 2-11 If you perform an installation that does not include Oracle Enterprise Manager (for example, a custom software install without Oracle Enterprise Manager, an installation with no Oracle Enterprise Manager configuration, or a database creation with your own scripts), then you can configure Oracle Enterprise

Manager later using OUI, DBCA, or the Oracle Enterprise Manager Configuration Assistant (EMCA) utility.

Using Oracle Universal Installer to Install Oracle RAC

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Creating Oracle Real Application Clusters Databases with Database Configuration Assistant 3-1

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Creating Oracle Real Application Clusters Databases with Database Configuration Assistant

This chapter describes how to use Database Configuration Assistant (DBCA) in standalone mode to create and delete Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) databases. The topics in this chapter include the following:

■ Using Database Configuration Assistant with Oracle RAC

■ Benefits of Using Database Configuration Assistant

■ Automatic Listener Migration from Earlier Releases

■ Setting Environment Variables for Enterprise Manager DB Control

■ Verifying Requirements for DBCA

■ Creating an Oracle RAC Database with DBCA

■ Deleting an Oracle RAC Database with DBCA

■ Configuring Database Control During and After Installation