Release 12 Installation on Sun Solaris

Release 12 Installation on Sun Solaris

Ever since the release of Oracle Applications release 12 i have been waiting do a post on the installation but never did get the chance. Now finally here it is.

The current post is a step by step documentation of install ting Oracle Applications Release 12 on Sun Solaris 8, 64 bit.

Before you begin the installation make you have staged your software. If you are staging from the DVD pack you can use the adautostg.pl script.

If you have downloaded from edelivery you can just unzip the various parts.

The staged directory structure should look something similar.

oraAS/

oraAppDB/

oraApps/

oraDB/

startCD/

Creating OS Users

The next step is to create two OS users for the database and the primary application tier.

useradd -g dba -d /home/applsam applsam

useradd -g dba -d /home/applsam orasam

Oracle Inventory.

Next i will set up my global inventory to a different location. It better to have this specially when you have multiple instances of different versions on the same box.

cd /var/opt/oracle/

vi oraInst.loc

inventory_loc=/d01/rel12/rel12inv

inst_group=dba

Pre requisite Patches and Packages

Make sure you have all the pre requisite patches and the packages for your OS platform.

You can find the list in the metalink note 402312.1
also you will need an approximate of 140GB to complete a VISION installation of Release 12.More Detailed space requirements can be found in the above mentioned release notes.

Starting The installation.
You can start the installation by setting the appropriate DISPLAY and the running rapidwiz. In a multi user installation you must start the installation from root

/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz

./rapidwiz

The first screen is the rapid install welcome screen

Next you will be asked to select the type of installation you want to go ahead with. You can choose a standard or an express install. you can also choose to upgrade you oracle applications.

Release 12 comes bundled with Oracle Configuration Manager(OCM).OCM is a tool which allows oracle to gather system information about your instances to help provide support. In case you are planning to install OCM make sure the user through which the installation is  is being done is access to crontab.

If you have chosen to install OCM you will be provided with a screen to enter your CSI number and metalink account name.  Also your proxy details to connect to the internet.

If you have an existing configuration file yo can choose that here or choose to create a new config file for your installation.

Next you specify the port pool for your instance.

The Next screen allows you to specify your Database tier configuration details.

Now you specify the configuration details of your primary application tier.

The following screen shows your nodes and configuration, it also allows you to add a new server to this configuration.

After this a quick pre installation validation check is done,

The next screen allows you to review the components you are about to install.

The installation now begins.

After the installation a post validation similar to 11.5.10 is done and you can log on into the instance.

Release 12 Installation on Sun Solaris