oracle-validated

The oracle-validated RPM is designed to simply installation or Oracle libraries and modifing /etc/sysctl.conf and /etc/security/limits.conf

rpm -ql oracle-validated /etc/rc.d/init.d/oraclevalidated /etc/sysconfig/oracle-validated/oracle-validated-verify /etc/sysconfig/oracle-validated/oracle-validated.params /usr/bin/oracle-validated-verify

When you install the oracle-validated RPM using up2date and ULN, it will automatically install all packages required by the Oracle database installer.

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[Jun 28, 2011] Revisiting the oracle-validated RPM (Sergio's Blog)

[root@localhost ~]# up2date --install oracle-validated Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: el4_i386_addons... Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: el4_i386_oracle... Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: el4_i386_latest... Fetching rpm headers...

Oracle Validated Setup on OEL 5 Update 4 " Core Content Only

March 30, 2010 Jason Stortz

For those of you that have ever tried to setup an Oracle Database on Linux you know there are a variety of steps to take on your fresh box before you can actually begin the installation process. You will need to install serveral binaries and those will perhaps have several depedencies. After that you will need to create an "oracle" user. And the list goes on. If you have a support subscription with a valid Customer Support Identifeir (CSI) this whole process gets MUCH easier.

My Unbreakable Linux Network support subscription and accompanying CSI allow for the use of the "up2date" command. This will update the binary I ask for as well as deduce, install and/or update any dependencies. Technically, I can accomplish the same tasks without the subscrption. This would require that I look up (and not miss) binary depedencies while also having the time to manually hunt down, download and install the binaries by hand. Or I can just use the up2date command!

Having just installed OEL5.4 and registered the box with the Unbreakable Linux Network I can use the up2date command along with the parameter "oracle-validated". Running this command will update all the necessary binaries in prepartion for installing Oracle Database. It will resolve and install or update all related dependencies of those binaries. It will aso create the OS user oracle along with the oinstall and dba OS groups. Let's try it out here:

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root@lusytp08: # ll total 48 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 28 17:36 ./ drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Jun 28 17:36 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23 Jun 28 17:36 oracle-validated.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5306 Apr 13 12:04 oracle-validated.params -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27328 Apr 13 12:04 oracle-validated-verify* ---: /etc/sysconfig/oracle-validated [0]root@lusytp08: # vi oracle-validated.conf ---: /etc/sysconfig/oracle-validated [0]root@lusytp08: # oracle-validated bash: oracle-validated: command not found ---: /etc/sysconfig/oracle-validated [127] root@lusytp08: # ./oracle-validated-verify ---: /etc/sysconfig/oracle-validated [0]root@lusytp08: # ll total 48 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 28 17:37 ./ drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Jun 28 17:36 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23 Jun 28 17:37 oracle-validated.conf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5306 Apr 13 12:04 oracle-validated.params -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 27328 Apr 13 12:04 oracle-validated-verify* ---: /etc/sysconfig/oracle-validated [0]root@lusytp08: # vi oracle-validated-verify ---: /etc/sysconfig/oracle-validated [0]root@lusytp08: # cd /var/log ---: /var/log [0]root@lusytp08: # ls acpid boot.log dmesg mail pm samba tallylog yum.log anaconda.log brcm-iscsi.log faillog maillog ppp scrollkeeper.log up2date anaconda.syslog btmp gdm mcelog prelink secure vbox anaconda.xlog cron iptraf messages rpmpkgs setroubleshoot wtmp audit cups lastlog oracle-validated sa spooler Xorg.0.log ---: /var/log [0]root@lusytp08: # cd oracle-validated-verify bash: cd: oracle-validated-verify: No such file or directory ---: /var/log [1] root@lusytp08: # ls acpid boot.log dmesg mail pm samba tallylog yum.log anaconda.log brcm-iscsi.log faillog maillog ppp scrollkeeper.log up2date anaconda.syslog btmp gdm mcelog prelink secure vbox anaconda.xlog cron iptraf messages rpmpkgs setroubleshoot wtmp audit cups lastlog oracle-validated sa spooler Xorg.0.log ---: /var/log [0]root@lusytp08: # cd oracle-validated ---: /var/log/oracle-validated [0]root@lusytp08: # ls backup results ---: /var/log/oracle-validated [0]root@lusytp08: # ll total 16 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jun 28 12:48 ./ drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 Jun 28 15:43 ../ drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Jun 28 17:37 backup/ drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jun 28 17:37 results/ ---: /var/log/oracle-validated [0]root@lusytp08: # cd r* ---: /var/log/oracle-validated/results [0]root@lusytp08: # ls orakernel.log ---: /var/log/oracle-validated/results [0]root@lusytp08: # ll total 12 drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jun 28 17:37 ./ drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jun 28 12:48 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2139 Jun 28 17:37 orakernel.log ---: /var/log/oracle-validated/results [0]root@lusytp08: # cat orakernel.log Adding group oinstall with gid 685037 groupadd: group oinstall exists Adding group dba groupadd: group dba exists Adding user oracle with user id 685036, initial login group oinstall, supplementary group dba and home directory /home/oracle User oracle is already present uid=5001(oracle) gid=5000(dba) groups=5000(dba) Creating oracle user passed Verifying kernel parameters as per Oracle recommendations... fs.file-max 6815744 kernel.msgmni 2878 kernel.msgmax 8192 kernel.msgmnb 65536 kernel.sem 250 32000 100 142 kernel.shmmni 4096 kernel.shmall 1073741824 kernel.shmmax 4398046511104 kernel.sysrq 1 net.core.rmem_default 262144 net.core.rmem_max 4194304 net.core.wmem_default 262144 net.core.wmem_max 1048576 fs.aio-max-nr 3145728 net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range 9000 65500 vm.min_free_kbytes 51200 Setting kernel parameters as per oracle recommendations... Altered file /etc/sysctl.conf Original file backed up at /etc/sysctl.conf.orabackup Verifying & setting of kernel parameters passed Verifying oracle user OS limits as per Oracle recommendations... oracle soft nofile 131072 oracle hard nofile 131072 oracle soft nproc 131072 oracle hard nproc 131072 oracle soft core unlimited oracle hard core unlimited oracle soft memlock 50000000 oracle hard memlock 50000000 Setting oracle user OS limits as per Oracle recommendations... Altered file /etc/security/limits.conf Original file backed up at /etc/security/limits.conf.orabackup Verifying & setting of user limits passed Verifying kernel boot parameters as per Oracle recommendations... numa=off already present numa=off already present numa=off already present Setting kernel boot parameters as per Oracle recommendations... Boot parameters will be effected on next reboot Altered file /boot/grub/grub.conf Original file backed up at /boot/grub/grub.conf.orabackup Verifying & setting of boot parameters passed Verifying module parameters as per Oracle recommendations... No settings to be modified Verifying & setting of module parameters passed Taking a backup of old config files under /var/log/oracle-validated/backup/Jun-28-2011-17-37-49 ---: /var/log/oracle-validated/results [0]root@lusytp08: # ---: /var/log/oracle-validated/results [0]root@lusytp08: # ls orakernel.log ---: /var/log/oracle-validated/results [0]root@lusytp08: # ll total 12 drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jun 28 17:37 ./ drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jun 28 12:48 ../ -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2139 Jun 28 17:37 orakernel.log ---: /var/log/oracle-validated/results [0]root@lusytp08: # cd

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