In this Blog we show how we installed the Oracle 10gR2 database software and create a 4 node RAC database.
Unpack the Oracle 10gR2 database software file with:
cpio -idcmv < 10201_database_linuxitanium.cpio
It is essential that the /var/opt/oracle/oraInst.loc file contains the CRS OraInventory like this:
inventory_loc=/u01/sw1/app/oracle/product/oraInventory/crs
inst_group=oinstall
Otherwise the OUI will not detect a Cluster for RAC database creation!
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After the succesfull installation of the agent to a SUN-host (using the push method), I tested the installation of the management agent using the pull-method on a linux host.
I followed the following steps:
On the managementserver
- download agent software from OTN (Linux)
- Copy the downloaded file (Linux_Grid_Control_agent_download_10_2_0_1.cpio.gz) to oms_home/sysman/agent_download/ 10.2.0.1.0 directory
- cd oms_home/sysman/agent_download/10.2.0.1.0
- gunzip Linux_Grid_Control_agent_download_10_2_0_1.cpio.gz
- cpio [...]

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Installing CRS
If you are using RHEL or SUSE Linux, then you must install the cvuqdisk package. Without cvuqdisk the Cluster Verify Utility is unable to discover shared disks, and you receive the error message “Package cvuqdisk not installed�?. Install this rpm from the Oracle Clusterware Installation Disk.
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Where mere laptop users think CPUs should run at high frequency, to the Oracle community, a CPU is something else again. We refer, this time, to the Critical Patch Update, and not to your pieces of silicon-inside. Addicts of context-switches, hyperthreads and bus-speeds can click away now.
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A week ago I installed Grid Control Release 2 on a Sun Solaris 5.9 machine. I did not install under the oracle user but I used a different user. I will use this user on all servers for monitoring purposes. The installation was relatively easy. I only had to configure the agent on [...]

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Today, when I started up my notebook, I got a pleasant surprise : Jdeveloper 10g Service Update 2 is available for download. “So, what’s your point?”, I hear you say.
Well, this means that the Jheadstart team can, finally, release their *long awaited* 10.1.3 version. BTW, It seams that every release is a *long awaited* release [...]

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In our PoC MAA we describe the technical details of a RAC implementation on 10gR2.
When you are trying to implement RAC on a customer site you also want to have a project plan.
Christopher Haskins from McKesson Corporation wrote a nice project plan for a RAC implementation.
It can be found on OTN at:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/haskins-rac-project-guide.html
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The OCFS2 distributions comprises of two sets of RPM’s. Namely, the kernel module, and the tools module. Look at http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2 for all the information about OCFS2.
Download the appropriate RPM’s. For the kernel module, download the one that matches the
distribution, platform, kernel version and the kernel flavor (smp, hugemem, psmp, etc). For tools, simply match the [...]

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Had a little fun today debugging a problem we had in our application. One of my collegaes had created a beautiful screen using one of Steve Muench undocumented samples (#9 Dynamically Binding to Dynamically Created View Object, see link below).He created a View Object on the fly to display generic data. That View Object needed [...]

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It’s framework time. Again. We’ll probably never learn. And on one hand it’s good we do not learn, creativity is partly based on exploring the unlearned. But on the other hand building solutions for already solved problems seems a waste of time. What I’m talking about? New frameworks for solving the UI problem of our [...]

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