Installation guide

Post-Installaon Tasks
There are some post-installaon tasks that are common to Oracle9i and Oracle10g installaons. These tasks are covered below.
First, verify that all services start properly aer boong the servers. Use the following steps:
1. Reboot each node.
2. Select Start -> Sengs -> Control Panel -> Administrave Tools -> Services.
3. Verify that all required Oracle services are started. Start any required services that are stopped.
4. Make sure that all required services are set to startup automacally.
To verify that the database is operang, make sure that a database instance has been started on each node. You may then query
each node to ensure that each node sees that the other nodes in the cluster have instances that are running. Sample output in the
following procedure is for a two-node cluster. On each node, perform the following steps:
1. Log in as a dba user.
2. At the command prompt, enter “srvctl status database -d dbname”, where dbname is the global name that you dened
for the database in DBCA.
3. Whether or not the database is running, enter sqlplus “/ as sysdba” at the command prompt.
4. The SQL> prompt appears. If the database instances are not running, enter “startup” at the SQL> prompt. The instance
will be started.
5. Enter the following query at the SQL> prompt:
SELECT inst_id, instance_number inst_no, instance_name
inst_name, parallel, status, database_status db_status,
acve_state state, host_name host FROM gv$instance;
The output that appears resembles the following:
As another step, you may wish to congure Transparent Applicaon Failover (TAF) for client session failover. This is congured by
eding the $ORACLE_HOME/network/admin/tnsnames.ora le on each node. This is necessary for Oracle9i failover, but oponal for
Oracle10g failover. Further informaon may be found in the Oracle Net Administrators Guide.
You should also check to see if there are any Oracle patches available that are appropriate for your situaon. Patches may be down-
loaded from hp://metalink.oracle.com Many Oracle products and opons require conguraon before they can be used the rst
me. Check the documentaon available on the CD or download documentaon from hp://www.oracle.com/technology/documen-
taon/database10g.html