Tasks involved in installing SF Oracle RAC on the new node include:
Make sure you have superuser (root) privileges to load the SF Oracle RAC software. You can use the mount
command to mount the disc.
To navigate to the folder containing the installsfrac program
Before installing the SF Oracle RAC software on the new node, you must verify that the new node meets the installation requirements.
To check the new node for installation
precheck
option to verify the current operating system level, patch level, licenses, and disk space are adequate for a successful installation:
# ./installsfrac -precheck saturn
The precheck
function of the utility proceeds without user interaction.
precheck
function indicates a requirement for licensing, add the license when running the installation utility.
The precheck
function may prompt you for other requirements.
-installonly
option.
You must install SF Oracle RAC using the -installonly
option and later manually configure the new node joining the cluster.
To install SF Oracle RAC on new node without configuration
-installonly
option to install SF Oracle RAC without performing configuration:
The new node will use the configuration from the existing cluster nodes.
Enter a SFRAC license key for saturn: [?] XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XX
Do you want to enter another license key for saturn? [y,n,q,?]
installsfrac -configure
.