Installation guide

Conguring the Oracle Listener
Before creang a database, it is necessary to rst create the Listener service for Oracle Net. To create a database in Cluster Mode,
both local and remote entries in the listener.ora and tnsnames.ora le must be pre-created. The remote listener must be named
LISTENERS_SIDprex (i.e. LISTENERS_MYDB1) and the local listeners should be named LISTENER_SID (i.e. LISTENER_MYDB1 and LIS-
TENER_MYDB2). The easiest way to create these Listeners is through using the Oracle Net Conguraon Assistant.
Whether installing Oracle9i or Oracle10g, the NETCA interface is essenally the same and the procedure is the same:
1. To start NETCA, go to Start -> Programs -> Oracle – HOME_NAME -> Conguraon and Migraon Tools -> Net
Conguraon Assistant.
2. In the “Net Conguraon Assistant” window, select “Cluster Conguraon”. Click “Next”.
3. On the “TOPSNodes” page, click “Select All Nodes”. Click “Next”.
4. On the “Welcome” page, select “Listener Conguraon”. Click “Next”.
5. On the “Listener Conguraon, Listener” page, select “Add”. Click “Next”.
6. On the “Listener Conguraon, Listener Name” page, enter “LISTENER” in the “Listener Name” eld. Click “Next”.
7. On the “Listener Conguraon, Select Protocols” page, select “TCP”. Click “Next”.
8. On the “Listener Conguraon, TCP/IP Protocol” page, select “Use the standard port number of 1521”. Click “Next”.
9. On the “Listener Conguraon, More Listeners?” page, select “No”. Click “Next”.
10. On the “Listener Conguraon Done” page, click “Next”.
11. Click “Finish”.
This completes Oracle Net conguraon and leaves the Listener service running.
Creang an Oracle9i Seed Database
In addion to starng DBCA, there are both pre-database creaon tasks and postdatabase creaon tasks that need to be performed
in order to create an Oracle9i Seed database.
Pre-Database Creaon Tasks
Before creang database les, it is necessary to create an inial directory on an OCFS volume. This may be done on the command
line, i.e.
“O:\md u01” creates the O:\u01 directory on the O:\ OCFS volume.
For Oracle9i, the GSD service must be run in the foreground for the duraon of the DBCA session. This means that you must stop the
background service and start a command-line version of GSD that you will leave running in an undisturbed window (for the duraon
of DBCA). You can use the following commands on each node to accomplish this:
gsdctl stop
E:\gsd.bat