Red Hat Linux 6.

3 X64 OS Only
Image
TIBCO
Demo
Services

Red Hat Linux 6.3 X64 OS with

Oracle 11g R2 X64 Image
Installation/User Guide
VMware Player

Version 1.0

January 2013

This document covers the installation and use of two images. Image one is an
image with Red Hat Enterprise Linux installed. The other is the same image with
the addition of Oracle 11g R2.
Installed and configured software
Red Hat Linux 6.3 distribution
Oracle 11g R2

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Table of Contents
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PRE-REQUISITES ................................................................................................................................................. 3
1.1
INSTALL THE LATEST VMWARE PLAYER SOFTWARE AND LICENSE ...... ERROR! BOOKMARK NOT DEFINED.
1.2
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS ................................................................................................................................. 3
Memory .................................................................................................................................................................... 3
Disk Space .............................................................................................................................................................. 3
CPUs ........................................................................................................................................................................ 3

EXTRACT THE VMWARE IMAGE FROM THE 7ZIP ARCHIVE FILES ....................................................... 4

LOAD/START THE VMWARE IMAGE............................................................................................................... 4

4 LOGIN TO THE VIRTUAL MACHINE ..................................................................................................................... 4

5 INFORMATION ABOUT THE IMAGE ..................................................................................................................... 4
APPENDIX A.

: VERSION HISTORY .................................................................................................................. 5

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1 Pre-requisites
1.1 An installed and running version of VMware Player. See the VMware web site
for details.
1.2 Minimum requirements
Memory
This VMware image is configured to use 8GB of memory. Depending upon what other software and
applications you add to the image you should adjust the memory setting appropriately.
Note that the Oracle image is set to use 8GB of memory. If this is changed the Oracle database will
not start. See the section Information about the Oracle Installation.
Disk Space
A total of 5 GB of local disk space is required to un-compress the image the OS only image.
A total of 36GB of local disk space is required to un-compress the OS plus Oracle image.
CPUs
These images are configured to run on systems with 4 CPUs.

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2 Extract the VMware image from the 7Zip archive files

2.1
The files with an extension of .7z.00* were compressed with 7Zip (http://www.7zip.org/download.html ). 7Zip is the standard compression utility used by the Demo Services Group rather
than other compression software because of distribution license issues. 7Zip also uses an excellent
algorithm for compression, resulting in much smaller files.
1. Install 7Zip on your computer (http://www.7-zip.org/download.html );
2. Copy the VMware image files from the download site to a temporary location on your hard drive,
3. Right-click on the .7z.001 file, click 7zip>extract files. You will be prompted for a password to extract the
files the password is hillview. Specify a directory where the files should be placed.
4. Once the files have been unzipped you can delete the zip files from your hard drive.

3 Load/Start the VMware image

3.1

Start VMware Player and chose the option to Open a Virtual Machine. Locate the folder where you
put the unzipped files. Open the folder RHEL62X64-1-3-13 or RHEL64+ORA11gR2-1-3-13. Select
the file Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 64bit.vmx and click open. Then select Play virtual machine.
The virtual machine will start.

4 Login to the Virtual Machine

Once the RHEL image starts you will get a logon screen. There are two users configured on the OS only
image and three on the image with Oracle.
The user are:root and tibco and for the Oracle image the additional user oracle. All users have the
following password: tibco123

5 Information about the Oracle installation (this information

is also in a readme file on the Oracle users desktop)

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A) For JDBC connections use port 1522 (not 1521). You can check this by running the command
lsnrctl status.
B) Do not change the memory size of the image, if you do, the Oracle database will not start. To see
the error check the startup_shutdown log found at /home/oracle/scripts. This is a well know Oracle
issue and you can finds ways to fix the issue by looking on the internet, if you must change the
memory size of the image.
C) The Oracle environment variables are set when you login as either the user oracle or tibco.
D) The Oracle listener, database and enterprise management console should all start automatically
when the image is booted.
If any of the above items do not start you can do the following and they should start:
1) Open a terminal window
2) At the prompt switch to the root user (su password tibco123)
3) At the next prompt enter: service dbora start
4) If this does not start the Oracle components then look at the startup.sh script and run the
commands one at a time.
E) To shutdown the Oracle components follow the steps one through three above except at step three
change start to stop.
F) The administrator user for the Oracle database and the only non-system user is system password
tibco123. Use this user to create table spaces and users as needed to meet you requirements.
G) If you do not want the Oracle management console to start; edit the script (.sh) files found in
/home/oracle/scripts and comment out or remove the line emctl start dbconsole in the startup.sh
file and the line emctl stop dbconsole in the shutdown.sh file.

Appendix A. : Version History

Date
1.0

January
2013

Author

Notes

Leonard Moseley

Version One of the Installation Guide and Image

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