Oracle Business Accelerator for E-Business Suite (R12.x) Installation on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.

x or Redhat Enterprise Linux 5.x (32-Bit) [ID 1325058.1]

Modified:11-Aug-2011 Status:PUBLISHED Type:HOWTO Priority:3

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Goal Solution Install OBA certified Operating system Verify hostname and network settings Check disk space requirements Check Memory requirements Disable Secure Linux Install Development Tools Install required operating system patches and packages Check Software Requirements Set Kernel Parameters Modify the Number of Open File Descriptors Domain Name System (DNS) Resolver Parameters Create required users and groups Link to Motif library for Oracle Application Server 10.1.2 (on Oracle Linux 5 and RHEL 5 only) Post Install Steps References

Applies to:
Oracle Accelerators - Version: 12.X and later [Release: and later ] Linux x86 For Oracle E-Business Suite R12.1.3: - Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) 5 update 1 and higher - Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 update 1 and higher For Oracle E-Business Suite R12.1.1 and 12.1.2: - Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) 5 update 1, 2 and 3 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 update 1, 2 and 3

Goal
Step By Step Instructions to Install Oracle Business Accelerator for Oracle E-Business Suite on certified Operating System. Follow the steps listed in sequence in this Note for a successful installation

Solution

Installation Steps Summary:

Install OBA certified Operating system

Certified Operating Systems and Kernels Operating System Oracle Linux 5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES 5 Kernel 2.6.18-8.el5PAE 2.6.18-8.el5PAE

To determine kernel name and version, use the command:

bash-3.2# uname -r 2.6.18-128.4.1.0.1.el5PAE bash-3.2# uname -a Linux aisdell51 2.6.18-128.4.1.0.1.el5PAE #1 SMP Tue Aug 4 15:32:24 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux bash-3.2# cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.3 (Tikanga)
Verify hostname and network settings
Verify host name settings:

a. Verify that the /etc/hosts file is formatted as follows: <Do not remove 127.0.0.1 entry> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost [ip_address] [node_name].[domain_name] [node_name] b. Verify that the /etc/sysconfig/network file is formatted as follows: HOSTNAME=[node_name].[domain_name] c. If the /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/network file exists, remove it. d. If you changed any files in the previous steps, restart the system.
Check disk space requirements
With the help of System administrator prepare mount points for application Techstack and database. Grant "read,write: permissions to new mount points

Example: /u01/apps - application Tier /u01/db - database Tier

A fresh install of OBA requires 150GB of free disk space and 6GB of Memory (RAM)

[root@obatrng apps]# df -h . Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/xvdb 50G 1G 49G 1% /u01/apps [root@obatrng db]# df -h . Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/xvdc 100G 1G 99G 1% /u01/db
Grant Permissions on apps and db mount points Note: In a multiuser OBA installation, for a successful configuration tool run, db techstack OS owner/user should have read,write permissions on apps mount point $XXSE/subdirectories.

[root@obatrng db]# ls -l /u01 drwxrwxrwx 14 applmgr oaa 4096 May 23 21:56 apps drwxr-xr-x 10 oracle dba 4096 May 23 21:56 db
Check Memory requirements
Minimum required memory is 6GB

cat /proc/meminfo | grep MemTotal 6291456kb

Disable Secure Linux

[root@obatrng db]# cat /etc/selinux/config SELINUX=disabled

Install Development Tools
Install the development tools from operating system install media

X Window System GNOME Desktop Environment Editors Graphical Internet

Server Configuration Tools Development Tools Administration Tools System Tools vncserver
Install required operating system patches and packages
Query the Operating System Patches/Packages

[root@obatrng db]# rpm -qa | egrep 'bintuils|compatglibc|gcc|glibc|kernel-headers|libgcc|libXp|libaio| libgomp|sysstat|compat-libstdc++|elfutils|unixODBC|xorgx11|openmotif'

The following table lists the required packages and the minimum required versions for Linux (32-bit).

Update 1 (5.1) or higher of Oracle Linux 5 is required Update 1 (5.1) or higher of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5 is required
The following i386 packages are not part of the OS distribution media and must be downloaded separately (from http://oss.oracle.com/projects/compat-oracle/files/Enterprise_Linux for both Oracle Linux 5 and RHEL 5) and installed manually:

openmotif21-2.1.30-11.EL5.i3861 xorg-x11-libs-compat-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.1.i386 For Update 1 or 2: binutils-2.17.50.0.6-6.0.1.i3862 For Update 3: binutils-2.17.50.0.6-9.0.1.i3862

The following i386 packages must be installed from the Oracle Linux 5 or RHEL 5 distribution media:

compat-glibc-2.3.4-2.26 compat-glibc-headers-2.3.4-2.26 gcc-4.1.2-14.el5 gcc-c++-4.1.2-14.el5 glibc-2.5-123 glibc-common-2.5-123 glibc-devel-2.5-12 glibc-headers-2.5-12 kernel-headers-2.6.18-128.el5 libgcc-4.1.2-14.el53

libstdc++-devel-4.1.2-14.el5 libstdc++-4.1.2-14.el53 make-3.81-1.13 gdbm-1.8.0-26.2.13 libXp-1.0.0-8.1.el5 libaio-0.3.106-3.23 libgomp-4.1.2-14.el5 sysstat-7.0.0-3.el5 compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-138 compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61
Additionally, the following RPMs are required for an 11gR1 Database (which is bundled with the 12.1.1 release) on the database tier:

elfutils-libelf-devel-0.125 elfutils-libelf-devel-static-0.125 libaio-devel-0.3.106 unixODBC-2.2.11 unixODBC-devel-2.2.11 kernel-headers-2.6 *After installing these patches, run ldconfig -v. **The openmotif package version numbering must be 2.1.30. For example, openmotif-2.2.3-10.RHEL4.5 is not supported.
Check Software Requirements
The following maintenance tools must be installed and their locations specified both in the PATH of the account that runs Rapid Install and in the PATH of the accounts that will own the database tier and application tier file systems.

ar gcc g++ ld ld ksh make X Display Server

To Check system tools in the PATH use

$oracle> which ar $oracle> whereis gcc $oracle> echo $PATH

Set Kernel Parameters

Modify the System Configuration and Kernel settings Note: If the current value for any parameter is higher than the value listed in the following table, then do not change the value of that parameter.

/etc/sysctl.conf file has kernel parameters # cat /etc/sysctl.conf kernel.shmall = 2097152 kernel.shmmax = 2147483648 kernel.shmmni = 4096 kernel.sem = 256 32000 100 142 fs.file-max = 6553600 net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 65000 net.core.rmem_default=262144 net.core.rmem_max=262144 net.core.wmem_default=262144 net.core.wmem_max=4194304
Apply the New Settings

# /sbin/sysctl -p
Modify the Number of Open File Descriptors
Add the following lines to the /etc/security/limits.conf file:

* * * *

hard soft hard soft

nofile 65535 nofile 4096 nproc 16384 nproc 2047

Domain Name System (DNS) Resolver Parameters

Two Domain Name System (DNS) resolver parameters (timeout and attempts) are set by default to low values when the operating system is installed. These low values may cause attempted network connections to an Oracle database to fail. If this happens, add or update the following entries to these minimum settings in the /etc/resolv.conf file on each server node: Add the following lines to the /etc/resolv.conf file:

options attempts:5 options timeout:15

Create required users and groups
For a multiuser installation, create group dba and two users, oracle and applmgr. The oracle users will be the owner of the database tier directories and services, while the applmgr user will be the owner of the applications tier. Use the following commands to create users and group:

$ # # #

su - root groupadd dba useradd -g dba -d /home/oracle oracle useradd -g dba -d /home/applmgr applmgr

Link to Motif library for Oracle Application Server 10.1.2 (on Oracle Linux 5 and RHEL 5 only)
Perform the following command (as root on your system) to update a required link to a Motif library prior to relinking or patching the 10.1.2 Application Server Oracle Home:

# unlink /usr/lib/libXtst.so.6 # ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/libXtst.so.6.1 /usr/lib/libXtst.so.6

Post Install Steps
After setting up link to libXtst.so.6, find the current display setting value from $CONTEXT_FILE as applmgr user. Ensure DISPLAY is set properly and running on the server other than port 0 Find s_display value from application tier CONTEXT_FILE Example: $ applmgr] grep s_display $CONTEXT_FILE <DISPLAY oa_var="s_display" osd="unix">prod54:10.0</DISPLAY>

export DISPLAY=<s_display value> as oracle operating system user Run xdpyinfo command as oracle operating system user and ensure command executes successfully.

If any errors are encountered while running xdpyinfo , restart the vnc pointed by s_display value as the owner of the vnc and run xhost + command. Execute xdpyinfo as oracle operating system user again and ensure xdpyinfo command executes successfully.

References
NOTE:1192044.1 - Oracle Business Accelerator Setup Loader Utility common install issues NOTE:761564.1 - Oracle E-Business Suite Installation and Upgrade Notes Release 12 (12.1.1) for Linux x86 NOTE:761566.1 - Oracle E-Business Suite Installation and Upgrade Notes Release 12 (12.1.1) for Linux x86-64

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