Oracle Application Server 11g Release 1

(11.1.0) Installation On CentOS 5

Created by: Nguyen Quoc Huy
Email: nguyen.quoc.huy@hotmail.com

In this article I'll describe the installation of Oracle Application Server 11g Release 1 (11.1.0) on
CentOS 5.

Additional steps may be necessary when starting with a different base OS installation.

 Download Software
 Unpack Files
 Hosts File
 Setup

Download Software
Download the following software:

 Oracle Application Server 11g Release 1 (11.1.0) Software

 Sun JDK 1.4.2.19

Unpack Files
Unpack the contents of the file:
unzip linux_11gR1_database_1013.zip
The installation files unpack into the current directory (/tmp/oradb/).

Hosts File
The /etc/hosts file must contain a fully qualified name for the server:
<IP-address> <fully-qualified-machine-name> <machine-name>

Set Up
This section shows you how to install Oracle Database 11gR1. It will guide you through the
following steps:

 Install Prerequisite package

 Create required groups and users
 Create directories storing oracle file
 Set environment for user oracle
  Configure Linux Kernel Parameter
 Set shell limits for user oracle
 Disable SElinux
 Install Oracle

1. Install Prerequisite package

Depending on the products that you intend to install, verify that the following software is
installed on the system
 Java Runtime Environment j2re-1.4.2.19
 libXp-1.0.0-8.1.el5
 binutils-2.17.50.0.6-2.el5
 compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61
 elfutils-libelf-0.125-3.el5
 elfutils-libelf-devel-0.125
 gcc-4.1.1-52
 gcc-c++-4.1.1-52
 glibc-2.5-12
 glibc-common-2.5-12
 glibc-devel-2.5-12
 glibc-headers-2.5-12
 libaio-0.3.106
 libaio-devel-0.3.106
 libgcc-4.1.1-52
 libstdc++-4.1.1
 libstdc++-devel-4.1.1-52.e15
 make-3.81-1.1
 sysstat-7.0.0
 unixODBC-2.2.11
 unixODBC-devel-2.2.11

You want to check whether the packages are installed or not, run the following
command:

# rpm -q make binutils gcc libaio libaio-devel libstdc++

elfutils-libelf-devel sysstat compat-libstdc++ libgcc libstdc++-
devel unixODBC-2.2.11 unixODBC-devel

To install the package, run command:

# yum –y install libXp

2. Create required groups and users

Depending on the Oracle software being installed on this system, you need to create
operating groups and users. The groups and user required to create are dba, oinstall
group and oracle user.

To create these groups and user, enter the following command with user root:
 # groupadd oinstall
# groupadd dba
# useradd -m -g oinstall -G dba oracle
# passwd oracle

Check user oracle is belong to oinstall and dba group:

# id oracle
uid=501(oracle) gid=501(oinstall) groups=501(oinstall),502(dba)

3. Create directories storing oracle files

The system need directory to store data file, configuration. You create the folder /u01 and
assign right to it

# mkdir -p /u01/app/oracle/product/11.1.0
# chown -R oracle:oinstall /u01/app
# chmod -R 775 /u01/app

4. Set environment for user oracle

Log into system with user oracle.
Edit file /home/oracle/.bash_profile and insert the following line:

#environment for oracle

ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle
ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/product/11.1.0/fsrv
ORACLE_SID=fsrvorcl
PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/bin
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib:/lib:/usr/lib
CLASSPATH=$ORACLE_HOME/JRE:$ORACLE_HOME/jlib:$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/j
lib

export ORACLE_BASE ORACLE_HOME ORACLE_SID PATH LD_LIBRARY_PATH

CLASSPATH

5. Configure Linux Kernel Parameter

Using gedit to add below information to file /etc/sysctl.conf

fs.file-max = 6553600
kernel.shmall = 2097152
kernel.shmmax = 2147483648
kernel.shmmni = 4096
kernel.sem = 250 32000 100 128
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 65000
net.core.rmem_default = 4194304
 net.core.rmem_max = 4194304
net.core.wmem_default = 262144
net.core.wmem_max = 262144
net.ipv4.tcp_wmem = 262144 262144 262144
net.ipv4.tcp_rmem = 4194304 4194304 4194304

Checking result, enter command to change the current values of the kernel:
# /sbin/sysctl –p

Enter command to confirm that the values are set correctly:

# /sbin/sysctl –a

6. Set shell limits for user oracle

To improve the performance of the software on Linux system, you must increase the
following shell limits for the oracle user.

As root, edit file /etc/security/limits.conf and insert some text before # End of file

oracle soft nproc 2047

oracle hard nproc 16384
oracle soft nofile 1024
oracle hard nofile 65536

Verify file /etc/pam.d/system-auth to check the existing of two following lines:

session required /lib/security/pam_limits.so

session required pam_limits.so

If you don’t see the first line, insert it.

7. Disable the SElinux

Edit file /etc/selinux/config, find SELINUX and change it to

SELINUX=disabled

8. Install Oracle
To install the Oracle software, you must use the Oracle Universal installer.

 Start the Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) by issuing the following command in the
Oracle source directory:
./runInstaller
 On Installation Method screen, choose Basic Installation. Check the Oracle home
location and installation type. Select option Create Starter Database
Enter the database name fsrvorcl and password and confirmed password fsrvorcl
 You need to specify your Inventory directory. The location should be set to
/u01/app/oracle/oraInventory. Accept the default Operating System group name,
oinstall. Then, click Next.

 The installer now verifies that the system meets all the minimum requirements for
installing and configuring the chosen product. Please correct any reported errors
before continuing. When the check successfully completes, click Next.
 Oracle Configuration Manager allows you to associate your configuration
information with your Metalink account. You can choose to enable it on this window.
Then, click Next.
 Review the Summary window to verify what is to be installed. Then, click Install.

 Oracle installation is in progress. Waiting for completion.

 The Configure Assistants windows appears.

 Your database is now being created.

 When the database has been created, you can unlock the users you want to use. Click
OK.

 You need to execute orainstRoot.sh and root.sh as the root user

$ su - root
# /u01/app/oraInventory/orainstRoot.sh
# /u01/app/oracle/product/11.1.0/db_1/root.sh
# exit
# exit <- close terminal
Switch back to the Universal Installer and click OK
  Click Exit on End of Installation screen. Click Yes to confirm exit

 Access database control login. Open IE or Firefox, then enter url:

https://vnfsora01.fsrv.vn:1158/em/
Enter sys as username, fsrvorcl as password and connect as SYSDBA. Click Login
 Note: if you can’t access this web console, please start OEM Database Control, listener
and open database.

$ su - oracle
# emctl start dbconsole
# lsnrctl start
# sqlplus “/ as sysdba”
> startup open

 The Database Control Home Page appears. Your installation was successful.