Owner's Manual

20 Deployment Guide
Disable SELinux
To run the Oracle database, you must disable SELinux.
To temporarily disable SELinux, perform the following steps:
1
Log in as root .
2 At the command prompt, type:
setenforce 0
To permanently disable SELinux, perform the following steps on all the nodes:
1
Open your grub.conf file.
2 Locate the kernel command line and append the following option:
selinux=0
For example:
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-34.ELlargesmp ro root=LABEL=/ apic rhgb quiet
selinux=0
3 Reboot your system.
Configuring Shared Storage for Oracle Clusterware and the Database Using OCFS2
Before you begin using OCFS2:
• Download the RPMs from http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/files/RedHat/RHEL4/x86_64/1.2.3-1 .
• Find your kernel version by typing:
uname –r
and then download the OCFS2 packages for the kernel version.
• Download the ocfs2-tools packages from
http://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2-tools/files/RedHat/RHEL4/x86_64/1.2.1-1 .
• Install all the ocfs2 and ocfs2-tools packages by typing:
rpm –ivh *