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Relinking Oracle9i binaries to use Veritas libraries
after adding patches

Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions 5.0

Main Menu > Install or relink Oracle > Choose task

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* Installing Oracle RDBMS server automatically does relinking

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1) Install Oracle RDBMS server

2) Relink Oracle

b) [Go to previous menu]

Select an option [1-2,b,q] 2

Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions 5.0

Main Menu > Install or relink Oracle > Relink Oracle

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This step will:

* Relink Oracle software using SFRAC static libraries -OR-

* Copy dynamic SFRAC libraries to Oracle directories

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Press [Return] to continue:

Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions 5.0

Main Menu > Install or relink Oracle > Relink Oracle > Oracle Username

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Oracle is installed and run as special Oracle userid. You should have created such a user id on all systems using the name

and numerical uid & gid

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Enter Oracle UNIX user name: [b] (oracle) oracle

Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions 5.0

Main Menu > Install or relink Oracle > Relink Oracle > Oracle Groupname

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Oracle database home will belong to this group

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Enter Oracle UNIX group name: [b] (dba) dba

Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions 5.0

Main Menu > Install or relink Oracle > Relink Oracle > Oracle base directory

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Specifies the base of the Oracle directory structure for OFA compliant databases.

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Enter Oracle base directory: [b] (/oracle) /app/oracle

Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions 5.0

Main Menu > Install or relink Oracle > Relink Oracle > Database home directory

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Specifies the directory containing Oracle Database Software.

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Enter absolute path of Database Home directory: [b] (/oracle/VRT) /app/oracle/orahome

Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions 5.0

Oracle environment information verification

Oracle Unix User: oracle

Oracle Unix Group: dba

Oracle Release: 9.2

Oracle Base: /app/oracle

Oracle Home: /app/oracle/orahome

RDBMS Installation Path: /var/Oracle9i/database/Disk1

Is this information correct? [y,n,q] (y) y

Linking the Oracle binaries............Started

Linking the Oracle binaries............ Successful on galaxy

Linking the Oracle binaries............ Successful on nebula

Linking the Oracle binaries............Completed

Press [Return] to continue:

Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions 5.0

Main Menu > Install or relink Oracle > Choose task

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* Installing Oracle RDBMS server automatically does relinking

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1) Install Oracle RDBMS server

2) Relink Oracle

b) [Go to previous menu]

Select an option [1-2,b,q] b

Storage Foundation and High Availability Solutions 5.0

Main Menu

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* Keep root shells open on all systems to run INSTRUCTIONS ONLY steps

* Follow the steps in order

* Navigation keys for all screens: q to quit, b for previous menu

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1) Check systems for SFRAC ** INSTRUCTIONS ONLY **

2) Configure SFRAC

3) Prepare to install Oracle

4) Install or relink Oracle

Select an option [1-4,q] q

installer log files are saved at /opt/VRTS/install/logs/installer-xxxxxx