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Oracle® Database Installation Guide
10
g
Release 1 (10.1) for hp OpenVMS Alpha
Part No. B13681-01
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Preface
Intended Audience
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Terminology
Typographic Conventions
Command Syntax
Related Documentation
Oracle Services and Support
Third-Party Software Notices
1
Installation Overview
1.1
Installation Overview
1.2
Changes and Enhancements
1.2.1
Turning Off the Image Dump
1.2.2
Oracle Database Dependency on ODS-5 Disk Structure
1.2.3
Oracle Database Installation Directory Structure
1.2.4
Unsupported Initialization Parameters
1.2.5
Deprecated Initialization Parameters
1.3
Oracle Database Installation Types
1.4
Database Configuration Options
1.4.1
Database Options
1.4.2
Installation Choices That Affect Database Creation
1.4.3
Creating a Database After Installation
1.5
Overview of DBCA
1.6
Installation Options Available in This Release
1.6.1
Database Storage Options
1.6.2
Database Backup and Recovery Options
1.7
Upgrading from an Earlier Release of Oracle Database
1.7.1
Upgrade Issues
1.8
Important Compatibility Issues
1.9
Installation Considerations
1.9.1
Hardware and Software Certification
1.9.2
Multiple Oracle Homes
1.9.3
Logicals and Symbols
1.9.4
Oracle CSS Daemon
1.10
Cluster File System
2
Preinstallation Tasks
2.1
Checking Hardware Requirements
2.1.1
Minimum Hardware Requirements
2.1.2
Images
2.1.3
Disk Space Requirements
2.2
Checking Network Requirements for RAC
2.2.1
Network Hardware Requirements
2.2.2
IP Address Requirements
2.2.3
Checking Each Node for Network Requirements
2.2.4
Oracle Net Services Linking Options
2.2.5
Networking and System Management Products
2.2.6
Oracle Advanced Security
2.3
Checking Software Requirements
2.4
OpenVMS and Installation-Specific Issues and Restrictions
2.4.1
Reinstalling Oracle Database 10
g
Release 1 (10.1)
2.4.2
New ORA_ROOT
2.4.3
JDK
2.4.4
Devices
2.5
Creating a User Account
2.5.1
Oracle Database DBA Account
2.5.2
Adding a Record in the User Authorization File
2.5.3
Setting Account Privileges
2.5.4
Setting Account Quotas
2.5.5
Process Rights for Database Administrators
2.5.6
Process Rights for SGA Protection
2.5.7
Security Issues with Multiple Databases
2.5.8
Completing Account Setup
2.5.9
Verifying Privileges
2.5.10
Setting Permissions for File Creation
2.6
OpenVMS SYSGEN Parameters
2.6.1
Reserved Memory Registry
2.6.2
AUTOGEN
2.7
OpenVMS System Configuration
2.8
Performing Setup Tasks As the SYSTEM User
2.8.1
Creating an Oracle Software Account
2.8.2
Creating an Apache Server Account
2.9
Performing Setup Tasks As the oracle user
2.9.1
Setting the Display
2.9.2
Setting Up a Batch Queue for the EMAgent and HAS
2.10
Setup Tasks for Oracle Products
2.10.1
Precompilers and Tools
2.10.2
Network and System Management Products
2.11
Identifying Required Software Directories
2.11.1
Oracle Inventory Directory
2.11.2
CRS Home Directory
2.11.3
Oracle Home Directory
2.12
Guidelines for Placing Oracle Recovery Files
2.13
Creating Directories for Oracle Database or Recovery Files
2.14
Stopping Existing Oracle Processes
2.15
Configuring the oracle User's Environment
2.16
Checking the ORATAB file
3
Installation Tasks
3.1
Installation Overview
3.1.1
Reviewing Product-Specific Installation Guidelines
3.2
Downloading Oracle Software from the Oracle Technology Network Web Site
3.2.1
Downloading the Installation Archive Files
3.2.2
Extracting the Installation Files
3.3
Installing Oracle Database Software
3.3.1
Installing Oracle Database from the Hard Drive
3.3.2
Installing Oracle Database from CD-ROM
3.4
Installing Oracle Database Client
3.5
Reviewing the Log of an Installation Session
3.6
Noninteractive Installation and Configuration
3.7
Cleaning Up After a Failed Installation
4
Postinstallation Tasks
4.1
DBCA
4.1.1
Running DBCA in Interactive Mode
4.1.2
Using DBCA Response Files
4.1.3
DBCA Unsupported Options
4.2
Required Postinstallation Tasks
4.2.1
Downloading and Installing Patches
4.2.2
Configuring Oracle Products
4.3
Configuring New or Upgraded Databases
4.4
Changing User Passwords
4.5
Performing Configuration Tasks as the SYSTEM User
4.6
Performing Configuration Tasks as the oracle User
4.7
Required Product-Specific Postinstallation Tasks
4.7.1
Configuring Oracle Net Services Services
4.7.2
Configuring Oracle Label Security
4.7.3
Installing Oracle Text Supplied Knowledge Bases
4.7.4
Configuring Oracle Messaging Gateway
4.7.5
Oracle Precompilers
4.8
Installing Oracle Database 10
g
Products from the Companion CD
5
Installing RAC
5.1
RAC Documentation Overview
5.1.1
Oracle RAC Administrator's Guide
5.1.2
Oracle RAC Deployment and Performance Guide
5.1.3
Documentation Sources
5.2
List of OpenVMS Patches for Oracle Database 10
g
Release 1 (10.1)
5.3
Quota Considerations for Oracle Real Application Clusters
5.4
Cluster Setup and Preinstallation Configuration Tasks
5.5
Preinstallation, Installation, and Postinstallation Overview
5.5.1
Preinstallation Overview
5.5.2
Installation Overview
5.5.3
Postinstallation Overview
5.6
Oracle Universal Installer and Real Application Clusters
5.7
Additional Considerations
5.8
Oracle Database 10
g
and RAC Components
5.8.1
CRS Clusterware
5.8.2
Installed RAC Components
5.9
RAC Version Compatibility
5.10
Installing Cluster Ready Services on OpenVMS
5.10.1
Installation Setup
5.10.2
Installing Cluster Ready Services
5.11
Installation Tasks for RAC on OpenVMS
5.12
Selecting a Database Configuration Type
5.12.1
Configuration Type Descriptions
5.12.2
Action of Oracle Universal Installer, DBCA, and Other Assistants During Installation
5.13
RAC Installation Setup Procedures
5.14
Installation of Oracle Database 10
g
with RAC
5.15
Postinstallation Procedures for RAC
5.15.1
Backing Up the Voting Disk After Installation
5.15.2
Downloading and Installing Patches
5.15.3
Configuring Oracle Products
5.15.4
Verifying Enterprise Manager Operations
5.15.5
Setting Up Users Accounts After Installation
5.16
Uninstalling RAC Software
5.16.1
Procedure for Removing RAC Software
5.16.2
Uninstalling Cluster Ready Services (CRS)
6
Configuring RAC
6.1
Creating Directories
6.1.1
Guidelines for Placing Oracle CRS Files on a File System
6.1.2
Guidelines for Placing Oracle Database Files on a File System
6.1.3
Guidelines for Placing Oracle Database Recovery Files on a File System
6.1.4
Creating Required Directories
6.2
Using DBCA for RAC
6.3
Benefits of Using DBCA
6.4
Real Application Clusters High-Availability Services
6.4.1
Service Configuration and Instance Preferences
6.4.2
Transparent Application Failover Policies
6.5
Creating the Database After Installation By Using DBCA
6.6
Creating a RAC Database By Using DBCA
6.7
Deleting a RAC Database By Using DBCA
6.8
Configuring RAC
6.9
Parameter Files and RAC
6.10
Using Server Parameter Files in RAC
6.10.1
Location of the Server Parameter File
6.11
Parameter File Search Order in RAC
6.12
Upgrading to the Server Parameter File in RAC Environments
6.12.1
Server Parameter File Placement in Real Application Clusters
6.12.2
Procedures for Upgrading to the Server Parameter File
6.13
Server Parameter File Errors in RAC
6.14
Understanding the RAC Installed Configuration
6.14.1
Understanding the Configured Environment in RAC
6.14.2
Oracle Cluster Registry in RAC
6.14.3
OpenVMS oratab Configurations for Real Application Clusters
6.15
Database Components Created Using DBCA
6.15.1
Tablespaces and Data Files
6.15.2
Control Files
6.15.3
Redo Log Files
6.16
Managing Undo Tablespaces in RAC
6.17
Configuring Service Registration-Related Parameters in RAC
6.18
Configuring the Listener File (listener.ora)
6.18.1
Local Listeners
6.18.2
Multiple Listeners
6.18.3
How Oracle Database Uses the Listener (listener.ora)
6.19
Directory Server Access (ldap.ora File)
6.20
Net Service Names (tnsnames.ora File)
6.21
Profile (sqlnet.ora File)
7
Reviewing the Preconfigured Database
7.1
Reviewing Accounts and Passwords
7.2
Unlocking and Resetting User Passwords
7.2.1
Using Grid Control to Unlock Accounts and Reset Passwords
7.2.2
Using SQL*Plus to Unlock Accounts and Reset Passwords
7.3
Identifying Databases
7.4
Locating the Parameter Files
7.4.1
Locating the init.ora File
7.4.2
Locating the Server Parameter File
7.5
Reviewing Tablespaces and Data Files, Redo Log Files, and Control Files
7.5.1
Identifying Tablespaces and Data Files
7.5.2
Locating Redo Log Files
7.5.3
Locating Control Files
7.6
Adding or Upgrading Products
7.6.1
Preparing to Add a Product
7.6.2
Adding a Product Summary
7.7
Relinking the Oracle Code
8
Removing Oracle Software
8.1
Identifying All Instances
8.2
Removing an Oracle Database
8.3
Reconfiguring Oracle Cluster Synchronization Services
8.3.1
Identifying Oracle Database 10
g
Oracle Homes
8.3.2
Reconfiguring the Oracle CSS Daemon
8.3.3
Deleting the Oracle CSS Daemon Configuration
8.4
Removing Oracle Software
A
Oracle Database 64-Bit Feature
A.1
Introduction to Oracle Database 64-Bit Feature
A.1.1
Benefits of Oracle Database 64-Bit Feature
A.1.2
Implementation of Oracle 64-Bit Feature
A.2
Suggested Parameter Settings
A.3
Other Recommendations
B
Noninteractive Installation and Configuration
B.1
Silent Mode Installation
B.1.1
What Is a Response File?
B.1.2
Why Perform a Silent Installation?
B.1.3
Modifying a Response File
B.2
Performing Silent Installation
B.2.1
Creating the oraInst.loc File
B.2.2
Preparing Response Files
B.2.3
Running Oracle Universal Installer Noninteractively
B.3
Running Oracle Universal Installer in Silent Mode or Suppressed Mode
B.4
Running NetCA in Silent Mode
B.5
Running DBCA in Noninteractive or Silent Mode
B.5.1
Using DBCA in Noninteractive Mode
B.5.2
Using DBCA in Silent Mode
B.5.3
Running DBCA in Noninteractive or Silent Mode
C
Oracle Transparent Gateway
C.1
System Requirements for Oracle Transparent Gateway
C.1.1
Rdb Gateway Requirements
C.1.2
RMS Gateway Requirements
C.1.3
Tested Gateway Configurations
C.1.4
Gateway Installation Worksheets
C.2
Installing Oracle Transparent Gateway
C.2.1
Mounting Oracle Transparent Gateway from the CD-ROM or DVD
C.2.2
Installation Prompts for Oracle Transparent Gateway
C.3
Removing Oracle Transparent Gateway
D
RAC: Other Considerations
D.1
Documentation Sources
D.2
Troubleshooting the RAC Installation Process
D.3
Preconversion Considerations
D.3.1
Prerequisites for Conversion
D.3.2
Administrative Considerations
D.4
Converting from Single-Instance to RAC
D.4.1
Single-Instance Database on a Noncluster Computer to RAC
D.4.2
Single-Instance Database on a Cluster to Oracle Database 10
g
RAC
D.5
Postconversion Steps
D.6
OpenVMS Directory Structures for RAC
E
Installing, Configuring, and Running EMAgent
E.1
Introduction to EM Framework
E.2
Installation Requirements
E.3
Installation and Configuration
E.4
Management and Maintenance
E.4.1
Startup, Shutdown, and Status
E.4.2
Troubleshooting and Maintenance
E.5
Supported Targets and Jobs
E.6
Known Limitations
F
Default Port Numbers
F.1
Components and Port Ranges
F.2
Changing the Oracle Enterprise Manager Agent HTTP Port
G
Troubleshooting
G.1
Verifying Requirements
G.2
X Window Display Errors
G.3
Errors During Installation
G.4
Reviewing the Log of an Installation Session
G.5
Troubleshooting Configuration Assistants
G.5.1
Configuration Assistant Failure
G.5.2
Fatal Errors
G.6
Silent Response File Error Handling
G.7
Cleaning Up After a Failed Installation
H
Apache Server Installation/Configuration
H.1
Postinstallation Checklist
H.1.1
Running AUTOGEN
H.1.2
Check Disk Quota
H.1.3
Checking for SET TERMINAL/INQUIRE
H.2
Test the Installation
H.2.1
Browser Test
H.2.2
TELNET Test
H.2.3
Troubleshooting
H.3
Running Oracle HTTP Server on OpenVMS
H.3.1
Starting and Stopping the Server
H.3.2
Server Log File
H.3.3
Customizing the Server Environment
H.3.4
How to Configure Apache
H.3.5
Modules and Directives
H.3.6
Supported and Unsupported Features
H.3.7
File Formats
H.3.8
File Naming Conventions
H.3.9
File Transfer Process and Access Control List
H.3.10
Logical Names
H.3.11
OpenVMS Cluster Considerations
H.3.12
CGI Programs
H.4
Security Information
H.4.1
Process Model
H.4.2
Privileged Images
H.4.3
Privileges Required to Start and Stop the Server
H.4.4
File Ownership and Protection
H.4.5
Server Extensions (CGI Scripts)
H.4.6
suEXEC Not Available for Protecting Script Execution
H.5
Open Source Licenses
H.5.1
Apache
I
Identifying Listener Processes
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