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Oracle® Application Server 10g Forms and Reports Services Installation Guide
Release 10g (9.0.4) for Solaris Operating System (SPARC)
Part No. B13949-02
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Preface

Intended Audience
Documentation Accessibility
Structure of This Guide
Related Documents
Conventions

1 Introduction to Oracle Application Server Release 10g (9.0.4.0.1) Forms and Reports Services

1.1 Restrictions with this Installation Type
1.2 Available Features with this Installation Type
1.2.1 Oracle Application Server Forms Services
1.2.2 Oracle Application Server Reports Services
1.2.3 Oracle HTTP Server
1.2.4 Oracle Application Server Web Cache
1.2.5 Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE (OC4J)
1.2.6 Oracle Enterprise Manager
1.2.7 Oracle Process and Management Notification (OPMN)
1.2.8 Distributed Configuration Management (DCM)

2 Installation Overview

3 What is New in the Installation

3.1 Ports
3.1.1 Using Default Port Numbers
3.1.2 Using Custom Port Numbers (the "Static Ports" Feature)
3.1.2.1 Format of the staticports.ini File
3.1.2.2 Error Conditions That Will Cause the Installer to Use Default Ports Instead of Specified Ports
3.1.2.3 Ports for Oracle HTTP Server and OracleAS Web Cache
3.1.2.4 Examples
3.2 Default Port Numbers
3.2.1 Method of Assigning Default Port Numbers
3.2.2 Default Port Numbers
3.3 One ias_admin User Per Oracle Application Server Release 10g (9.0.4.0.1) Forms and Reports Services Instance
3.4 emtab File No Longer Created or Used
3.5 Solaris 2.6 and Solaris 7 No Longer Supported
3.6 New Operating System Patches Required
3.7 Space in /var/tmp No Longer Required During Installation
3.8 /etc/hosts File Does Not Need to Be in a Specific Format (in Most Cases)
3.9 Support for IP Address and Hostname Changes After Installation
3.10 Changed Terminology
3.11 Configuration Assistant Enhancements
3.12 More Prerequisite Checks
3.13 Support for Generating Installation Statistics
3.14 Installation from DVD Now Available

4 Compatibility with Earlier Versions

4.1 Compatibility with Earlier Versions and Release 10g (9.0.4)
4.2 Interoperability Issues and Workarounds
4.2.1 Oracle Enterprise Manager for 9.0.2/9.0.3 and Release 10g (9.0.4.0.1) Uses the Same Port (Port 1810)
4.2.2 dcmctl getState Command from a Forms and Reports Services Instance Cannot Be Used With 9.0.2 or 9.0.3 Instances
4.2.3 Oracle Enterprise Manager: No Rollup Metrics for 9.0.2 Middle Tiers

5 Requirements

5.1 System Requirements
5.1.1 Tips for Reducing Memory Usage
5.2 Operating System Patches
5.3 Operating System Packages
5.4 Kernel Parameters
5.5 Operating System Groups
5.5.1 Create a Group for the Inventory Directory
5.6 Operating System User
5.7 Environment Variables
5.7.1 Environment Variable Tips
5.7.2 ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_SID
5.7.3 PATH, CLASSPATH, and LD_LIBRARY_PATH
5.7.4 DISPLAY
5.7.5 TMP
5.7.6 TNS_ADMIN
5.7.7 REPORTS_DEFAULT_DISPLAY
5.8 Network Topics
5.8.1 Installing on Computers With Multiple Network Cards
5.8.2 Installing on NFS-Mounted Storage
5.8.3 Running Multiple Instances from One Installation
5.8.4 Copying CD-ROMs or DVD to Hard Drive, and Installing from the Hard Drive
5.8.5 Installing from a Remote CD-ROM or DVD Drive
5.8.6 Installing on Remote Computers
5.8.7 Support for NIS and NIS+
5.9 Font Packages for Java
5.10 Prerequisite Checks Performed by the Installer

6 Things You Should Know Before Starting the Installation

6.1 Oracle Home Directory
6.2 First-Time Installation of Any Oracle Product
6.3 Installing Additional Languages
6.4 Oracle Application Server Release 10g (9.0.4.0.1) Forms and Reports Services Instances and Instance Names
6.5 The ias_admin User and Restrictions on its Password
6.6 Where Does the Installer Write Files?
6.7 Why Do I Need to be Able to Log In as Root at Certain Times During Installation?
6.8 Setting the Mount Point for the CD-ROM or DVD
6.9 Starting the Oracle Universal Installer

7 Post-Installation Tasks

7.1 State of Oracle Application Server 10g Forms and Reports Services Instances After Installation
7.2 NFS Installations
7.3 Testing the Forms and Reports Services Installation
7.4 Backup and Recovery
7.5 SSL
7.6 NLS_LANG Environment Variable
7.7 Deployment of Forms and Reports Application

A Troubleshooting

A.1 Verify Requirements
A.2 What to Do If an Installation Error Occurs
A.3 Troubleshoot Configuration Assistants
A.3.1 Configuration Assistant Failure
A.3.2 Failure During Component Configuration and Startup
A.3.3 Fatal Errors
A.3.4 OC4J Instance Configuration Assistant Errors
A.4 Descriptions of Oracle Application Server Release 10g (9.0.4.0.1) Forms and Reports Services Configuration Assistants

B Deinstallation and Reinstallation

B.1 Deinstallation of Release 10g (9.0.4.0.1) Instances
B.2 Reinstallation

C URLs for Components

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