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Configure WebSphere Portal to use Oracle

This section provides information on how to manually transfer data to the Oracle database you have installed and set up. Follow these steps to transfer WebSphere Portal, and Java Content Repository databases to Oracle. As an alternative to the manual database transfer procedure described here, you can use the configuration wizard to complete the database transfer task.

Before you begin:

Ensure that the following prerequisites are met:


Prerequisites

Installing Oracle

Creating databases

Creating users

Modifying database properties

Set up databases
Tips:

When doing a single database, single user, and multi schema database transfer, there can be only one user for each domain (release, community, customization, JCR, Feedback, and LikeMinds), and the schema for each database must be different.

The user must be a superuser or DBA and must have authority over all other schemas for the transfer to work.

Steps for transferring data to another supported database

  1. Open a command prompt and change to the directory profile_root/ConfigEngine.

  2. Enter the following commands to validate configuration properties.

    ./ConfigEngine.sh validate-database-driver -DTransferDomainList=release,customization,community,jcr,feedback,likeminds -DWasPassword=password
    

    ./ConfigEngine.sh validate-database-connection -DTransferDomainList=release,customization,community,jcr,feedback,likeminds -DWasPassword=password
    

  3. From the same command prompt as the previous steps, change to the directory profile_root/bin.

  4. Stop both WAS and the WebSphere Portal server:

    Option Description
    WAS ./stopServer.sh server1-username admin_userid -password admin_password
    WebSphere Portal ./stopServer.sh WebSphere_Portal -username admin_userid -password admin_password

  5. Transfer the database:

    1. cd profile_root/ConfigEngine.

    2. Enter the following command:

      ./ConfigEngine.sh database-transfer -DTransferDomainList=release,customization,community,jcr, feedback,likeminds
      

    3. After running this task, a message is added to the log files to verify that this task was successful. Check the log files. If the configuration fails, verify the values in the wkplc.properties, wkplc_comp.properties, and wkplc_dbtype.properties files and then repeat this step.

  6. After transferring the database tables, run the dbms_stats.gather_schema_stats command to avoid slow database response. Example:

    SQL> execute dbms_stats.gather_schema_stats(ownname=> 'jcr', cascade=> TRUE);
    

  7. Change to the directory profile_root/bin.

  8. Enter the following command to start the WebSphere Portal server: ./startServer.sh WebSphere_Portal

If you have performed database transfer in a clustered environment, explicitly copy the profile_root/PortalServer/jcr/lib/com/ibm/icm/icm.properties file from the primary node on which the database-transfer task was processed to all secondary nodes. This ensures that the secondary nodes have the new JCR database values specified in the icm.properties file.

  1. Stop the portal server on the secondary node.

  2. Copy the profile_root/PortalServer/jcr/lib/com/ibm/icm/icm.properties file from the primary node and replace the icm.properties file on the secondary node with the new file from the primary node.

  3. Start the portal server on the secondary node.


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Set up a remote Oracle database on AIX, HP-UX, Linux, and Solaris for a stand-alone production server


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