Installing and configuring OPS/RAC

Install Oracle 8i/9i Enterprise Edition, Net8 Server, Oracle Parallel Server/RAC Option, Oracle Intelligent Agent (if Oracle Enterprise Manager is used), Oracle Data Gatherer (if Oracle Diagnostics Pack is used for generating performance reports) and a Web browser if you have not installed it. The steps are:

1. Create the dba user group, then create the Oracle user and make it a member of the dba group.

2. Create a mount point directory on each node so that the name of the mount point on each node is identical, and so that the Oracle account has read, write, and execute privileges.

3. Grant permission to use the rcp command. Set up user equivalence on the node from which you will install OPS/RAC by adding entries for all nodes in the cluster to the .rhosts file of the Oracle account, or the /etc/hosts.equiv file.

4. Install Oracle 8i/9i Enterprise Edition with the OPS/RAC option. Please note that the Oracle Universal Installer will not make Oracle Parallel Server Option visible unless Cluster Manager cluster software has been properly configured. If you have problems, please see the platform-specific cluster software configurations discussed previously in this chapter (Oracle integrated RAC with MSCS).

5. Select the required node in the cluster node selection window, for example opshp1 or opshp2. You will also be asked to enter a SID in the database identification window.

6. Follow the typical installation and create a database for WebSphere.

7. Start the listener of each node using lsnrctl start.

8. Start the database on each node using connect internal/password; startup.

9. Verify that all the defined OPS/RAC instances are running by using the following query:

select * from v$active_instances

10. Fix any problems.

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