Re: Avoiding 18XE preinstall on Linux

FWIW, after viewing logs on a different 18XE preinstall and backing up a few files, I ran the 18c XE preinstall. Turns out that the 19c preinstall and the 18c preinstall are very similar. The major changes I could find were that now all of the comments in /etc/sysctl.conf say "18c" instead of "19c". It also appears to have not modified my tuned profile nor grub entries, so I'm good.

Would have saved a lot of time and effort if the preinstall could be avoided in the future. I'm sure dnf will fix everything... ;)

Rich

On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 3:40 PM Rich J <rich242j_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey Niall,
>
> As there's a low number of servers to manage, I'm using Ansible
> (agent-less, zero overhead -- perfect for the 10-ish servers). The irony
> is that this server is acting like a poor man's management server for the
> other servers. But none of the other servers will be using 18XE. The
> existing 19.6 install is the repository for EM13 and I want to add 18XE for
> centrally storing some logs that can be reported via Apex (i.e. nothing
> critical with zero license cost).
>
> Thanks,
> Rich
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 3:14 PM <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What do you use for configuration management? We use puppet and have a
>> (horrible horrible horrible - go see Enterprise Modules for a proper
>> approach) setup that manages all the pre-reqs. IMO pre-install is for
>> customers that don't do config management. If you do, get friendly with the
>> config management folks in your sysadmin team.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 5:36 PM Rich J <rich242j_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey all,
>>>
>>> On OEL7.7, I have Oracle 19.6 installed and I want to install 18XE. The
>>> problem is that I don't want to install/run the preinstall dependency and
>>> have it overwrite my kernel/user parameters, users, groups, etc. The only
>>> way I can think of how to do that is to use "rpm --nodeps" instead of
>>> "yum". But I'd like to avoid using rpm to install outside of yum if
>>> possible.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Rich
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Niall Litchfield
>> Oracle DBA
>> http://www.orawin.info
>>
>

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