12 Real Application Clusters Post-Installation Procedures

Download and Install Patches

Refer to the OracleMetaLink Web site for required patches for your installation. To download required patches:

1. Use a Web browser to view the OracleMetaLink Web site:

   http://metalink.oracle.com
   
   

2. Log in to OracleMetaLink.

   
   

   Note: If you are not an OracleMetaLink registered user, then click Register for MetaLink and register.

3. On the main OracleMetaLink page click Patches.

4. On the Select a Patch Search Area page click New MetaLink Patch Search.

5. On the Simple Search page click Advanced.

6. On the Advanced Search page click the search icon next to the Product or Product Family field.

7. In the Search and Select: Product Family field, enter RDBMS Server in the For field and click Go.

8. Select RDBMS Server under the Results heading and click Select.

   RDBMS Server appears in the Product or Product Family field and the current release appears in the Release field.

9. Select your platform from the list in the Platform field and click Go.

10. Any available patches appear under the Results heading.

11. Click the number of the patch that you want to download.

12. On the Patch Set page, click View README and read the page that appears. The README page contains information about the patch set and how to apply the patches to your installation.

13. Return to the Patch Set page, click Download, and save the file on your system.

14. Use the unzip utility provided with Oracle Database 10g to uncompress the Oracle patches that you downloaded from OracleMetaLink. On UNIX systems, the unzip utility is located in the $ORACLE_HOME/bin directory and on Windows systems, the utility is located in the $ORACLE_HOME\BIN directory.

Configure Oracle Products

Many Oracle products and options must be configured before you use them for the first time. Before using individual Oracle Database 10g database products or options, refer to the manual in the product documentation library which is available on the documentation CD-ROM or on the OTN Web site.

Register COM Applications (Windows Systems Only)

On Windows clusters, all COM components must be manually registered on remote cluster nodes. COM components include:

• Oracle Administration Assistant for Windows

• Oracle Counters for Windows Performance Monitor

• Oracle Data Provider for .NET

• Oracle Objects for OLE

• Oracle Provider for OLE DB

To register COM components on remote cluster nodes (the nodes where you did not run the Oracle Universal Installer), execute the following command on each of them:

ORACLE_BASE\ORACLE_HOME\bin\selecthome.bat

Verifying Enterprise Manager Operations

On all systems, you should run the following command to verify the Enterprise Manager configuration in your newly installed Real Application Clusters environment:

srvctl config database -d db_name

SRVCTL displays the name of the node and the instance for the node. The following example shows a node named db1-server running an instance named db1. Execute the following command:

srvctl config database -d db

The output should be similar to:

db1-server db1 /private/system/db
db2-server db2 /private/system/db

If you are working on a UNIX-based system, then you should continue with the following section, "Recommended Post-Installation Tasks for UNIX". If you working on a Windows-based system, then you are ready to perform the initial configuration tasks described in Part IV.

Recommended Post-Installation Tasks for UNIX

Oracle recommends that you complete the following tasks after installing Oracle RAC on a UNIX-based system:

• Back Up the root.sh Script

• Set Up Users Accounts