Re: Remote Install of SQL*Net - Need Ideas

From: Chris Kasten <kasten_at_brookings.net>
Date: 1996/03/08
Message-ID: <31403b34.75516826_at_news.brookings.net>#1/1


badri_at_cc.gatech.edu (badri) wrote:

> Hi:
>
> * We need to install several products for our
> custom product one of which is SQL*Net V1.1 (and/or V2.2) since we are
> going to use Gupta and SQL*Net to talk to ORACLE. What I
> need is a method to install the client side of SQL*Net
> on the 100s of client machines. We would like to see if
> we can use ORACLE installer in batch mode. Has any one been
> able to use this? In other words, we dont want the users
> (who may not be Computer literate) to answer ORACLE Installer's
> questions, we want them to just click on install and the program
> that we hope to have) will call ORACLE installer to do the work.
>
> Is this possible? I was told that ORACLE Client Software
> Manager does something similar, but that is for Developer/2000.
> We want only SQL*Net to be installed.
>
Can't really help you with the batch mode request, but I can offer the following nuggets of wisdom ;-)

  1. Oracle Client Software Manager will work for just SQL*Net, BUT IMHO it is not worth the effort when you could do the following.
  2. If all your users are on a network you could:
  3. Do a normal install of the oracle software you need (SQL*Net, etc) to one of the clients. Install all the software to a common network drive.
  4. Copy that clients ORACLE.INI file to everyone else's local windows directory.
    • OR --
  5. Put the ORACLE.INI file on a network drive. Modify everyone's WIN.INI file to point to it.
      [Oracle]
      ORA_CONFIG=G:\SHARED\ORAWIN\CFG\ORACLE.INI

Either method should save you a lot of time.

[disclaimer]
Did this from memory, but believe its right.

Hope this helps,

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Chris Kasten
Programmer/Analyst

#include <std/disclaimer.h>

"640K is enough for everyone" - Bill Gates 1981 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Received on Fri Mar 08 1996 - 00:00:00 CET

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