Re: fooling EM setup into using a different host name

On 28 Aug 2006 01:28:59 -0700, "frank.van.bortel_at_gmail.com" <frank.van.bortel_at_gmail.com> wrote:

>
>NetComrade schreef:
>
>> Our hostname is 'sun'
>> However, the database listens on 'orasun' (so that we could fail it
>> over to another host)
>> I've tried playing with configs, but I just don't really know what to
>> change.
>> Is there are a way to make the initial setup use a different host
>> name? I tried setting up HOST and HOSTNAME env variables, but that
>> didn't help
>>
>> Thanks
>> .......
>> We run Oracle 9iR2,10gR1/2 on RH4/RH3
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>Iirc, you should set ORACLE_HOSTNAME. But this
>does not always work as advertised... What does?
>In that case: edit oraparam.ini, or -if you are installing from CD,
>copy it over to a writeable location, and then edit.
>
>Find the lines:
>
>#SHOW_HOSTNAME=ALWAYS_SHOW shows the hostname panel always
>#SHOW_HOSTNAME=NEVER_SHOW does not the hostname panel
>#SHOW_HOSTNAME=CONDITION_SHOW shows the hostname panel on condition
>SHOW_HOSTNAME=NEVER_SHOW
>
>Change the "NEVER_SHOW" into "ALWAYS_SHOW".
>Now start the installer - if you had to copy over the
>oraparam.ini to a writable location, add the -paramFile
>to the command line when starting runInstaller:
>runInstaller -paramFile <fully qualified ini file>
>

Maybe Sybrand was right with command line options, but this was the most helpful and worked after a few restarts of dbconsole post-install (I couldn't figure it out with command line options).

Thanks!
.......
We run Oracle 9iR2,10gR1/2 on RH4/RH3
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