1 Summary of Installation Steps

Oracle Application Server is an integrated and powerful product. To optimize its capabilities, you should take time to read this guide so that you and the product get off on the right foot.

This chapter provides an overview of the steps to install Oracle Application Server. The other chapters in this guide describe the steps in detail.

The steps for installing Oracle Application Server are:

1. Read the following documents for the most current information:

   • Oracle Application Server 10g Release Notes

     You can find the latest version of the release notes document on Oracle Technology Network (http://otn.oracle.com/documentation/ias.html).

   • Note 248904.1, "ALERT Oracle Application Server 10g (9.0.4) Support Status and Alerts"

     You can find this note at OracleMetaLink (http://metalink.oracle.com). The easiest way to access the note is to click the Advanced Search button at the top of the OracleMetaLink site, and search for Doc ID "248904.1".

2. Check that the computers where you want to run Oracle Application Server meet the requirements. This includes:

   • Section 4.1, "Check Hardware Requirements"

   • Section 4.2, "Check the Software Requirements"

   • Section 4.3, "Check Kernel Parameters"

   • Section 4.4, "Ports"

   • Section 4.5, "Operating System Groups"

   • Section 4.6, "Operating System User"

   • Section 4.7, "Environment Variables"

   • Section 4.8, "The /etc/hosts File"

   • Section 4.9, "Network Topics"

3. Read Chapter 5, " Things You Should Know Before Starting the Installation" to get a big picture of how the different parts of Oracle Application Server work together. This chapter describes the OracleAS Infrastructure 10g, Oracle Application Server middle tiers, where you can install them, and what values the installer expects on some of the installation screens.

4. Read Chapter 6, " InstallingOracleAS Infrastructure 10g" and Chapter 7, " InstallingMiddleTiers" to get details on the main parts of Oracle Application Server.

5. If you want to run Oracle Application Server in a high availability environment such as OracleAS Cold Failover Cluster or Oracle Data Guard, read Chapter 9, " Installing in High Availability Environments" to learn how to install Oracle Application Server in such environments. To run Oracle Application Server with a Real Application Clusters database, see Section 10.8, "Installing OracleAS Metadata Repository in a Real Application Clusters Database".

6. Choose a topology. You can install Oracle Application Server on multiple computers to improve scalability, availability, security, and performance. Chapter 11, " Recommended Topologies" describes the recommended development and deployment topologies.

7. Install Oracle Application Server (infrastructure and/or middle tiers). Follow the appropriate procedures in Chapter 6, " InstallingOracleAS Infrastructure 10g" and Chapter 7, " InstallingMiddleTiers".

8. After you install Oracle Application Server, access the Welcome page and run some demos to ensure that the installation was successful.