Oracle Applications R12.1.1 Installation on Oracle Solaris 10 U9

This article describes all steps which are required for Installing Oracle Applications R12.1.1 on Oracle Solaris 10 U9 on Sparc-64 Bit.

Steps:



1) Verify the OS version

bash-3.00$ uname -r
5.10
bash-3.00$

For Installing Apps Release 12.1.1 min OS version is Solaris 10

2) Verify the release of OS

bash-3.00$ cat /etc/release
                   Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 s10s_u9wos_14a SPARC
     Copyright (c) 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
                            Assembled 11 August 2010
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3) Verify all required OS patches

List of OS Patches required for Solaris 10:

125100-04
120473-05
127111-02
137111-04

bash-3.00# /usr/sbin/patchadd -p | grep 125100-04
Patch: 144744-01 Obsoletes: 138219-01 Requires: 120473-05 124235-02 125100-04 125800-01 Incompatibles: Packages: SUNWcsl
bash-3.00# /usr/sbin/patchadd -p | grep 120473-05
Patch: 144744-01 Obsoletes: 138219-01 Requires: 120473-05 124235-02 125100-04 125800-01 Incompatibles: Packages: SUNWcsl
bash-3.00# /usr/sbin/patchadd -p | grep 127111
Patch: 127127-11 Obsoletes: 118557-09 118560-02 118562-14 118843-01 120046-01 120068-03 120737-01 
/usr/sbin/patchadd -p | grep 137111
Patch: 137137-09 Obsoletes: 120741-01 120986-12 120992-02 121008-02 121274-01 121414-01

4) Verify Required packages:

List of required packages

SUNWuiu8
SUNWulcf
SUNWlibC

bash-3.00# pkginfo -i SUNWuiu8 SUNWulcf SUNWlibC
system      SUNWlibC Sun Workshop Compilers Bundled libC
system      SUNWuiu8 Iconv modules for UTF-8 Locale
system      SUNWulcf UTF-8 Locale Environment Common Files
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5) Other Software requirements:

ar
ld
make
X Display Server

Check for all these files exists in /usr/ccs/bin location.

bash-3.00$ pwd
/usr/ccs/bin
bash-3.00$ ls -l ar
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     bin        35796 Jun 28  2008 ar
bash-3.00$ ls -l make
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     bin       245764 Dec  7  2006 make
bash-3.00$ ls -l ld
-rwxr-xr-x   1 root     bin        10704 Aug 10 20:51 ld

Also make sure that you have Xdisplay Server configured on Machine.

6) Configure ulimit settings:

time (seconds) = unlimited
file (blocks) = unlimited
data (kbytes) = 4194303
stack (kbytes) = 65536
coredump (blocks) = unlimited
nofiles (descriptors) = 65536
vmemory (kbytes) = unlimited

core file size        (blocks, -c) unlimited
data seg size         (kbytes, -d) unlimited
file size             (blocks, -f) unlimited
open files                    (-n) 4096
pipe size          (512 bytes, -p) 10
stack size            (kbytes, -s) 8192
cpu time             (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes            (-u) 29995
virtual memory        (kbytes, -v) unlimited

7) Configure kernel parameters:

Recommended settings:

Solaris 10 (5.10)
rlim_fd_max 65536
noexec_user_stack 1
semsys:seminfo_semmni 100
semsys:seminfo_semmsl 256
shmsys:shminfo_shmmax 4294967295
shmsys:shminfo_shmmni 100

configured settings in /etc/system file as per 4 GB RAM

set shmsys: shminfo_shmmni = 256
set semsys: seminfo_semvmx = 32767
#set sehmsys:shminfo_shmmax = 8589934592
set shmsys:shminfo_shmmax=12025908428
set shmsys: shminfo_shmseg = 50
set rlim_fd_max=65536
set rlim_fd_cur=4096

8) Host Name Settings:

Verify the /etc/hosts file for correct entries, the valid entries should be like:

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
ip_address node_name.domain_name node_name

bash-3.00$ cat /etc/hosts
#
# Internet host table
#
::1     localhost
127.0.0.1       localhost
192.168.1.11      testerp.orasol.com   testerp        loghost
bash-3.00$

There are some known Issues for this Installation, before starting Installation configure Server with below steps:

OPMN port conflict

By default, the OPMN service of the Application Server listens on port 6000 and this can conflict with X11 port used for the graphics on UNIX machine.

To avoid this issue:

1) check port 6000 is active

bash-3.00$ netstat -an | grep 6000
      *.6000               *.*                0      0 49152      0 LISTEN
      *.6000               *.*                0      0 49152      0 LISTEN
      *.6000                            *.*                             0      0 49152      0 LISTEN
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2) Shutdown the dtlogin process with the command "/usr/dt/bin/dtconfig -kill"
3) Confirm that nothing is listening at port 6000 ("netstat -a | grep 6000")
4) Disable the local X console for dtlogin with command "/usr/dt/bin/dtconfig -d"
5) Restart dtlogin with command "/usr/dt/bin/dtconfig -e"

bash-3.00# cd /
bash-3.00# /usr/dt/bin/dtconfig -kill
done
dtlogin kill complete.
bash-3.00# netstat -a | grep 6000
bash-3.00# /usr/dt/bin/dtconfig -d
done
desktop auto-start disabled.
bash-3.00# /usr/dt/bin/dtconfig -e
done
desktop auto-start enabled.
bash-3.00#

RC-20200: Fatal: Could not find Unzip Error while Installing R12.1.1 on Solaris 10 U9

For more information on this issue refer:

http://appsdbaworkshop.blogspot.com/2010/10/rc-20200-fatal-could-not-find-unzip.html


9) Create Application, database users and group:

bash-3.00$ groupadd dbaerp
bash-3.00$ useradd -g dbaerp -d /home/applr12 -m applr12
bash-3.00$ useradd -g dbaerp -d /home/orar12 -m orar12

-> User applr12 is used for managing application tier services
-> User orar12 is used for managing database tier services

10) Verify the Disk Space with df -h command, for fresh Installation it needs 90 GB & for Vision Installation it needs 245 GB of free Disk space.

11) Create directory structure and grant appropriate permission on directory

bash-3.00# mkdir /OrApps/appsR12
bash-3.00# mkdir /OrApps/oraR12
bash-3.00# chmod -R 775 /OrApps/appsR12
bash-3.00# chmod -R 775 /OrApps/oraR12
bash-3.00# chown -R applr12:dbaerp /OrApps/appsR12
bash-3.00# chown -R orar12:dbaerp /OrApps/oraR12

12) Configure Stage Area

The stage area required 50 GB of Disk Space with additional NLS Supplement.

create Directories as below:

bash-3.00#mkdir /OrApps/sw_dumps/R12_Stage
bash-3.00#cd /OrApps/sw_dumps/R12_Stage
bash-3.00#mkdir startCD
bash-3.00#mkdir oraDB
bash-3.00#mkdir oraAppDB
bash-3.00#mkdir oraApps
bash-3.00#mkdir tools
bash-3.00#mkdir oraNLS

bash-3.00$ cd R12_Stage/
bash-3.00$ ls
oraAppDB                  oraDB                     tools                    startCD
oraApps                   oraNLS                    
bash-3.00$ pwd
/OrApps/sw_dumps/R12_Stage

-> copy Start Here DVD in startCD
-> copy APPL_TOP DVD in oraApps
-> copy RDBMS DVD in oraDB
-> copy Tools in tools
-> copy Databases DVD in oraAppDB
-> copy additional NLS DVD in oraNLS



13) Verify Proper Display setting by running xclock.




14) Run rapidwiz Installation utility from stage area



15) rapidwiz main Installation screen



16) Screen for selection of Installation type



17) Screen to configure email with oracle support



18) Screen for configuration file



19) Screen for selecting ports to be used by application



20) Screen to configure DB node



21) select type of licensing to be used in apps




22) Select additional licenses if any



23) Select country specific functionality



24) Select internationalization settings






25) Application Node configuration



26) Node Information for Database and Application servers



27) rapidwiz performing system checks to check any error for system configuration



28) System validation screen



On this screen if found any errors need to be fixed before proceeding further for a successful Installation.

29) Screen Display what components rapidwiz will Install




30) Installation progress screens







31) System configuration validation screen, this will check all required components Installed and configured properly




32) Installation completion screen




Login to applications with the valid URL, for this Installation application can be accessed with url http:testerp.orasol.com:8000

33) Login screen





References:

Oracle E-Business Suite Installation and Upgrade Notes Release 12 (12.1.1) for Oracle Solaris on SPARC (64-bit) [ID 761568.1]

Installation completed successful.

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