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 Check Hardware
Requirements
Minimal Memory: 256 MB
Minimal Swap Space: Twice the amount of the RAM
To determine the amount of RAM memory installed on your system, enter the
following command.
$ /usr/sbin/prtconf
To determine the amount of SWAP installed on your system, enter the
following command and multiply the BLOCKS column by 512.
Use the latest kernel patch from Sun Microsystems (http://sunsolve.sun.com)
Operating System
Software Requirements
Use the latest kernel patch from Sun Microsystems. Solaris 2.6 requires
at least kernel jumbo patch revision #105181-15 for successful
installation of Release 2 (8.1.7).
- Download the Patch from: http://sunsolve.sun.com
- Read the README File included in the Patch
- Usually the only thing you have to do is:
$ cd <patch cluster directory>
$
./install_custer
$ cat /var/sadm/install_data/<luster
name>_log
$ showrev -p
Reboot the system
To determine your current operating system information:
$ uname -a
To determine which operating system patches are installed:
$ showrev -p
To determine which operating system packages are installed:
$ pkginfo -i [package_name]
To determine if your X-windows system is working properly on your local
system, but you can redirect the X-windows output to another system.
$ xclock
To determine if you are using the correct system executables:
$ /usr/bin/which make
$ /usr/bin/which ar
$ /usr/bin/which ld
$ /usr/bin/which nm
Each of the four commands above should point to the
/usr/ccs/bin directory. If not, add /usr/ccs/bin
to the beginning of the PATH environment variable in the current shell.
Java Runtime
Environment (JRE)
The JRE shipped with Oracle8i is used by Oracle Java applications such as
the Oracle Universal Installer is the only one supported. You should not modify this JRE,
unless it is done through a patch provided by Oracle Support Services. The inventory can
contain multiple versions of the JRE, each of which can be used by one or more products or
releases. The Installer creates the oraInventory directory the first time it is
run to keep an inventory of products that it installs on your system as well as other
installation information. The location of oraInventory is defined in
/var/opt/oracle/oraInst.loc. Products in an ORACLE_HOME access the JRE through a
symbolic link in $ORACLE_HOME/JRE to the actual location of a JRE within
the inventory. You should not modify the symbolic link.
The Solaris 2.6 following patches are required or recommended for JRE
1.1.8_10
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Patch ID
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Description
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Required or Recommended?
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106040-11
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X Input and Output Method patch
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Required (OK)
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105181-15
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Kernel patch
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Required (OK)
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105284-25
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Motif Runtime Library Patch
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Recommended (OK)
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105490-07
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Dynamic linker patch
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Recommended (OK)
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105633-21
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OpenWindows 3.6: Xsun patch (1)
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Recommended (OK)
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105568-13
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Libthread patch
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Recommended (OK)
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105210-19
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LibC patch
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Recommended (OK)
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105669-07
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CDE 1.2: libDTSvc patch (dtmail)
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Recommended (OK)
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107636-01
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X Input and Output Method patch
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Required
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106980-05
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Libthread patch
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Recommended
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107607-01
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Motif fontlist, fontset, libxm
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Recommended
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107078-10
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Open Windows 3.6.1 Xsun patch (1)
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Recommended
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Check Software
Limits
Oracle8i Release 3 (8.1.7) includes native
support for files greater than 2 GB. Check your shell to determine whether it will impose a
limit.
To check current soft shell limits, enter the following command:
$ ulimit -Sa
To check maximum hard limits, enter the following command:
$ ulimit -Ha
The file (blocks) value should be multiplied by 512 to obtain the maximum
file size imposed by the shell. A value of unlimited is the operating system default and is
the maximum value of 1 TB.
Setup the Solaris
Kernel
Set to the sum of the PROCESSES parameter for each Oracle
database, adding the largest one twice, then add an additional 10 for each database. For
example, consider a system that has three Oracle instances with the PROCESSES parameter in
their initsid.ora files set to the following values:
ORACLE_SID=DIA1, PROCESSES=100
ORACLE_SID=DIA2, PROCESSES=100
ORACLE_SID=DIA3, PROCESSES=200
The value of SEMMNS is calculated as follows:
SEMMNS = [(A=100) + (B=100)] + [(C=200) * 2] + [(# of
instances=3) * 10] = 630
Setting parameters too high for the operating system can
prevent the machine from booting up. Refer to Sun Microsystems Sun SPARC Solaris system
administration documentation for parameter limits.
*
* Kernel Parameters on our SUN Enterprise with 640MB for Oracle 8.1.x
*
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=4294967295
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmin=1
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmni=100
set shmsys:shminfo_shmseg=10
set semsys:seminfo_semmni=100
set semsys:seminfo_semmsl=100
set semsys:seminfo_semmns=2500
set semsys:seminfo_semopm=100
set semsys:seminfo_semvmx=32767
Create Unix Group
«dba»
$ groupadd -g 400 dba
$ groupdel dba
Create Unix User
«oracle»
$ useradd -u 400 -c "Oracle Owner" -d /export/home/oracle \
-g "dba" -m -s /bin/ksh oracle
Setup ORACLE
environment ($HOME/.profile) as follows
# Setup ORACLE environment
ORACLE_HOME=/opt/oracle/product/8.1.7; export ORACLE_HOME
ORACLE_SID=DIA2; export ORACLE_SID
ORACLE_TERM=xterm; export ORACLE_TERM
TNS_ADMIN=/export/home/oracle/config/8.1.7; export TNS_ADMIN
NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.UTF8; export NLS_LANG
ORA_NLS33=$ORACLE_HOME/ocommon/nls/admin/data; export ORA_NLS33
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib:/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/openwin/lib
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/dt/lib:/usr/ucblib:/usr/local/lib
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
# Set up the search paths:
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/opt/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/opt/local/GNU/bin
PATH=$PATH:/opt/local/bin:/opt/NSCPnav/bin:$ORACLE_HOME/bin
PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/samba/bin:/usr/ucb:.
export PATH
# CLASSPATH must include the following JRE location(s):
CLASSPATH=$ORACLE_HOME/JRE:$ORACLE_HOME/jlib:$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/jlib
CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$ORACLE_HOME/network/jlib
Install from
CD-ROM
Usually the CD-ROM will be mounted automatically by the Solaris Volume
Manager, if not, do it as follows as user root.
$ su root
$ mkdir /cdrom
$ mount -r -F hsfs /dev/.... /cdrom
exit or CTRL-D
Check oraInst.loc File
If you used Oracle 8.1.x before on your system, then you must edit the
Oracle Inventory File, usually located in:
/var/opt/oracle/oraInst.loc
inventory_loc=/opt/oracle/product/8.1.7/oraInventory
Install with
Installer
Install Oracle 8i with customized Response File: svrtypical.rsp as User
«oracle». We suggest to start runInstaller in the foreground, therefore remove
the "&" from runInstaller at the end of the file.
$ cd /cdrom/oracle8i
$ DISPLAY=<Any X-Window Host>:0.0
$ export DISPLAY
$ ./runInstaller
A configuration script needs to be run as root before installation can
proceed. Please leave this window up, go run /opt/oracle/product/8.1.7/root.sh as root from
another window, then come back here and click OK to continue.The installation of Oracle8i
Enterprise Edition was successful.
Start root.sh as
«root»
Start the script root.sh as User «root». Note that the File
/var/opt/oracle/oratab is not used in the High Availabilty Environment.
$ su root
$ cd $ORACLE_HOME
$ ./root.sh
Setup
Listener for Oracle8.1.7
Create the necessary log- and config directories. Set ORACLE_HOME to the
new location. Setup the Net8 Files: listener.ora, tnsnames.ora and sqlnet.ora.
$ cd $ORACLE_HOME
$ mkdir sqlnet
$ cd sqlnet
$ mkdir config log
$ cd config
Start / Stop and
check the listener
It is very important that the listener works correctly.
$ lsnrctl
LSNRCTL> start LSNRDIA2
LSNRCTL> service LSNRDIA2
Check that listener starts without an error, check that listener is
running.
$ ps -ef | grep tns
Install current
patches
Download patchsets from:
ftp://oracle-ftp.oracle.com/server/patchsets/unix/SUN_SOLARIS2/81patchsets
Read the patch_note.htm file to install the patch.
Create the
Database
Edit and save the CREATE DATABASE File initDIA2.sql in $ORACLE_HOME/dbs,
or create a symbolic-Link from $ORACLE_HOME/dbs to your Location.
initDIA2.ora ->
/export/home/oracle/config/8.1.7/initDIA2.ora
$ svrmgrl
SVRMGR> @initDIA2.sql
Check the Logfile, then stop and start the Database
$ svrmgrl
SVRMGR> @shutdown immediate
SVRMGR> startup
Create own
DB-Create Script (optional)
You can generate your own DB-Create Script using the Tool:
$ORACLE_HOME/bin/dbassist.
To start the Database automatically on Boot-Time, create or use our
Startup Scripts dbora and lsnrora (included in ALL_FILES.tar.gz), which must be installed
in /etc/init.d. Create symbolic Links from the Startup Directories in /etc (e.g.
/etc/rc2.d).
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root S99dbora -> ../init.d/dbora
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root S99lsnrora -> ../init.d/lsnrora
Download Scripts
for Sun Solaris
These Scripts can be used as Templates. Please note, that some Parameters
like ORACLE_HOME, ORACLE_SID and PATH must be adjusted on your own Environment. Besides
this, you should check the initSID.ora Parameters for your Database (Size, Archivelog,
...)
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