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Configuring OracleAS Environment Variables

Before attempting any OracleAS administration, the default environment variables for the

Oracle OS user need to be setup. Edit the /home/oracle/.bash_profile file. The final

result should appear as follows (leaving previous settings in place).

export ORACLE_HOME=/opt/oracle/product/10.1.2/db_1

PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$ORACLE_HOME/dcm/bin:$ORACLE_

HOME/opmn/bin

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

export PATH

export TMP=/tmp

export TMPDIR=/tmp

if [ $USER = "oracle" ]; then

if [ $SHELL = "/bin/ksh" ]; then

ulimit -p 16384

ulimit -n 65536

else

ulimit -u 16384 -n 65536

Note that the ORACLE_HOME environment variable can only be set to point to the

software home for one OracleAS product. If you have multiple homes (such as Forms

and Portal), you may have to manually override the default variable when managing the

other products. Also note that the DISPLAY environment variable is not set by default.

For Oracle Application Server 10g, only a few tools such as oidadman require that

DISPLAY be set. The DISPLAY variable can be set manually, if needed.

Checking OracleAS Ports

Before you can administer OracleAS, you will need to know the port numbers for each

component. You should also cross-check the /etc/services file to make sure that there are

no conflicts with reserved ports. Port information is located in the file

$ORACLE_HOME/install/portlist.ini. Note that there will be a different portlist.ini file

for each unique ORACLE_HOME.

The following is an example of a portlist.ini file:

;OracleAS Components reserve the following ports at install time.

;As a post installation step, you can reconfigure a component to use a different port.

;Those changes will not be visible in this file.

[System]

Host Name = host1.mycompany.com

[Ports]

Oracle HTTP Server port = 7777

Oracle HTTP Server Listen port = 7778