INSTALLATION OF ORACLE10g

INSTALLATION OF ORACLE10g.................................................................1
Certification.........................................................................................................................2
Interoperability Patch...........................................................................................................2
Hardware Requirements.......................................................................................................2
Software Requirements........................................................................................................2
Disk Space Requirements....................................................................................................3
Staging Software..................................................................................................................3
Steps to be performed as Root user......................................................................................3
Setting up kernel parameters................................................................................................3
Steps to be performed as an oracle user...............................................................................4
Installation............................................................................................................................5
Obervations after installation...............................................................................................5

Document Prepared by: Nikhil Rangaraju

Oracle NAIO
Certification

Go to metalink.oracle.com and click on Certify tab and check the certification of

oracle10g with redhat linux AS release3.

Interoperability Patch

As any oracle software requires Operating system interoperability patch to be installed to

be compatible.
So download and instal the following interoperability patch from metalink.oracle.com.
Click on patches tab
Select simple search and search for p3006854_9204_LINUX.zip patch
Download the patch and install it as a root user.

Hardware Requirements

Check that operating system should meet the following hardware requirements.

RAM size----It should be minimum 512MB

Command to check: grep MemTotal /proc/meminfo

Swap size-----It should be half the RAM size

Command to check: top

Software Requirements

See that all precompilers and packages are installed in machine.

Follwing are some of the packages necessary for 10g installation.

Command to check: rpm –qa <packagename>

Packages List:
make-3.79.1
gcc-3.2.3-34
glibc-2.3.2-95.20
glibc-devel-2.3.2-95.20
glibc-devel-2.3.2-95.20 (32 bit)
compat-db-4.0.14-5
compat-gcc-7.3-2.96.128
compat-gcc-c++-7.3-2.96.128
compat-libstdc++-7.3-2.96.128
compat-libstdc++-devel-7.3-2.96.128
gnome-libs-1.4.1.2.90-34.1 (32 bit)
openmotif21-2.1.30-8
 setarch-1.3-1
libaio-0.3.96-3
libaio-devel-0.3.96-3

Disk Space Requirements

See that oracle database requires 3.5 GB of Free disk space.

Also Temporary space is required upto 400 MB.

Command to check: df -h

Staging Software

Download Oracle9i software from otn.oracle.com and stage it to any location of your
harddisk.

Steps to be performed as Root user

Setting up kernel parameters

Why?
Oracle9i uses UNIX resources such as shared memory, swap memory, and semaphore
extensively for interprocess communication. If your parameter settings are insufficient for
Oracle9i, then you will experience problems during installation and instance startup. The
greater the amount of data you can store in memory, the faster your database will operate.
In addition, by maintaining data in memory, the UNIX kernel reduces disk I/O activity.
These are the recommended kernel parameter requirements for Oracle9i environment.
a) Just create a startup script and put the script in init file. Include below
parameters in the script.
semmsl semmns semopm semmni 250 32000 100 128 /proc/sys/kernel/sem
shmall 2097152 /proc/sys/kernel/shmall
shmmax 2147483648 /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
shmmni 4096 /proc/sys/kernel/shmmni

b) Set the File Handles by using ulimit -n and /proc/sys/fs/file-max.

# echo 65536 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max
ulimit -n 65536

c) Set the Sockets to /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range

# echo 1024 65000 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
 d) Set the Process limit by using ulimit -u. This will give you the number of
Processes per user.

ulimit -u 16384

Create OSDBA and OSOPER groups using the following command

groupadd dba------OSDBA group

groupadd oper------OSOPER group

Why?
SYSDBA privileges include the right to grant or revoke system privileges, as well
as all other administrative privileges. OSDBA group membership must be granted
only to database administrators.

SYSOPER include database startup and shutdown, and other privileges required
for database operation. Users granted access to OSOPER group privileges include
application developers, application administrators, database users, and network
administrators.

Create UNIX account to own ORACLE software using the following

Command.

Useradd –G dba,oper –d /u01/oracle10g –p welcome oracle10g

Where Oracle10g is user.

Change the permissons of the user to its respective directory. Make sure that user
and group have read, write and executable permissions.

Chmod –R 775 /u01/oracle10g

Change the ownership of user to its respective directory.

Chown –R oracle9i:dba /u01/oracle10g

Steps to be performed as an oracle user

Login to terminal as an Oracle10g user and set the envitomental variables by creating an
.env file.

Commands:
 Su – oracle10g
Vi ofdb1.env
export ORACLE_BASE=/u01/oracle10g
export ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/product
export ORACLE_SID=ofdb1
export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.19
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib
export PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH
export
ORA_NLS33=$ORACLE_HOME/ocommon/nls/admin/data

umask 022

:wq--- save and quit

Now run the script using following command
. .ofdb1.env

Installation

Go to the staged software directory and run “.runInstaller” script and hence the
Installation starts.

Windows that appears while installations:

a) Asks Oracle SID and Global SID
b) Asks to run /tmp/orainstRoot.sh script as a root user to see that orainventory
has access to oracle user.
c) After installation it asks to run Oracle_home/root.sh script as a root user
which sets the necessary file permissions for Oracle products and performs
other root-related configuration activities.

Obervations after installation

Oracle User: oracle10g

Database/ SID name: ofdb1
Global SID name: ofdb1.us.oracle.com
LISTENER name: LISTENER
Spfile/Pfile naming convention: spfileofdb1.ora/intofdb1.ora
Location of Software: /u01/oracle10g/product
Naming convention of Env file: ofdb1.env (/u01/oracle10g/ofdbdb1.env)
Location of Database: /u01/oracle10g/oradata
Location of Web server: ORACLE_HOME/Apache/Apache/http
All URL:
The following J2EE Applications have been deployed and are accessible at the
URLs listed below.

iSQL*Plus URL:
http://ocvmrh2149.us.oracle.com:5560/isqlplus
iSQL*Plus DBA URL:
http://ocvmrh2149.us.oracle.com:5560/isqlplus/dba
Enterprise Manager 10g Database Control URL:
http://ocvmrh2149.us.oracle.com:1158/em

SGA size:
Total System Global Area 599785472 bytes
Fixed Size 1220796 bytes
Variable Size 167776068 bytes
Database Buffers 427819008 bytes
Redo Buffers 2969600 bytes