Is XE 11g ready to go?

Hi,
Is XE 11g Ready to go?
Any good news from it?
Peter

Oh, ok, not available until the 11g R2.
Peter

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Hi,
Our company is planning to upgrade for 11G and we have lots of queries for which i've been in touch with Oracle.
At the same time, i'm gathering users views who are presenly runnning 11g on Production enviornments. I would greatly appreciate your feedback about the 11g database based on your expeirience.
Do you think 11g is ready for production evn. or we should wait for sometime to get it matured, inorder make our productoin enviornment less error prone? Every company has their own way of handling production database and its issues, but a general view would be helpful.
As per my research, 11g is only available for windows & Linux? We were looking for Solaris version for testing, any comments?
Any other comments regarding 11g on production would help?
Thank you
Ratheesh

At the same time, i'm gathering users views who are
presenly runnning 11g on Production enviornments. I
would greatly appreciate your feedback about the 11g
database based on your expeirience. First 11g release was just two months ago, for only one platform (Linux x86 32-bit). How many of the user base, do you think, are early adopters and how many of those have had this new version running for a while in production? From what I've heard from around here, users/customers/vendors are currently moving from 9.2 to 10.2!
Do you think 11g is ready for production evn. or we
should wait for sometime to get it matured, inorder
make our productoin enviornment less error prone?That is your decision to make. You should weigh in the costs/risks for your business, based on the real, defined needs or requirements for migrating to 11g (replacing a major piece of the infrastructure, with complex dependencies, should not be an easy decision).
We were looking for Solaris version for
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Are the older MacBook 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 802.11N ready?

I'm looking into buying an "older" or "last generation" MacBook 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo.
I seem to remember reading that even though it's 802.11g ready, there is a firmware update to bring it up to 802.11N...True or False?
If True were would I find that info?
Many Thanks!

Not sure if the older models have n or not...
But if they don't you can purchase the "n" function from the apple store:
http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/AppleStore.woa/wa/RSLID?mco=36A 3C0EC&nplm=D4141ZM/A

Oracle validated package is not available for OEL5

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Available now:
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Unsure with airport and network

Hi all,
Basically my powerbook never came with an airport card (i'm sure it wasn't supposed to?), and when I go home I want to connect to my parents wireless network.
I'm unsure of what I need to buy, for instance would an airport extreme card work with my mac:
Machine Name: PowerBook G4 12"
Machine Model: PowerBook6,1
CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (3.3)
Number Of CPUs: 1
CPU Speed: 867 MHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 256 KB
Memory: 256 MB
Bus Speed: 133 MHz
Boot ROM Version: 4.5.5f4
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Hi there.
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Here are your options.
1) Get the darn card already!! =) It's only $29.99 at the Apple Store for a refurbished product.
Refurbished Airport Extreme Card: $29.99-- Apple Store
2) You can go third party, but at this point, you'll spend MORE money that that $29.99 refurb card from Apple. $35 on eBay if you don't get one from Apple in time. The only ones that I know work with computers that don't have a card slot are from:
Hawking Wireless, known for their under-publicized Mac compatibility (though not every product they make is compatible, just a select few)
The best of the best is MacSense, who make various Mac products not usually found at the big places like Apple, Best Buy, or CompUSA. They are found at Fry's Electronics and online resellers (sometimes, "mom and pop" Mac shops).
You'll want either of the AeroPad lines, which have USB 2.0 connectivity. (Unless you have a 15-inch PowerBook and posted on the 12-inch forum by mistake. Then you have some other choices out there, but you'll have to do some research as to which cards work, such as Belkin, Buffalo, etc.).
**Again, Apple themselves has it refurbished for only $29.99 Go for it already!
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OBIEE 11g opmnctl services cannot start (ping failed in ready callback)

Hi,
The BI server is up and running
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Hi,
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Is WebCenter Site 11g OSGI ready?

Hi there,
We are running WCS 11g on top of WebLogic 11g R2 and we would like to have different versions of the same library running together, one for WCS itself and other to some Java code we are developing (which will be part of the new website).
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Issue in configuring Standby Database from Active database in 11g by RMAN

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Hi All,
I am facing issue in creating the standby database from Active database using RMAN and getting the below issue after i executed the duplicate command.
Version of Database:11g(11.2.0.1.0)
Operating System:Linux 5
Error:
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-03002: failure of Duplicate Db command at 12/21/2012 17:26:52
RMAN-03015: error occurred in stored script Memory Script
RMAN-04006: error from auxiliary database: ORA-12514: TNS:listener does not currently know of service requested in connect descriptor
Primary Database Entries:
Tnsentry:
SONYPRD =
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = 192.168.20.131)(PORT = 1521))
(CONNECT_DATA =
(SERVER = DEDICATED)
(SERVICE_NAME = sonyprd.localdomain)(UR=A)
SONYPRDSTBY =
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = 192.168.20.132)(PORT = 1521))
(CONNECT_DATA =
(SERVER = DEDICATED)
(SERVICE_NAME = sonyprdstby)(UR=A)
Listner Entry:
SID_LIST_SONYPRD =
(SID_LIST =
(SID_DESC =
(SID_NAME = PLSExtproc)
(ORACLE_HOME = /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1)
(PROGRAM = extproc)
(SID_DESC =
(SID_NAME = SONYPRD)
(GLOBAL_DBNAME = SONYPRD)
Auxiliary Details:
Tns Entry:
SONYPRD =
(DESCRIPTION =
# (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = oracle11g.localdomain)(PORT = 1521))
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = 192.168.20.131)(PORT = 1521))
(CONNECT_DATA =
(SERVER = DEDICATED)
(SERVICE_NAME = sonyprd.localdomain)
SONYPRDSTBY =
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = 192.168.20.132)(PORT = 1521))
(CONNECT_DATA =
(SERVER = DEDICATED)
(SERVICE_NAME = sonyprdstby)(UR=A)
Listener Entry in auxiliary:
SID_LIST_SONYPRDSTBY =
(SID_LIST =
(SID_DESC =
(GLOBAL_DBNAME = SONYPRDSTBY)
(ORACLE_HOME = /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1)
(SID_NAME = SONYPRDSTBY)
TNSPING from Primary DB:
[oracle@oracle11g ~]$ tnsping sonyprdstby
TNS Ping Utility for Linux: Version 11.2.0.1.0 - Production on 21-DEC-2012 17:39:28
Copyright (c) 1997, 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Used parameter files:
/u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1/network/admin/sqlnet.ora
Used TNSNAMES adapter to resolve the alias
Attempting to contact (DESCRIPTION = (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = 192.168.20.132)(PORT = 1521)) (CONNECT_DATA = (SERVER = DEDICATED) (SERVICE_NAME = sonyprdstby)(UR=A)))
OK (0 msec)
TNSPING from Auxuliary server
[oracle@oracle11gstby ~]$ tnsping sonyprd
TNS Ping Utility for Linux: Version 11.2.0.1.0 - Production on 21-DEC-2012 17:40:19
Copyright (c) 1997, 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Used parameter files:
Used TNSNAMES adapter to resolve the alias
Attempting to contact (DESCRIPTION = (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = 192.168.20.131)(PORT = 1521)) (CONNECT_DATA = (SERVER = DEDICATED) (SERVICE_NAME = sonyprd.localdomain)))
OK (10 msec)
Script Used for duplicate:
run {
allocate channel prmy1 type disk;
allocate channel prmy2 type disk;
allocate channel prmy3 type disk;
allocate channel prmy4 type disk;
allocate auxiliary channel stby type disk;
duplicate target database for standby from active database
spfile
parameter_value_convert 'sonyprd','sonyprdstby'
set db_unique_name='sonyprdstby'
set db_file_name_convert='/sonyprd/','/sonyprdstby/'
set log_file_name_convert='/sonyprd/','/sonyprdstby/'
set control_files='/u01/app/oracle/oradata/control01.ctl'
set log_archive_max_processes='5'
set fal_client='sonyprdstby'
set fal_server='sonyprd'
set standby_file_management='AUTO'
set log_archive_config='dg_config=(sonyprd,sonyprdstby)'
set log_archive_dest_2='service=sonyprd ASYNC valid_for=(ONLINE_LOGFILE,PRIMARY_ROLE) db_unique_name=sonyprd'
Tried the script from both Primary and auxiliary but no luck
[oracle@oracle11gstby admin]$ rman target sys/welcome@sonyprd auxiliary sys/*****@sonyprdstby
Recovery Manager: Release 11.2.0.1.0 - Production on Fri Dec 21 17:26:24 2012
Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
connected to target database: SONYPRD (DBID=3131093559)
connected to auxiliary database: SONYPRD (not mounted)
Listener Status from primary:
[oracle@oracle11g ~]$ lsnrctl status
LSNRCTL for Linux: Version 11.2.0.1.0 - Production on 21-DEC-2012 18:08:56
Copyright (c) 1991, 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connecting to (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=)(PORT=1521))
STATUS of the LISTENER
Alias LISTENER
Version TNSLSNR for Linux: Version 11.2.0.1.0 - Production
Start Date 20-DEC-2012 17:42:17
Uptime 1 days 0 hr. 26 min. 41 sec
Trace Level off
Security ON: Local OS Authentication
SNMP OFF
Listener Parameter File /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1/network/admin/listener.ora
Listener Log File /u01/app/oracle/diag/tnslsnr/localhost/listener/alert/log.xml
Listening Endpoints Summary...
(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=ipc)(KEY=EXTPROC1521)))
(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=localhost.localdomain)(PORT=1521)))
Services Summary...
Service "sonyprd.localdomain" has 1 instance(s).
Instance "sonyprd", status READY, has 1 handler(s) for this service...
Service "sonyprdXDB.localdomain" has 1 instance(s).
Instance "sonyprd", status READY, has 1 handler(s) for this service...
The command completed successfully
Listener Status from Standby when database bring to Nomount state:
[oracle@oracle11gstby admin]$ lsnrctl status
LSNRCTL for Linux: Version 11.2.0.1.0 - Production on 21-DEC-2012 18:11:54
Copyright (c) 1991, 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connecting to (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=)(PORT=1521))
STATUS of the LISTENER
Alias LISTENER
Version TNSLSNR for Linux: Version 11.2.0.1.0 - Production
Start Date 21-DEC-2012 16:13:47
Uptime 0 days 1 hr. 58 min. 6 sec
Trace Level off
Security ON: Local OS Authentication
SNMP OFF
Listener Parameter File /u01/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/dbhome_1/network/admin/listener.ora
Listener Log File /u01/app/oracle/diag/tnslsnr/oracle11gstby/listener/alert/log.xml
Listening Endpoints Summary...
(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=oracle11gstby)(PORT=1521)))
Services Summary...
Service "sonyprdstby" has 1 instance(s).
Instance "sonyprdstby", status BLOCKED, has 1 handler(s) for this service...
The command completed successfully
Please provide any work arounds to proceed further in creating the standby database.
Thanks,
Ram.
Edited by: 895188 on Dec 21, 2012 5:50 PM
Edited by: 895188 on Dec 21, 2012 6:09 PM
Edited by: 895188 on Dec 21, 2012 6:22 PM

Hello;
Script has to be run from auxiliary.
Great details, but what I don't see is how you connect in RMAN.
Example
Start RMAN
$ORACLE_HOME/bin/rman target=sys/@recover2 auxiliary=sys/@reclone
Recovery Manager: Release 11.2.0.2.0 - Production on Wed Feb 22 14:50:31 2012
Copyright (c) 1982, 2009, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
connected to target database: RECOVER2 (DBID=3806912436)
connected to auxiliary database: RECLONE (not mounted)Nothing in your tnsnames or listener jumps out as wrong. I copied them into my text editor and compared against my working ones.
Generally for active duplication I start the future standby on a pfile NOMOUNT.
Auxiliary Instance Initialization Parameters Needed :
DB_NAME
CONTROL_FILES
DB_BLOCK_SIZE
( add extra parameters like DB_FILE_NAME_CONVERT and LOG_FILE_NAME_CONVERT instead of using the SET command - clean up standby spfile right after duplication )
Then start RMAN and finally run a single line duplication command.
$ORACLE_HOME/bin/rman target=sys/@primary auxiliary=sys/@standby
RMAN>duplicate target database for standby from active database NOFILENAMECHECK;Best Regards
mseberg

Installation of Oracle Database 11g R2 Grid is failing

Hi Guys,
I've been trying to install Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11g R2 (11.2.0.2) for a long time, but, failing every time. This is what I've tried so far:
Things being used:
OS: Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.2
VM Software: VMware Workstation 7.1 and VMware Server 2
Oracle SW: Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11g R2 - 11.2.0.2
VMs: Three RAC nodes - rac1, rac2, rac3
I've tried to follow the link given below to on both VMware Server and VMware Workstation all goes well until it asks us to run two scripts as root.
http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/11g/OracleDB11gR2RACInstallationOnOEL5UsingVMwareServer2.php
The script "/u01/app/grid/11.2.0/root.sh" completes successfully on the first node, rac1, however, it fails on the rest of them with the following error:
CRS-4402: The CSS daemon was started in exclusive mode but found an active CSS daemon on node rac1, number 1, and is terminating
An active cluster was found during exclusive startup, restarting to join the cluster
Start of resource "ora.crsd" failed
CRS-2800: Cannot start resource 'ora.asm' as it is already in the INTERMEDIATE state on server 'rac2'
CRS-4000: Command Start failed, or completed with errors.
Failed to start Oracle Clusterware stack
Failed to start Cluster Ready Services at /u01/app/grid/11.2.0/crs/install/crsconfig_lib.pm line 1065.
/u01/app/grid/11.2.0/perl/bin/perl -I/u01/app/grid/11.2.0/perl/lib -I/u01/app/grid/11.2.0/crs/install /u01/app/grid/11.2.0/crs/install/rootcrs.pl execution failed
Instead of using shared disk as "independent-persistent" disks I've also used openfiler 2.99 to allocate storage by following below given link. With that the issue was that the iSCSI disks were not persistent and no solution worked to fix that.
http://www.jobacle.nl/?p=957
I also tried to use OCFS2 for OCR and VOTING disks, the installation completes successfully, however, the asm instance, registry, and few other services doesn't start. When I tried to reboot all the machines not a single oracle service came up. The crs just died because of OCR and VOTING disks.
I've tried so many things but nothing works.
My last installation was as follows:
==============================
VM: rac1, rac2, rac3
Config of each VM:
Memory: 4GB
Processors: 4
HDD (SCSI): 25GB
/dev/sda1 > /boot (100M)
/dev/sda2 > swap (8G)
/dev/sda3 > / (17G)HDD2 (SCSI): 60GB (Persistent)
/dev/sdb1 > ocrvot1 (2G)
/dev/sdb2 > ocrvot2 (2G)
/dev/sdb3 > ocrvot3 (2G)
/dev/sdb4 > data1 (10G)
/dev/sdb5 > data2 (10G)
/dev/sdb6 > data3 (10G)
/dev/sdb7 > fast1 (10G)
/dev/sdb8 > fast2 (10G)HDD3 (SCSI): 60GB (Persistent)
/dev/sdc1 > ocrvot4 (2G)
/dev/sdc2 > ocrvot5 (2G)
/dev/sdc3 > ocrvot6 (2G)
/dev/sdc4 > data4 (10G)
/dev/sdc5 > data5 (10G)
/dev/sdc6 > fast3 (10G)
/dev/sdc7 > fast4 (10G)
/dev/sdc8 > fast5 (10G)NIC 1: Bridge
NIC 2: Bridge
Pre-requisites completed.
ASM Disks labeled.
runcluvfy succeeds for all nodes
All nodes can see and write to the ASM disks.During the installation of GI 11.2.0.2 at prerequisites test got one error:
PRVF-5449 : Check of Voting Disk location "ORCL:(ORCL:)" failed
However, according to Metalink, note ID 1267569.1, its a bug and its going to be fixed in 11.2.0.3. The note gives a workaround which is the manual testing of the ASM disks from all the nodes and as long it succeeds we can ignore the error. Therefore, I just ignored the error and carried on. When prompted I executed the first script, "/u01/app/oraInventory/orainstRoot.sh ", on all the nodes successfully. The second script, "/u01/app/grid/11.2.0/root.sh" completes successfully on rac1, however, fails on the rest of the nodes.
On rac2 the alertrac2.log contains the following errors:
CRS-5019:All OCR locations are on ASM disk groups [OCRVOT], and none of these disk groups are mounted. Details are at "(:CLSN00100:)" in "/u01/app/grid/11.2.0/log/rac2/agent/ohasd/oraagent_oracle/oraagent_oracle.log".and oraagent_oracle.log contains the following errors:
2011-07-15 22:53:47.748: [ora.asm][1090414912] {0:0:215} [check] checkCrsStat 2 CLSCRS_STAT ret: 1842011-07-15 22:53:47.748: [ora.asm][1090414912] {0:0:215} [check] clsnUtils::error Exception type=2 string=
2011-07-15 22:53:47.748: [ora.asm][1090414912] {0:0:215} [check] AsmAgent::checkCbk: Exception UserErrorException
2011-07-15 22:53:47.748: [ora.asm][1090414912] {0:0:215} [check]
2011-07-15 22:53:47.748: [ora.asm][1090414912] {0:0:215} [check] InstAgent::check checkCounter 0 prev clsagfw_status 1 current clsagfw_status 4
2011-07-15 22:53:48.599: [ AGFW][1117755712] {0:0:166} Agent received the message: AGENT_HB[Engine] ID 12293:1089
2011-07-15 22:53:48.755: [ COMMCRS][1128261952]clsc_connect: (0x10c5d5b0) no listener at (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=IPC)(KEY=CRSD_UI_SOCKET))
On rac1:
========
[root@rac1 bin]# ./crsctl status res -t
NAME TARGET STATE SERVER STATE_DETAILS
Local Resources
ora.OCRVOT.dg
ONLINE ONLINE rac1
ora.asm
ONLINE ONLINE rac1 Started
ora.gsd
OFFLINE OFFLINE rac1
ora.net1.network
ONLINE ONLINE rac1
ora.ons
ONLINE ONLINE rac1
ora.registry.acfs
ONLINE ONLINE rac1
Cluster Resources
ora.LISTENER_SCAN1.lsnr
1 ONLINE ONLINE rac1
ora.cvu
1 ONLINE ONLINE rac1
ora.oc4j
1 ONLINE ONLINE rac1
ora.rac1.vip
1 ONLINE ONLINE rac1
ora.scan1.vip
1 ONLINE ONLINE rac1
On rac2
========
The alert+ASM2.log has the following errors:
SQL> ALTER DISKGROUP ALL MOUNT /* asm agent call crs *//* {0:0:215} */
NOTE: Diskgroup used for Voting files is:
OCRVOT
Diskgroup used for OCR is:OCRVOT
NOTE: cache registered group OCRVOT number=1 incarn=0xee7b8cf5
NOTE: cache began mount (not first) of group OCRVOT number=1 incarn=0xee7b8cf5
NOTE: Loaded library: /opt/oracle/extapi/64/asm/orcl/1/libasm.so
NOTE: Assigning number (1,0) to disk (ORCL:OCRVOT1)
NOTE: Assigning number (1,1) to disk (ORCL:OCRVOT2)
NOTE: Assigning number (1,2) to disk (ORCL:OCRVOT3)
NOTE: Assigning number (1,3) to disk (ORCL:OCRVOT4)
NOTE: Assigning number (1,4) to disk (ORCL:OCRVOT5)
NOTE: Assigning number (1,5) to disk (ORCL:OCRVOT6)
ERROR: no PST quorum in group: required 3, found 0
NOTE: cache dismounting (clean) group 1/0xEE7B8CF5 (OCRVOT)
NOTE: dbwr not being msg'd to dismount
NOTE: lgwr not being msg'd to dismount
NOTE: cache dismounted group 1/0xEE7B8CF5 (OCRVOT)
NOTE: cache ending mount (fail) of group OCRVOT number=1 incarn=0xee7b8cf5
NOTE: cache deleting context for group OCRVOT 1/0xee7b8cf5
GMON dismounting group 1 at 2 for pid 23, osid 19831
NOTE: Disk in mode 0x8 marked for de-assignment
NOTE: Disk in mode 0x8 marked for de-assignment
NOTE: Disk in mode 0x8 marked for de-assignment
NOTE: Disk in mode 0x8 marked for de-assignment
NOTE: Disk in mode 0x8 marked for de-assignment
NOTE: Disk in mode 0x8 marked for de-assignment
ERROR: diskgroup OCRVOT was not mounted
WARNING: Disk Group OCRVOT containing configured OCR is not mounted
WARNING: Disk Group OCRVOT containing voting files is not mounted
ORA-15032: not all alterations performed
ORA-15017: diskgroup "OCRVOT" cannot be mounted
ORA-15063: ASM discovered an insufficient number of disks for diskgroup "OCRVOT"
ERROR: ALTER DISKGROUP ALL MOUNT /* asm agent call crs *//* {0:0:215} */
SQL> ALTER DISKGROUP ALL ENABLE VOLUME ALL /* asm agent *//* {0:0:215} */
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Still miss those days when Oracle used to release easy to use and easy to install softwares, but now thats not the case. Grid Infrastructure, Grid Control, and other similar technologies have become so complicated and difficult for us to install on VMs and play with them.
Kashif.
Updates:
Metalink doc, Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11.2.0.2 Installation or Upgrade may fail due to Multicasting Requirement [ID 1212703.1], shows similar errors that I've in my log files. Therefore, I thought Multicast could be the culprit. Nonetheless:
[oracle@rac3 mcasttest]$ ./mcasttest.pl -n rac1,rac2,rac3 -i eth0,eth1
########### Setup for node rac1 ##########
Checking node access 'rac1'
Checking node login 'rac1'
Checking/Creating Directory /tmp/mcasttest for binary on node 'rac1'
Distributing mcast2 binary to node 'rac1'
########### Setup for node rac2 ##########
Checking node access 'rac2'
Checking node login 'rac2'
Checking/Creating Directory /tmp/mcasttest for binary on node 'rac2'
Distributing mcast2 binary to node 'rac2'
########### Setup for node rac3 ##########
Checking node access 'rac3'
Checking node login 'rac3'
Checking/Creating Directory /tmp/mcasttest for binary on node 'rac3'
Distributing mcast2 binary to node 'rac3'
########### testing Multicast on all nodes ##########
Test for Multicast address 230.0.1.0
Jul 15 23:57:30 | Multicast Succeeded for eth0 using address 230.0.1.0:42000
Jul 15 23:57:31 | Multicast Succeeded for eth1 using address 230.0.1.0:42001
Test for Multicast address 224.0.0.251
Jul 15 23:57:32 | Multicast Succeeded for eth0 using address 224.0.0.251:42002
Jul 15 23:57:33 | Multicast Succeeded for eth1 using address 224.0.0.251:42003
Hence, the issue is not multicast related.
Kashif.
Edited by: Kashif Khan on Jul 15, 2011 9:00 PM

Kashif Khan wrote:
THE ISSUE HAS BEEN RESOLVED!
With the same configuration the installation completed successfully on Oracle's Virtual Box. I had a lot of issues while installing Grid Control 11g on VMware, but, that got installed successfully as well on the Virtual Box.
Hence proved, VMware is no good for Oracle virtualization any more.
Hi,
Good if you have it resolved. Now could you please mark the thread as answered to avoid confusion
Cheers

Oracle database 11g release 2 installation problem on windows 7 (64-bit)

First of all my windows is not genuine, but on my friend's desktop oracle download and installation worked fine, he chose "create and configure database" options, and it works very well on his desktop, though his windows is also illegitimate. In my case, when I select "Create and configure database" option and pressed 'next",
(Go to my blog to see it with snapshots: Computer Science: Oracle database 11g release 2 installation problem on windows 7 (64-bit))
it asks to select class, I select "Desktop class" and pressed "next". The moment I pressed "next", the whole setup thing disappeared like it was never started. I searched for all possible reasons for why its not getting installed on my laptop, I used registry cleaner s/w, deleted 25 GB of data to create free space if it were the problem, increased the virtual memory to increase the space for RAM, I did almost everything to get this setup working, but I found no success with the "Create and Configure database" option
and
then
I chose a "database software only" option and chose to store in a folder w/o spaces. This way, I got database s/w only and then later I found "Database configuration Assistant (DBCA)" from windows START button and clicked to create and configure database manually. The steps are pretty much interactive and doesn't involve much brainstorming.
The values I filled for
1) Global Database Name : orcl
2) System Identifier : orcl
3) I chose common password for both SYS and SYSTEM
4) while on Enterprise Manager Configuration step, It asked me to create and configure listener in oracle home, so for that too, I typed "netca" in windows START menu and clicked it. There I added a listener.
5) I chose a Storage area which was the Oracle-home itself i.e. where our installation files goes , in my case it is : C:\oracle_base\product\11.2.0\dbhome_1\oradata
6) Then after few more nitty-gritty clicks, we are set to go !
Finally to write SQL code and to create your first TABLE , type "sqlplus" in windows "START" menu and click it when it appears. A command-prompt like window appears , which will ask you for username and password, so here they are :
Username : sys/ as sysdba
Password : (its the one you created in step 3 stated above )
After this you are ready to write your first SQL command.

Is this your solution to your original post at Oracle database 11g release 2 installation on windows 7 (64-bit) ?
Pl be aware that you should not create any custom objects in SYS or SYSTEM schema - you should create any such objects in a separate custom schema.
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OBIEE 11g Analysis : Change Report edit link to go Criteria tab instead

How to change the setting to have the "Edit" to go to criteria tab instead of Results (Compond view)?
Many time we may need to change the filter from default setting and then run the report or if the filter is setup to be used from a dashboard (using "Prompted") option...then the report attmpts to run the report without values...
And I have not checked to see if the server cancels the query to the database when the user navigates to the Critetia Page as there is no cancel link...(as it displayed in 10g...)
FYI, We have just started using OBIEE 11g in a dev environment, we are in the process of configuring the new env to get ready for prod...
Thanks
Sundar

Hi,
By default, the Action request is sent to results tab. You can modify it by editing the dashboardeditor.js file found in /app/res/b_mozilla/dashboards folder.
Steps:
1) Open dashboardeditor.js file.
2) Search for the function "DUIModifyReport".
3) Inside the function you will find that ***"&Action=results&Path="****
4) Change results to criteria. In other words, the changed code will look like
****"&Action=criteria&Path="*****
5) Re-deploy the code and bounce the services.
-- Remember, this will affect for entire dashboard, and for all users. ---
If you want to avoid step (5), then manually copy the changed dashboardeditor.js to /user_projects/domains/BIfoundation/servers/bi_server1/tmp/_WL_user/analytics_11.1.1/$RANDOMFOLDERNAME$/war/res/b_mozilla/dashboards and bounce the services.
Voila - now when you edit the analysis through dashboard, it will take you to the criteria tab, instead of results tab.
Please award points, if it helps.
Regards,
Bharath

Root.sh problem grid infrastructure 11g

Hi all,
I am about to install grid infrastructure 11g (11.2.0.1) on RHEL5.5 64 bit where i use VMware platform which is VMware server 2 on Windows2008 Server. I am pretty sure that i followed the installation instructions but i cannot get rid of the following error which occurs while i am running the root.sh.
You can also find errors in the oraagent_oracle.log and orarootagent_root.log at the end of the post. There are communication errors at the end of the both log files but they dont give any clue to me or my knowledge is not enough to understand why crs is complaining.
maybe this is a known issue or somebody can understands what grid infrastructure is angry about. thanks for any effort.
[root@eprhel5 grid]# ./root.sh
Running Oracle 11g root.sh script...
The following environment variables are set as:
    ORACLE_OWNER= oracle
    ORACLE_HOME= /oracle/product/grid
Enter the full pathname of the local bin directory: [/usr/local/bin]:
The file "dbhome" already exists in /usr/local/bin. Overwrite it? (y/n)
[n]: y
   Copying dbhome to /usr/local/bin ...
The file "oraenv" already exists in /usr/local/bin. Overwrite it? (y/n)
[n]: y
   Copying oraenv to /usr/local/bin ...
The file "coraenv" already exists in /usr/local/bin. Overwrite it? (y/n)
[n]: y
   Copying coraenv to /usr/local/bin ...
Creating /etc/oratab file...
Entries will be added to the /etc/oratab file as needed by
Database Configuration Assistant when a database is created
Finished running generic part of root.sh script.
Now product-specific root actions will be performed.
2011-01-11 13:33:06: Parsing the host name
2011-01-11 13:33:06: Checking for super user privileges
2011-01-11 13:33:06: User has super user privileges
Using configuration parameter file: /oracle/product/grid/crs/install/crsconfig_params
Creating trace directory
LOCAL ADD MODE
Creating OCR keys for user 'root', privgrp 'root'..
Operation successful.
root wallet
root wallet cert
root cert export
peer wallet
profile reader wallet
pa wallet
peer wallet keys
pa wallet keys
peer cert request
pa cert request
peer cert
pa cert
peer root cert TP
profile reader root cert TP
pa root cert TP
peer pa cert TP
pa peer cert TP
profile reader pa cert TP
profile reader peer cert TP
peer user cert
pa user cert
Adding daemon to inittab
CRS-4123: Oracle High Availability Services has been started.
ohasd is starting
CRS-2672: Attempting to start 'ora.gipcd' on 'eprhel5'
CRS-2672: Attempting to start 'ora.mdnsd' on 'eprhel5'
CRS-2676: Start of 'ora.mdnsd' on 'eprhel5' succeeded
CRS-2676: Start of 'ora.gipcd' on 'eprhel5' succeeded
CRS-2672: Attempting to start 'ora.gpnpd' on 'eprhel5'
CRS-2676: Start of 'ora.gpnpd' on 'eprhel5' succeeded
CRS-2672: Attempting to start 'ora.cssdmonitor' on 'eprhel5'
CRS-2676: Start of 'ora.cssdmonitor' on 'eprhel5' succeeded
CRS-2672: Attempting to start 'ora.cssd' on 'eprhel5'
CRS-2672: Attempting to start 'ora.diskmon' on 'eprhel5'
CRS-2676: Start of 'ora.diskmon' on 'eprhel5' succeeded
CRS-2676: Start of 'ora.cssd' on 'eprhel5' succeeded
CRS-2672: Attempting to start 'ora.ctssd' on 'eprhel5'
CRS-2676: Start of 'ora.ctssd' on 'eprhel5' succeeded
ASM created and started successfully.
DiskGroup DATA created successfully.
clscfg: -install mode specified
Successfully accumulated necessary OCR keys.
Creating OCR keys for user 'root', privgrp 'root'..
Operation successful.
CRS-2672: Attempting to start 'ora.crsd' on 'eprhel5'
CRS-2676: Start of 'ora.crsd' on 'eprhel5' succeeded
CRS-4256: Updating the profile
Successful addition of voting disk 9e1cc3ad1ba64f8ebf8142118e68c819.
Successfully replaced voting disk group with +DATA.
CRS-4256: Updating the profile
CRS-4266: Voting file(s) successfully replaced
## STATE    File Universal Id                File Name Disk group
1. ONLINE   9e1cc3ad1ba64f8ebf8142118e68c819 (/dev/sdc1) [DATA]
Located 1 voting disk(s).
CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.crsd' on 'eprhel5'
CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.crsd' on 'eprhel5' succeeded
CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.asm' on 'eprhel5'
CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.asm' on 'eprhel5' succeeded
CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.ctssd' on 'eprhel5'
CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.ctssd' on 'eprhel5' succeeded
CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.cssdmonitor' on 'eprhel5'
CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.cssdmonitor' on 'eprhel5' succeeded
CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.cssd' on 'eprhel5'
CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.cssd' on 'eprhel5' succeeded
CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.gpnpd' on 'eprhel5'
CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.gpnpd' on 'eprhel5' succeeded
CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.gipcd' on 'eprhel5'
CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.gipcd' on 'eprhel5' succeeded
CRS-2673: Attempting to stop 'ora.mdnsd' on 'eprhel5'
CRS-2677: Stop of 'ora.mdnsd' on 'eprhel5' succeeded
CRS-2672: Attempting to start 'ora.mdnsd' on 'eprhel5'
CRS-2676: Start of 'ora.mdnsd' on 'eprhel5' succeeded
CRS-2672: Attempting to start 'ora.gipcd' on 'eprhel5'
CRS-2676: Start of 'ora.gipcd' on 'eprhel5' succeeded
CRS-2672: Attempting to start 'ora.gpnpd' on 'eprhel5'
CRS-2676: Start of 'ora.gpnpd' on 'eprhel5' succeeded
CRS-2672: Attempting to start 'ora.cssdmonitor' on 'eprhel5'
CRS-2676: Start of 'ora.cssdmonitor' on 'eprhel5' succeeded
CRS-2672: Attempting to start 'ora.cssd' on 'eprhel5'
CRS-2672: Attempting to start 'ora.diskmon' on 'eprhel5'
CRS-2676: Start of 'ora.diskmon' on 'eprhel5' succeeded
CRS-2676: Start of 'ora.cssd' on 'eprhel5' succeeded
CRS-2672: Attempting to start 'ora.ctssd' on 'eprhel5'
CRS-2676: Start of 'ora.ctssd' on 'eprhel5' succeeded
CRS-2672: Attempting to start 'ora.asm' on 'eprhel5'
CRS-2676: Start of 'ora.asm' on 'eprhel5' succeeded
CRS-2672: Attempting to start 'ora.crsd' on 'eprhel5'
CRS-2676: Start of 'ora.crsd' on 'eprhel5' succeeded
CRS-2672: Attempting to start 'ora.evmd' on 'eprhel5'
CRS-2676: Start of 'ora.evmd' on 'eprhel5' succeeded
CRS-0184: Cannot communicate with the CRS daemon.
PRCR-1070 : Failed to check if resource ora.asm is registered
Cannot communicate with crsd
add asm ... failed
clsr_start_dg return error at loc: 70 rc=0
CRS-4535: Cannot communicate with Cluster Ready Services
CRS-4000: Command Create failed, or completed with errors.
create diskgroup DATA ... failed
CRS-4535: Cannot communicate with Cluster Ready Services
CRS-4000: Command Add failed, or completed with errors.
Command return code of 1 (256) from command: /oracle/product/grid/bin/crsctl add type ora.registry.acfs.type -basetype ora.local_resource.type -file /oracle/product/grid/crs/template/registry.acfs.type
add ora.registry.acfs.type ... failed
PRCR-1070 : Failed to check if resource ora.net1.network is registered
Cannot communicate with crsd
add scan=crs-scan ... failed
Preparing packages for installation...
cvuqdisk-1.0.7-1
Configure Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Cluster ... failed
Updating inventory properties for clusterware
Starting Oracle Universal Installer...
Checking swap space: must be greater than 500 MB.   Actual 2047 MB    Passed
The inventory pointer is located at /etc/oraInst.loc
The inventory is located at /oracle/oraInventory
'UpdateNodeList' was successful.
[root@eprhel5 grid]# cd bin
[root@eprhel5 bin]# ./crsctl check crs
CRS-4638: Oracle High Availability Services is online
CRS-4535: Cannot communicate with Cluster Ready Services
CRS-4529: Cluster Synchronization Services is online
CRS-4533: Event Manager is online
orarootagent_root
2011-01-11 13:40:55.831: [    AGFW][2555229616] Starting the agent: /oracle/product/grid/log/eprhel5/agent/crsd/orarootagent_root/
2011-01-11 13:40:55.831: [   AGENT][2555229616] Agent framework initialized, Process Id = 21314
2011-01-11 13:40:55.832: [ USRTHRD][2555229616] Utils::getCrsHome crsHome /oracle/product/grid
2011-01-11 13:40:55.833: [ USRTHRD][2555229616] Process::convertPidToString pid = 21314
2011-01-11 13:40:55.833: [CLSFRAME][2555229616] Inited lsf context 0x19f395f0
2011-01-11 13:40:55.833: [CLSFRAME][2555229616] Initing CLS Framework messaging
2011-01-11 13:40:55.833: [CLSFRAME][2555229616] New Framework state: 2
2011-01-11 13:40:55.833: [CLSFRAME][2555229616] M2M is starting...
2011-01-11 13:40:55.835: [ CRSCOMM][2555229616] m_pClscCtx=0x19f8c7e0m_pUgblm=0x19f90190
2011-01-11 13:40:55.835: [ CRSCOMM][2555229616] Starting send thread
2011-01-11 13:40:55.835: [ CRSCOMM][1147201856] clsIpc: sendWork thread started.
2011-01-11 13:40:56.064: [ COMMCRS][1113643328]clsc_connect: (0x1a028f90) no listener at (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=IPC)(KEY=CRSD_IPC_SOCKET_11))
2011-01-11 13:40:56.064: [ CRSCOMM][2555229616][FFAIL] Could not connect to (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=IPC)(KEY=CRSD_IPC_SOCKET_11)) ret = 9
2011-01-11 13:40:56.064: [CLSFRAME][2555229616] Failure at IPC connect to server:2
2011-01-11 13:40:56.064: [CLSFRAME][2555229616] Unable to start module-to-module comms: 1
2011-01-11 13:40:56.065: [    AGFW][2555229616]Created alert : (:CRSAGF00120:) : Agent Framework failed to start:1
2011-01-11 13:40:56.065: [    AGFW][2555229616] Agent is exiting with exit code: 1
oraagent_oracle
2011-01-11 13:40:55.757: [    AGFW][1940628912] Starting the agent: /oracle/product/grid/log/eprhel5/agent/crsd/oraagent_oracle/
2011-01-11 13:40:55.757: [   AGENT][1940628912] Agent framework initialized, Process Id = 21308
2011-01-11 13:40:55.764: [ USRTHRD][1940628912] Utils::getCrsHome crsHome /oracle/product/grid
2011-01-11 13:40:55.764: [ USRTHRD][1940628912] Process::convertPidToString pid = 21308
2011-01-11 13:40:55.765: [CLSFRAME][1940628912] Inited lsf context 0x8844b00
2011-01-11 13:40:55.765: [CLSFRAME][1940628912] Initing CLS Framework messaging
2011-01-11 13:40:55.765: [CLSFRAME][1940628912] New Framework state: 2
2011-01-11 13:40:55.765: [CLSFRAME][1940628912] M2M is starting...
2011-01-11 13:40:55.770: [ CRSCOMM][1940628912] m_pClscCtx=0x8849aa0m_pUgblm=0x884d2c0
2011-01-11 13:40:55.770: [ CRSCOMM][1940628912] Starting send thread
2011-01-11 13:40:55.770: [ CRSCOMM][1152039232] clsIpc: sendWork thread started.
2011-01-11 13:40:55.782: [ CRSCOMM][1940628912][FFAIL] Could not connect to (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=IPC)(KEY=CRSD_IPC_SOCKET_11)) ret = 9
2011-01-11 13:40:55.782: [CLSFRAME][1940628912] Failure at IPC connect to server:2
2011-01-11 13:40:55.782: [CLSFRAME][1940628912] Unable to start module-to-module comms: 1
2011-01-11 13:40:55.782: [    AGFW][1940628912]Created alert : (:CRSAGF00120:) : Agent Framework failed to start:1
2011-01-11 13:40:55.782: [GIPCXCPT][1940628912] gipcShutdownF: skipping shutdown, count 1, from [ clsnOraAgent.cpp : 82], ret gipcretSuccess (0)
2011-01-11 13:40:55.785: [    AGFW][1940628912] Agent is exiting with exit code: 1

H,
in 11.2.0.2 you can simply continue running root.sh, since it uses internal checkpoints.
11.2.0.1 is a little bit more difficult, since you need to deconfigure the run (rootcrs.pl -deconfig -force) to restart root.sh.
Then when you did that, see this note for the further steps, how to call the missing assistants:
How to Proceed from Failed 11gR2 Grid Infrastructure (CRS) Installation (Doc ID 942166.1)
Regards
Sebastaian

Oracle 11g RAC on CentOS 5.2 - Node isnt working after hardware failure

Hi,
We have a 2-node Oracle RAC 11g running on identical nodes with Centos 5.2 as operating system.
Due to a drive failure and a reboot yesterday, the ASM disk, which is onnected via iSCSI, changed from sdd to sdc in name - (the faulty raid drive was removed, thus the change).
The oracle services didnt start, which appeard perfectly logical at the time, given that the ASM disk suddenly wasnt where it was supposed to be, but even today after a replacement disk was inserted, the RAID rebuilt + with the ASM disk back to its original naming in /dev/; the node doesnt seem to work properly. Some of the oracle services are running, but there seems to be a problem with the listener, which might also explain why the node does not set it's virtual ip after starting up.
Luckily, the other one is unaffected and is working perfectly fine..
I'm far from having a clue about oracle, it was sheer luck (that, and the very usable documentation by oracle) that i managed to get that cluster running in the first place... I know my way around linux, so if it's a operating system related problem i'll be able to fix it, but i cant figure out what the problem with oracle is.
The listener doesnt seem to be running
[oracle@serv-211 ~]$ lsnrctl status
LSNRCTL for Linux: Version 11.1.0.6.0 - Production on 08-JUN-2010 11:12:00
Copyright (c) 1991, 2007, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connecting to (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=)(PORT=1521))
TNS-12541: TNS:no listener
TNS-12560: TNS:protocol adapter error
TNS-00511: No listener
Linux Error: 111: Connection refused
Manual starting works, but not with the result i hoped for
[root@serv-211 oracle]# lsnrctl status
LSNRCTL for Linux: Version 11.1.0.6.0 - Production on 08-JUN-2010 11:32:16
Copyright (c) 1991, 2007, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connecting to (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=)(PORT=1521))
STATUS of the LISTENER
Alias LISTENER
Version TNSLSNR for Linux: Version 11.1.0.6.0 - Production
Start Date 08-JUN-2010 11:30:42
Uptime 0 days 0 hr. 1 min. 34 sec
Trace Level support
Security ON: Local OS Authentication
SNMP OFF
Listener Log File /opt/oracle/11g/diag/tnslsnr/serv-211/listener/alert/log.xml
Listener Trace File /opt/oracle/11g/diag/tnslsnr/serv-211/listener/trace/ora_22694_140227439994592.trc
Listening Endpoints Summary...
(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=serv-211)(PORT=1521)))
The listener supports no services
The command completed successfully
[root@serv-211 oracle]#
While other services appear to be fine
[oracle@serv-211 ~]$ crsctl check crs
Cluster Synchronization Services appears healthy
Cluster Ready Services appears healthy
Event Manager appears healthy
I feel a little lost in the vast amount of logfiles, a point in the right direction might actually be enough. I cant image it can be that serious.
Please assist
Regards
Edited by: user9134821 on 08.06.2010 02:39

Hi,
As usual, as soon as i post a problem in some board, i find the solution myself.
Although this way isnt really "linuxy", deleting the listener with the netCA tool and adding a new one solved it.
Regards.

OBIEE 11G error while installation at the configuration setting(ASinstance)

Hi Experts,
I am trying to Install OBIEE 11G on Windows on Local PC.But getting the following error .
"Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space" at the configuration step of ASinstance.
I have set the virtual memory to maximum.Machine's RAM is 2 GB and Virtual memory is 4 GB which meeets system requirement for OBI.
I have treid few options but nothing seems to workout :( . and even Downloaded and tried to Install the software again.
Any help on this highly appreciated.
Amit

Hi Dhar,
below is the log file content:
opmn.log:
Error Message from opmn.log file:
[ERROR:1] [] [libopmncustom] Process Ping Failed: coreapplication_obips1~OracleBIPresentationServicesComponent~coreapplication_obips1~1 (1035801255:1640) [No addresses matched the properties for the request]
[ERROR:1] [] [libopmncustom] Hi Dhar,
below is the log file content:
opmn.log:
Error Message from opmn.log file:
[ERROR:1] [] [libopmncustom] Process Ping Failed: coreapplication_obips1~OracleBIPresentationServicesComponent~coreapplication_obips1~1 (1035801255:1640) [No addresses matched the properties for the request]
[ERROR:1] [] [libopmncustom] Ping failed in Ready callback for proc:1035801255
All other log files (presentation, bi server, scheduler, cluster controller) contains the following error message:
Error Message: The configuration file (C:\obi\user_projects\domains\bifoundation_domain\config\fmwconfig\jps-config.xml) was not found or is inaccessible.
As per comments posted by you here: https://cn.forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2326091
I checked FMW_SECURITY_SERVICE_URL parameter in the NQSConfig.ini file.
This parameter is using VIP (admin server listen to this) and not the actual IP of the server.
Should I change this URL and point it to actual IP.
What is the procedure to change this parameter using EM?

Oracle 11g SOA-BPM PS3 Installation Help

I'm not a super techie, so installing the latest release from Oracle was a challenge, but I encountered a number of problems and kept notes of what I did to solve it. Many of these hints came from the Forum, but nothing had all of the relevant info under one thread. So here is what I pieced together. If this is helpful to anybody, I'd love to hear it - either on this thread or at my e-mail address of [email protected]. My thanks to Linus Chow of Oracle for some help and allowing me to think I could do this!
Comments/Suggestions on Oracle 11g SOA-BPMN PS3 Installation_
Suggest downloading all files into a common directory. I stuck this folder at the root (C:) drive. At collectively just over 5 GBs, the downloading will take several hours (for me it was a full day, as did the installation). You will need an OTN account to be able to download the software. A good overview of PS3 is at the following link: http://blogs.oracle.com/bpm/2011/01/bpm_suite_11gr1_ps3_released.html.
General comment/suggestion. Be sure to name the aforementioned folder without any spaces (big problems if this is done because of how unzipped files do/don’t work with a path name with spaces in it). As the installs get started, note that an Oracle directory (under the root) with a default name for the middleware directory, named Middleware, is created as the default.
The link with the installation is actually helpful, but it is incomplete (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/bpm/downloads/index.html). Some of the detail needed is in the quick installation guide (http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E17904_01/install.1111/e14318/toc.htm, and I suggest downloading the PDF version), but the order conflicts with the previous information. I resolved this by using the latter for detail, but the former for the sequence. I also had to turn to several blogs/forums (the main one being: http://blogs.oracle.com/SOA/2009/08/installing_oracle_soa_suite_11.html) to get help on troubleshooting problems with the installation (see below for others).
I have a Windows 7 Professional 64-bit version, but I ended up following the path for the 32-bit install path (see the main link cited above), mostly because it was unclear to me what the 64-bit path would be. I also already had the 32-bit version of the JRE installed. The following links cover identifying the differences and what you may have installed as well as alternative versions to download: http://www.java.com/en/download/faq/index_general.xml?user_os=Windows%207; http://www.java.com/en/download/faq/java_win64bit.xml; and http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp.
Another general comment/suggestion. I found it useful to reboot after each step. It shut down services that I would otherwise have to search for and shut down manually. Some of the installations require services activated by previous steps to be turned off, so you’re better off doing something like this rather than encountering such an error in a subsequent step.
Step 1: Installing the XE database. The file is an .exe file, and will execute upon a double click. However, the instruction regarding RCU is best saved until the 3rd step, doing it just before you install the RCU. More importantly, there are some things to keep in mind about the database install. First, after installation, you should sign on to the DB, using the Go To DB Home Page option under the Express Edition (XE) folder or set of menu options (created as part of the installation), under the SYSTEM user account. During installation, you’ll have to have given a password for this account, so make sure it is one you can remember. After signing on as SYSTEM, give the SYS user account another (or same) password that you can remember. You will use the SYS account in subsequent steps. Second, there is a parameter for the database that must be changed from the default. This is covered in the links below: http://blogs.oracle.com/tridib_samanta/2010/03/rcu-6107db_init_param_prerequisite_failure_for_processes.html and http://cn.forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1004605. To solve this, select SQL button on the DB home page, then SQL Commands button on the next page, paste/enter into the pane at the top the following command, “ALTER SYSTEM SET processes=300 SCOPE=SPFILE;” (but without the quotes), and then click on the Run button. (The parameter must be greater than or equal to 200, but I found references to setting in equal to 300 or 500.) Then you can log out and close the web page.
At times, the DB might not be started when you are expecting it to be running (e.g., after a reboot), which is covered in this link: Oracle 10g database homepage not working? (You’ll know that it is isn’t running if you try to open the Go To DB Home Page option and it won’t open, displaying an error page instead.) I found that the simplest way to fix this was to go to the Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Services, and then look to see if the OracleServiceXE service is started. If not, then restart by right-clicking on that service listing and choosing the appropriate option to execute.
Step 2: Installing WebLogic Server. Either before or during this process, you will need to set up an Oracle Support Account. However, you need a customer ID to be able to create a profile. I was thus not able to complete a profile, so the WLS installation defaulted to the Anonymous registration option. This still needed an e-mail address though, the same one with which you would create the Oracle Support profile, so you should have one at the ready. (It would not accept the e-mail address for my OTN account.) As far as I can tell, the consequence of this path is that I cannot automatically get patches and such. I figure this is a problem to be solved another day. The Oracle Support links are: https://support.oracle.com/CSP/ui/faq_en.html#SignIn and https://support.oracle.com/CSP/ui/flash.html.
If you go with the default, the middleware directory is just Middleware under the Oracle directory. If you select a different name or location, you will need to remember where it is and what the name is. You should also note the folder name for where the JDK was stuck, which for me was JDK160_21 under the Middleware directory.
Step 3: Installing RCU. The trickiest of the steps. Unlike with the previous two steps, this installation first happens after the downloaded file is unzipped. You MUST unzip into a directory for which the full path name (and not just the one you create upon extraction) is without any spaces. (You can use the underscore symbol instead of a space to indicate separation.) Unzip the folder/files, and then open the Command Prompt window. Using the cd command, work your way to the full path name to where you just unzipped these files. Next, continue to work your way down to subfolders created during the extraction process. You want to end up at the rcuHome\BIN\ subfolder. THEN do the RCU-related command cited in Step 1. Type in at the prompt the following command and hit enter: set RCU_JDBC_TRIM_BLOCKS = TRUE. Then, type in rcu.bat at the prompt and hit enter, which will run the installation and configuration sequence. This is realized through a series of windows that open for you to input information and make selections. Use the document at the following link of specific guidance as to what the configuration screens should have entered on them: http://blogs.oracle.com/SOA/2009/08/installing_oracle_soa_suite_11.html. This includes things like the service name (XE) and the host name (localhost) to enter, assuming you are installing this on a laptop or PC for local use only. Some other helpful links for troubleshooting the RCU installation are located at: http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E12839_01/doc.1111/e14259/rcu.htm#CIHGHDBG; http://oraclebi.blogspot.com/2010/08/rcu-and-what-it-means-for-you.html ; Re: RCU 11.1.1.4 install fails on Oracle XE and http://cn.forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2162409&tstart=0&messageID=9336791.
The RCU sets up DB schemas and the like for the BPMN and SOA stuff. The screenshots in the previously mentioned document should be followed exactly. You can also refer to pp. 5-6 of the Quick Installation Guide. You should use the SYS user account (the default, I think), so have the password handy.
I also found it more comforting to shutdown the RCU installation/configuration via the cancel option than to keep going back a screen to fix something. This may not have been necessary, but it made me feel better. Be prepared for interim screens that pop up to show that the installation/configuration is happening, which will also tell you there are errors. One such screen says that XE isn’t supported for RCU, but you can ignore that (as the supporting guidelines indicate).
Step 4: Installing JDev. This is an executable, and you just install with all of the defaults. This process will start the WLS as part of the installation, so you must turn it off before going to the next step. Again, I just rebooted to do this.
Step 5: Installing SOA Extensions for JDev. Instructions on the page at the main link are clear and correct. The 2 screen shots must be reviewed and adhered to completely in checking off options. The first selection defines the areas where updates are to be sought out, while the second selection is from the available option(s) from those areas. In this case, you are only installing the SOA Composite Editor, though there are several other updates/extensions from which to select (but don’t, at least for now).
Step 6: Installing BPM Extensions for JDev. Same comment as for Step 5, except that the option you want to select is not as what is indicate (the BPM Composite Editor) but the BPM Process Studio! I would advise against doing these as part of the same update sequence. In fact, I closed out JDev completely (though I did not reboot) between Step 5 and Step 6.
Step 7 and 8: Installing SOA Suite. I suggest unzipping both of the downloaded zip files. Again, it is critical that the full path name into which files are extracted contains no spaces. Once unzipped, you should navigate to the Disk1 folder under the directory into which the first zip file was extracted, but you should do this with the Command Prompt window and the cd command. From this prompt, you should type in “setup.exe -jreLoc {location of JDK}” (without the quotes) and hit enter. The {location of JDK} is where the JDK was installed as part of the WLS installation. For me this was in folder JDK160_21 under the Middleware folder in the Oracle directory. Refer to pp. 12-15 of the Quick Installation Guide. This took me a couple of tries before I actually got the installation screen to show up correctly. Some of what this looks like is also in the following link: http://blogs.oracle.com/SOA/2009/08/installing_oracle_soa_suite_11.html.
What you may eventually figure out is that 5 installation disks are stretched across two zip files. Once the installation of disks 1 and 2 are done, a popup window will ask you to browse to the folder where each of the next 3 disks are, which is in the folder created by the extraction of files/folders from the second zip file for the SOA Suite. As with previous steps, I rebooted after all of this was done.
Step 9: Installing the Business Process Converter. Unzip the downloaded file, and open the Installation Instructions Word file. It will instruct you to point JDev’s update sequence to another zip file extracted during the unzipping of the downloaded zip file for the converter. JDev will install this without much fuss or muss, but this installation is to the Studio and not to BPA. (For installation to BPA, you need to have installed BPA, and followed the other guidance in the instructions.) To get to JDev’s update sequence, follow the same first step as in Step 5, but check the option to browse for and upload from a local file. This local file will be the previously mentioned other zip file.
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Create a new user oracle and proceed with the installation
--> useradd -g oinstall oracle
If your are forwarding your GUI using xming or vnc you would need to copy the xauth of root user and set it to oracle
[server1:root] xauth list
bangvmpllE.com/unix:11 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 b23d63374fe25a3577751b6b95b2210e
[server1:root] sudo su - oracle
[server1:oracle] export DISPLAY=localhost:10.0
[server1:oracle] xauth add bangvmpllE.com/unix:11 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 b23d63374fe25a3577751b6b95b2210e

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