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Installing Oracle WebCenter Interaction Identity Service for LDAP

This section describes the following steps that allow for the successful installation and deployment of Oracle WebCenter Interaction Identity Service for LDAP:

  1. Ensure that you have performed pre-installation procedures. For details, see Completing Pre-Installation Steps.
  2. Grant user and group access rights to Oracle Inventory Directories. For details, see Granting User and Group Access Rights to Oracle Inventory Directories.
  3. Install product files on the remote server host and the Image Service. For details, see Installing Oracle WebCenter Interaction Identity Service for LDAP.
  4. Run a diagnostic test to verify successful installation. For details, see Verifying Deployment.

 


Granting User and Group Access Rights to Oracle Inventory Directories

(Linux/UNIX only) Oracle Inventory contains files that provide the Oracle Universal Installer with the locations of the ORACLE_HOME directories on a particular machine. For Oracle Inventory to function properly, the user that installs Oracle WebCenter Interaction Identity Service for LDAP must have access rights to the directories that contain Oracle Inventory’s files. This section describes how to run the ouais.sh shell script, which sets user and group access rights for these directories.

Note: You do not need to perform this procedure if you are installing Oracle WebCenter Interaction Identity Service for LDAP on Windows.
Note: If you are installing Oracle WebCenter Interaction Identity Service for LDAP on Linux or UNIX operating systems, you do not need to perform this procedure if, as the same user that is installing Oracle WebCenter Interaction Identity Service for LDAP, you have already installed at least one of the following products on the same machine on which you are installing Oracle WebCenter Interaction Identity Service for LDAP:

To grant user and group access rights to Oracle Inventory directories:

  1. Log in to the remote server host computer as the root user.
  2. Copy the ouais.sh script to the machine onto which you will be installing Oracle WebCenter Interaction Identity Service for LDAP.
  3. This script is located in the same location as the Oracle WebCenter Interaction Identity Service for LDAP installer file.

  4. Change the current directory (cd) to be the directory to which you copied the ouais.sh script.
  5. Run the ouais.sh shell script.
  6. As arguments to the script, specify the user and group that will be running the Oracle WebCenter Interaction Identity Service for LDAP installer. For example, you would use the following command to run the ouais.sh script from the root shell:

    ./ouais.sh -u <oracleuser> -g <oraclegroup>
  7. The ouais.sh script creates the Oracle Inventory directory if it did not exist before you ran the script. Additionally, the script grants user and group ownership to the directories that contain the files that are used by Oracle Inventory.

 


Installing Oracle WebCenter Interaction Identity Service for LDAP

Oracle WebCenter Interaction Identity Service for LDAP is implemented as a remote server in the context of the portal deployment; you install the product on a remote server host computer that can communicate with the portal. For host requirements, see Hardware and Software Requirements.

Note: For UNIX and Linux installations: the installer creates a new pthome.xml file in any install location that does not already contain the file. For that reason, you should install Oracle WebCenter Interaction Identity Service for LDAP in the same location as all other Oracle WebCenter components on the machine.
Note: For UNIX and Linux installations: the installation wizard is a graphical application. If you run it interactively, you must do so from an X-windows client. If you are running remotely, for example in an xterm, make sure the DISPLAY environment variable is set correctly.

To install product files:

  1. Log in to the host computer using an administrator account that has access to the portal installation.
  2. Note: For UNIX and Linux installations, you must run the Oracle WebCenter Interaction Identity Service for LDAP installer as the user that you specifed in the procedure Granting User and Group Access Rights to Oracle Inventory Directories. You specified the user who will run the product installer as an argument to the ouais.sh script.
  3. Copy the Oracle WebCenter Interaction Identity Service for LDAP installation package to a location on the remote server host.
  4. To launch the installer, double-click the WebCenterInteractionIdentityServiceForLDAP_10.3.0.0.0 file.
  5. Complete the installation wizard pages as described in the following table.
Note: We recommend that you keep the default settings.
Table 3-1 Installation Wizard Pages
Wizard Page
Values
Introduction
Click Next.
Choose Server Type
Choose Remote Server to install files for Oracle WebCenter Interaction Identity Service for LDAP.
Choose Image Service to install files for the Image Service.
Choose Installation Folder
Click Next to accept the default:
Windows: C:\bea\alui
UNIX and Linux: /opt/bea/alui
Specify Image Service Folder
Specify the location of your Image Service folder.

Note: We recommend using: \ptimages

Application Port
Choose whether to use a secure HTTP protocol for the Web service (https) or a standard Web protocol (http).
Also select your port number. The installer specifies the default port 11950. Make sure to enter the SSL port number if using https.
Pre-Installation Summary
Verify the information in the panel and click Install.
  1. Click Done to exit the installer.
  2. (Windows only) Reboot your computer and start the Oracle WebCenter Interaction Identity Service for LDAP using Administrative Tools | Services.
  3. (UNIX and Linux Only) You must set the PT_HOME environment variable, where PT_HOME is the root directory for installed Oracle WebCenter products, and restart Oracle WebCenter Interaction Identity Service for LDAP before verifying installation:
    1. Open a terminal window.
    2. Type the commands:
    3. source <pt_home>/pthome.sh
      <pt_home>/ptldapaws/10.3.0/bin/ptldapawsd.sh restart

 


Verifying Deployment

After you have deployed the Oracle WebCenter Interaction Identity Service for LDAP package, you can run a diagnostic utility to verify connectivity among deployment components.

To verify your deployment of the Oracle WebCenter Interaction Identity Service for LDAP package:

  1. In a Web browser, open the URL for the remote server diagnostics utility, for example:
  2. http://<remoteserver>:<port>/ldapaws/install/index.html

  3. Complete the steps as described in the utility summary page to verify the correct configuration of deployment components.

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