Oracle-L: Re: iAS 903 902 install

From: mkb <mkb125_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 14:48:40 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00533991.20030117144840@fatcity.com>

Hi Barb,

Don't know if the following helps any but I went through an install of this beast a few months back. Here are my notes:

hth
mohammed

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mkb [SMTP:mkb125_at_yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 12:49 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Re: A DBA looks at OAS
>
> No books or tips. Just my recent experience
*trying*
> to install 9iAS R2 (I hope that's what you meant
when
> you wrote OAS).
>
> I downloaded 9iAS J2EE and Web Cache for Solaris and
> HP-UX.
>
> Oracle recommends about 1GB ram, 1GB swap and lots
of
> free disk space. Anyway, my target Solaris box had
> 500MB swap, 256MB ram and a 400 MhZ SparcII CPU.
Not
> the ideal platform. On the HP-UX box, I had 3GB
ram,
> a 2 CPU L class machine, lots of swap and lots of
> disk.
>
> In any case, what I learned is that root privs are
> vital. Had them on the Solaris box but not on the
> HP-UX machine. The installs in both cases where
> fairly standard. I had ran through them quite a few
> times on both servers. On Solaris becuase of
resource
> issues and HP-UX because of root permission issues.
>
> There are two types of installs. A mid-tier (less
> config, easier, fewer components) and an
> infrastructure (more config, more components, needs
a
> database repoistory). I did the mid-tier install in
> both cases.
>
> Make sure you have JDK 1.3 or later installed.
>
> Before the install for mid-tier in particular,
export
> ORACLE_SID=iasdb even if you do not intend to use a
> repository or have a database.
>
> I created a separate ORACLE_HOME for my install.
>
> Also, Oracle recommends that you use hostnames, so
> naming methods should reflect hostname.com instead
of
> 123.45.67.8.
>
> During the install, you will be asked for a password
> for the Eterprise Manager website. NOTE IT DOWN!!!
> You'll need it to start and stop the EM website.
> Oracle recommends that you start and stop services
via
> the EM website and not the command line and I'll go
> along with this since I had trouble shutting down
> services via the command line (sometime it worked
and
> sometime it did'nt).
>
> Also, during the install when prompted to run the
> root.sh script, run as root since this script starts
> the Apache httpd daemons. These need to be started
as
> root. It does a bunch of other config things
aswell.
> See root.sh. This is vital since after the install
is
> complete, the installer then configures the
components
> such web cache, OC4J components, Apache config etc.
> This is the problem I was having on HP-UX, late in
the
> day, govt client, sysadmin has left the building.
>
> Ok, after the install has completed and started all
> the services (hoepfully), you need to apply all
> relevant patches. For the mid tier install, install
> the patch in the following order:
>
> 9.0.1.3 patch set
> RDBMS bundled patch
> Oracle Internet Directory path
> Oracle HTTP server patch
>
> You'll see this in the install notes for the patch.
> Note that the RDBMS bundled patch is slightly
> different on HP-UX versus Solaris. Just read the
> instructions carefully if you are on HP-UX. Solaris
> was a little easier.
>
> After the patch, you can login to the EM website at
> http://myhostname.com:1810. If the website does not
> come up, you can start it from the prompt using
emctl
> start|stop|status. Stopping requires password which
> was entered earlier during install. Password can
also
> be changed using emctl set password <pwd>.
>
> Using the website, you can/start stop other services
> such as web cache, BC4J, OC4J containers etc.
>
> The default website can be accessed (hopefully) at
> http://myhostname.com:7777
>
> Also, you can start|stop the httpd daemons from the
> command line from $ORACLE_HOME/dcm/bin/dcmctl
> start|stop -ct ohs if the EM website is inaccessible
> for some reason. Again, Oracle recommends that you
do
> all admin through EM the website.
>
> Similarly, web cache can be started/stopped from the
> prompt by webcachectl start|stop|status.
>
> Finally, just a couple days ago, we seemed to have
> trouble starting 9iAS. Seems like some log files
had
> their ownership changed. Don't know how this
> happened. My guess is some sort of bug. The way I
> tracked this is tailing the logs while trying to
start
> the server. Since I could'nt get the EM website up,
I
> had to use $ORACLE_HOME/dcm/bin/dcmctl start -ct
ohs.
>
> Useful logs were:
> $ORACLE_HOME/opmn/logs/ons.log and ipm.log
> $ORACLE_HOME/dcm/logs/emd_logs/ and dcmctl_logs/
> and of cource
> $ORACLE_HOME/Apache/Apache/logs/error_log and
> access_log
>

Jeff Herrick <jherrick_at_igs.net> wrote:
>
> Barb,
>
> I've been deploying forms over the web since OAS
> 4.07 and I had
> Oracle WebServer experience going back to version 2.
> What I found
> was that knowing all of that stuff made it worse for
> trying to
> figure out 9IAS Rel 2 (9.03). What further
> complicates it (web
> forms that is) is that if you read the documents on
> Metalink
> regarding the forms listener 'Servlet'
> implementation then you
> will be lost trying to set it up using 9.0.3
>
> 9IAS Rel 2 uses OC4J (Oracle Container 4 Java) to
> run the forms
> listener servlet so most of the config is done for
> you already.
> Your point of contact with the app server is the
>
> IAS_HOME\forms90\server\formsweb.cfg
>
> file which contains most of the variables that I
> used to hand-code
> in the static html JInitiator file. What you need to
> do to get a
> form up is
>
> 1) install the 9IAS Rel2 Infrastructure in its own
> home
> 2) intall the 9IAS Rel2 BI Forms and Reports install
> in its own home
> 3) install Forms9i/Reports9i in its own home
> 4) add a section called 'barb' to the IAS_HOME (not
> the infrastructure
> or forms home) \forms90\server\formsweb.cfg like
> the following
>
> [barb]
> form=your_main_menu.fmx
> separateFrame=True
> lookandfeel=Generic
> otherparams=others parms your forms might need
>
> 5) Add your forms path to the FORMS90_PATH variable
> in the
> file IAS_HOME\forms90\server\default.env
>
> 6) bring up the IAS instance in the OEM brower and
> stop and
> start the BI_FORMS OC4J instance
>
> 7) point your browser at
>
> http://yourserver:yourport/forms90/f90servlet?config=barb
>
> and your form should come up
>
> Note all of the port numbers that the install
> assigns. On a fresh
> install I got port=1810 for the OEM console and
> port=7778 for the
> first website.
>
> In comparison to OAS/OWS it's easy, that's why I say
> that knowing
> the earlier architectures can be even more confusing
> =8-)
>
> HTH
>
> Jeff Herrick
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Barbara Baker wrote:
>
> > List:
> > I'm touching iAS for the first time ever. I don't
> > understand even basic stuff about it.
> >
> > The install I have includes 9.0.2 and 9.0.3. The
> > install says "9.0.3 is the first J2EE 1.3
> compatible
> > release of Oracle9iAS. ..blah blah.. Oracle9iAS
> > 9.0.3 contains only the J2EE and Web Cache
> > Installation Type of Oracle9iAS and is compatible
> with
> > Oracle9iAS 9.0.2 infrastructures for clustering,
> > management, and security."
> >
> > Do I need to install 9.0.2 and then install 9.0.3
> on
> > top of it to get everyting I need?
> >
> > We're currently in an evaluation phase.
> Developers
> > want iAS to deploy forms, portal, and build apps
> with
> > java.
> >
> > I have 9.0.3 installed, but don't really
> understand
> > what I have, and we're not able to launch a form.
> >
> > Thanks for any help!
> > (This is the most frustrating, confusing product
> I've
> > ever seen!!!!)
> > Barb
> >
> >
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