Installation guide

6. In the “Database Idencaon” page, enter a “Global Database Name” and an “Oracle System Idener (SID) Prex”.
The Global Database Name is usually of the form name.domain. It is a Best Pracce to make the “name” equal to the SID.
The SID should be eight characters or less.
7. In the “Management Opons” page, choose the “Enterprise Manager” opon. If you wish to use e-mail nocaons,
provide the outgoing mail server and e-mail address. If you wish to enable automac daily backups, enter the backup
me and OS credenals for the user performing backups. Click “Next”.
8. In the “Database Credenals” page, enter the same or dierent passwords for the SYS, SYSTEM, DBSNMP, and SYSMAN
users. Click “Next”.
9. In the “Storage Opons” page, choose a storage type for the database. If you choose “Cluster File System”, the next page
displayed is the “Database File Locaons” page, covered in the next step. If you choose “Automac Storage Management
(ASM)”, then you will be directed to create an ASM instance.
a. The “Create ASM Instance” page is displayed. Supply a password for the SYS user of the ASM instance. If your
Oracle Home is installed on a Cluster File System, then an SPFILE is used for the instance. Otherwise, you have the
choice of an IFILE or SPFILE. Once your choices are made, click “Next”. The ASM instance is created.
b. In the “ASM Disk Groups” page, click on “Create New”.
c. In the “Create Disk Group” page, enter a disk group name, and then select disks from the list of candidate disks.
If you do not see the correct disks, you can click on the “Change Disk Discovery Path”. Select disks with a status of
“Candidate” or “Former”. Click “OK” to return to the “ASM Disk Groups” page. Click “Next”.
10. In the “Database File Locaons” page, specify the locaon of database les. You may specify a template of le locaons,
Oracle-managed les in a common locaon, or a common locaon without Oracle management. For a common locaon,
you may specify an ASM disk group or the OCFS directory created above before running DBCA. You also have the opon to
mulplex redo log les and control les if desired. Click “OK”.
11. In the “Recovery Conguraon” page, you can enable log archiving by selecng “Enable Archiving”. You also have the
opon of creang a ash recovery area. You may specify the recovery area size and the le locaon for OCFS or an ASM disk
group. See the discussion above for ash recovery area sizing. Click “Next”.
12. In the “Database Content” page, you can select individual components and tablespaces for your custom database. You
may also choose to include sample schemas or to run custom scripts as part of database creaon. When nished selecng
opons, click “Next”.
13. In the “Database Services” page, click on the global database name to expand the Services tree. Click “Add” to create a
database service. Enter a service name in the “Add a Service” dialog. Click “OK” to add the service and return to the
“Database Services” pageClick on the service name to display service preference opons. Set all instance preferences to
“Available” or “Preferred”. Set the TAF policies as desired. When nished, click “Next”.
14. The “Inializaon Parameters” page contains a number of opons on several dierent tabs:
a. For the “Memory” tab, you may select “Typical” memory sengs or “Custom” memory sengs.
b. The “All Inializaon Opons” buon gives access to the “Inializaon Parameters” dialog box. This dialog box
allows you to edit a large variety of general and instance specic parameters.
c. Under the “Sizing” tab, you may edit the block size and process count parameters.
d. Under the “Character Sets” tab, you may set the database character set.
e. Under the “Connecon Mode” tab, choose either the “Dedicated Server” or “Shared Server” opon.
Aer you have edited all parameters that you wish to edit, click “Next”.