7 Oracle Real Application Clusters Post-Installation Procedures

7.1.1 Back Up the Voting Disk After Installation

After your Oracle Database 10g with RAC installation is complete and after you are sure that your system is functioning properly, make a backup of the contents of the voting disk. Use the dd utility.

Also, make a backup copy of the voting disk contents after you complete any node additions or node deletions, and after running any deinstallation procedures.

7.1.2 Download and Install Patch Updates

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

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. 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 patch updates 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 patch updates that you downloaded from OracleMetaLink. The unzip utility is located in the $ORACLE_HOME/bin directory.

7.1.3 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 in the DOC directory on the 10g Release 2 (10.2) installation media, or on the OTN Web site.

7.1.4 Create Symbolic Links for Oracle Real Application Clusters 10g Installed on OCFS

If you installed RAC on Oracle Cluster File System (OCFS) version 1, then perform the following steps on each node of the cluster after installation:

1. Stop the Oracle instance.

2. Move the $ORACLE_HOME/dbs/hc_*.dat files to a directory on a local file system.

3. Create symbolic links from the $ORACLE_HOME/dbs directory to the hc_*.dat files on the local file system.

4. Restart the Oracle instance.

7.2.1 Verifying Oracle Enterprise Manager Operations

Run the following command to verify the Oracle Enterprise Manager configuration in your newly-installed Oracle 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. Run the following command:

srvctl config database -d db

The output should be similar to the following:

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

Continue with the following section, "Recommended Post-Installation Tasks". When you have completed these tasks, you should proceed with the initial configuration tasks described in Part IV.

7.2.2 Recommended Post-Installation Tasks

Oracle recommends that you complete the following tasks after installing RAC:

• Back Up the root.sh Script

• Set Up Users Accounts

• Set the ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_SID Environments