9. After you run root.sh on all of the nodes, the Oracle Universal Installer runs the Oracle Notification Server Configuration Assistant and Oracle Private
Interconnect Configuration Assistant. These assistants run without user intervention.
10. Oracle Universal Installer displays the End of Installation page. Click Exit.
Running the Oracle Universal Installer in Silent Mode to Install Oracle Clusterware
You can run the Oracle Universal Installer in silent mode to install Oracle Clusterware by entering the following command:
./runInstaller -silent -responseFile <response file path>
For Oracle Clusterware, you need to use the -formCluster flag. You can pass session variables like nodelist, ocr, voting disk location, and so forth from the command line for silent installation.
Oracle Clusterware Background Processes
The following processes must be running in your environment after the Oracle Clusterware installation for Oracle Clusterware to function:
■ oprocd — Process monitor for the cluster.
■ evmd — Event manager daemon that starts the racgevt process to manage call-outs.
■ ocssd — Manages cluster node membership and runs as the Oracle user; failure of this process results in node restart.
■ crsd — Performs high availability recovery and management operations such as maintaining the OCR. Also manages application resources and runs as the root user and restarts automatically upon failure.
Installing Oracle Clusterware on Windows
This section provides you with information about how to use the Oracle Universal Installer to install Oracle Clusterware on Windows.
Running the Oracle Universal Installer to Install Oracle Clusterware
Complete the following steps to install Oracle Clusterware on your cluster. At any time during installation, if you have a question about what you are being asked to do, click Help in the Oracle Universal Installer page.
1. Log in to Windows with Administrative privileges and run the setup.exe
command on the Oracle Clusterware media. This opens the Oracle Universal Installer Welcome page.
2. After you click Next in the Welcome page, the Specify File Locations page allows you to accept the displayed path name for the Oracle Clusterware products or select a different one. You can also accept default directory and path name for the location of your Clusterware home or browse for an alternate directory and destination. You must select a destination that exists on each cluster node that is part of this installation. Click Next to confirm your choices and proceed to the Language Selection page.
3. Select the language or languages for your Oracle Clusterware installation in the Language Selection page, then click Next for the Cluster Configuration page.
Installing Oracle Clusterware on Windows
4. The Cluster Configuration page contains predefined node information if the Oracle Universal Installer detects that your system has the Oracle 10g Release 2 Clusterware. Otherwise, the Oracle Universal Installer displays the Cluster Configuration page without predefined node information.
Provide your own cluster name if you do not want to use the name provided by the Oracle Universal Installer. Note that the selected cluster name must be globally unique throughout the enterprise, and its allowable character set is the same as that for host names; that is, underscores (_), hyphens (-), and single-byte alphanumeric characters (a to z, A to Z, and 0 to 9).
Enter a public and a private host name for each node. Neither the public nor the private name should have a domain qualifier. When you enter the public host name, use the primary host name of each node; that is, the name displayed by the
hostname command. The private node refers to an address that is only accessible by the other nodes in this cluster, and which Oracle uses for Cache Fusion
processing. You can enter either a private host name or a private IP address for each node.
Click Next after you have entered the cluster configuration information. This saves your entries and opens the Specify Network Interface Usage page.
5. In the Specify Network Interface Usage page, the Oracle Universal Installer displays a list of cluster-wide interfaces. Use the drop-down menus on this page to classify each interface as Public, Private, or Do Not Use. The default setting for each interface is Do Not Use. You must classify at least one interconnect as Public and one as Private. Click Next when you have made your selections to open the Select Disk Formatting Options page.
6. In the Select Disk Formatting Options page, you indicate what OCFS you want the Oracle Universal Installer to format for you.
The formatting options are as follows:
■ Format two logical drives for data and software storage. In this case, the Oracle Universal Installer creates two cluster file systems, one for the database files and one for the Oracle home. The OCR and voting disk are created in the data file directory.
■ Format one logical drive for software storage. In this case, the Oracle Universal Installer creates one cluster file system for the Oracle home and requires two additional partitions, one for the OCR and one for the voting disk. If you select this option, you must have already configured the partitions before proceeding with the installation. These partitions are stamped with "ocrcfg" for the OCR and "votedsk" for the voting disk.
■ Format one logical drive for data file storage. In this case, the Oracle Universal Installer creates one cluster file system for the database files which is also used to store the OCR and voting disk.
■ Do not format any logical drives. In this case, the Oracle Universal Installer requires two partitions: one for the OCR and one for the voting disk. If you select this option, you must have already configured the partitions before proceeding with the installation. These partitions are stamped with "ocrcfg" for the OCR and "votedsk" for the voting disk.
Click Next after making your selection in the Select Disk Formatting Options page. The next page that the Oracle Universal Installer displays depends on your selection on the Select Disk Formatting Options page, as described in the following step.
Installing Oracle Clusterware on Windows
7. If you selected the "Format two logical drives for data and software storage" option on the Select Disk Formatting Options page, you must complete the Select Software Storage Drive page and the Select Data Storage Drive page as
described in Steps a and b, respectively.
If you selected the "Format one logical drive for software storage" option on the Select Disk Formatting Options page, you must complete the Select Software Storage Drive page, the Disk Configuration - Oracle Cluster Registry (OCR) page, and the Disk Configuration - Voting Disk page as described in Steps a, c, and d, respectively.
If you selected the "Format one logical drive for data file storage" option on the Select Disk Formatting Options page, you must complete the Select Data Storage Drive page as described in Step b.
If you selected the "Do not format any logical drives" option on the Select Disk Formatting Options page, you must complete the Disk Configuration - Oracle Cluster Registry (OCR) page and the Disk Configuration - Voting Disk page as described in Steps c and d, respectively.
a. On the Select Software Storage Drive page, choose a shared drive to see a list of available partitions on that drive. Choose a partition with sufficient space to hold your Oracle home and select the partition’s disk number and partition number from the list. Click Next to proceed.
b. On the Select Data Storage Drive page, choose a shared drive to see a list of available partitions on that drive. Choose a partition with sufficient space to hold your database files and select the partition’s disk number and partition number from the list. Click Next to proceed.
c. On the Disk Configuration - Oracle Cluster Registry (OCR) page, choose a partition with sufficient space to hold your OCR and select the partition’s disk number and partition number from the list. Click Next to proceed.
d. On the Disk Configuration - Voting Disk page, choose a partition with sufficient space to hold your voting disk and select the partition’s disk number and partition number from the list. Click Next to proceed.
8. After you click Next, the Oracle Universal Installer checks whether the remote inventories are set. If they are not set, the Oracle Universal Installer sets up the remote inventories by setting registry keys. The Oracle Universal Installer also verifies the permissions to enable writing to the inventory directories on the remote nodes. After completing these actions, the Oracle Universal Installer displays a Summary page that shows the cluster node information along with the space requirements and availability. Verify the installation that the Oracle
Universal Installer is about to perform and click Finish.
9. When you click Finish, the Oracle Universal Installer installs the OCFS and Oracle Clusterware software on the local node and validates the installation again. The Oracle Universal Installer also creates any required OCFS file systems. After validating the installation, the Oracle Universal Installer completes the Oracle Clusterware software installation and configuration on the remote nodes.
Note: The Oracle Universal Installer pages described in this step displays logical drives from which you must make your selections. To be valid for selection, a logical drive must be located on a disk without a primary partition.
Adding More Nodes to the Cluster for Mass Deployment