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Insert
your OracleAS’ CD to your machine CD drive.
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Run
the installer program. $ ./cdrom/cdrom0/runInstaller &
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Click
Next,
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If
this is the first time, then you must specify a directory for the
installer files. For example: /u01/oracle/oraInventory, and then
click OK.
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Specify
the UNIX group name. For example “dba” and then click Next.
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This
will prompt you with a message window to execute a shell script in
a different widow as the root user.
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Execute
the shell script. For example: $ ./u01/oracle/oraInventory/orainstRoot.sh
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In
the “Specify File
Location” screen, In the destination section, specify the
Oracle Home name (ex: myapp) and change the path (ex: /u01/oracle/myapp).
Click Next.
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In
the “Select a Product to
Install” screen, select OracleAS Infrastructure from the
list, and then click “Next.”
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In
the “Select Installation
Type” screen, select the “Identity Management and Metadata
Repository” option. Then click “Next.”
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Preview
the steps from the prompt screen and click “Next.”
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In
the “Confirm
Pre-Installation Requirements” screen, select the “Root
Privilege” check box to perform tasks that need root privileges
and then click “Next.”
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In
the “Select Configuration
Options” screen, select the components that you would like
to configure and automatically start at the end of the
installation.
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In
the “Specify Namespace in
Internet Directory” screen, select your namespace for OID
that contains details about users, groups, and Identity
management. If you don’t want to use the default option and want
to customize the OID DIT, then specify the DN in custom Namespace.
Click “Next.”
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In
the “Specify OCA
Distinguished Name” screen, enter the DN you want OracleAS
Certificate Authority to use. You can enter a typical set of DN
components, or you can specify a custom DN. Notice that to issue
digital certificates OracleAS Certificate Authority must have a
unique identifier In the form of a Distinguished Name (DN) base In
the X.500 standard.
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In
the “Specify OCA Key
Length” screen, select a key length of the certificate key
for OracleAS Certificate Authority to sign all digital
certificates issued. OracleAS Certificate Authority uses a key to
sign digital certificates. Longer key lengths provide stronger
security, but require more time to issue each new certificate.
Oracle recommends that you use at least a 2048-bit key length.
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In
the “Specify OCA
Administrator’s Password” screen, provide a password for
the OracleAS Certificate Authority administrator. The password
must be at least 8 characters long.
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In
the “Database
Identification” screen, enter the Global Database name and
SID. You database must be uniquely identified by a Global Database
name, typically of the form “name.domain.” Also, you database
may reference by at least one Oracle Instance which is uniquely
identified from any other instance on this computer by an Oracle
System Identifier (SID).
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In
the “Set SYS and SYSTEM
Password” screen, enter SYS and SYSTEM passwords. Then click
“Next.”
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In
the “Database File
Location” screen, change the location for example
/u02/oracle/myapp/oradata. For best database organization and
performance, Oracle recommends installing database files and
Oracle software on separate disks.
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In
the “Database character
Set” screen, select your database character set. The
database character set should be determined based In the number of
language groups which will be stored in your database. For
example, setting the database character set to Unicode (UTF8)
enables you to store multiple language groups and the default
character set for a database will be based In the language setting
of the operating system.
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In
the “Specify Instance
Name and ias_admin Password” screen, enter instance name and
ias_admin password. Notice that all OracleAS instances installed
on a host must have unique names. The hostname and domain name of
the host are appended to the instance name. Each OracleAS instance
has its own password, regardless of which user performed the
installation. Passwords are not shared across instances, even if
the instances were installed by the same user. By default, the
password must have a minimum of 5 alphanumeric characters, and at
least one of the characters must be alphanumeric.
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In
the “Summary OracleAS
Infrastructure” screen, you will see all the components that
will be installed. Check the components and then click Next to
proceed with the installation.
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In
the “Setup Privileges” prompt screen, you will be prompted to
execute the root.sh script as root user. For example:
./u01/oracle/myapp/root.sh.
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In
the “Configuration
Assistants” screen, shows the progress of various
configuration assistants. Wait for all the configuration
assistants to complete successfully, and then click Next. Check
the details’ log at /u01/oracle/oraInventory/logs/installActions2006-05-26_03-04-14PM.log.
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In
the “End of Installation”
screen, shows that the installation was completed. This screen
displays the URLs and ports to access the HTTP server and Oracle
Enterprise manager Application Server Control. Make sure to make a
note of it or go to /u01/oracle/install/portlist.ini to get the
list of used ports.