Using Serviceguard Extension for RAC, 3rd Edition, May 2006

Serviceguard Configuration for Oracle 9i RAC
Installing Oracle 9i RAC
Chapter 3148
Installing Oracle 9i RAC
The following sample steps for a SGeRAC cluster for Oracle 9i. Refer to
the Oracle documentation for Oracle installation details.
Install Oracle Software into CFS Home
Oracle RAC software is installed using the Oracle Universal Installer.
This section describes installation of Oracle RAC software onto a CFS
home.
1. Oracle Pre-installation Steps
a. Create user accounts.
Create user and group for Oracle accounts on all nodes using the
following commands:
# groupadd -g 99 dba
# useradd -g dba -u 999 -d /cfs/mnt1/oracle oracle
Create Oracle home directory on CFS
# cd /cfs/mnt1
# mkdir /cfs/mnt1/oracle
# chown oracle:dba oracle
Change password for Oracle account on all nodes.
# passwd oracle
b. Set up for remote commands
Setup user equivalence for all nodes by adding node name entries
to /etc/hosts.equiv or add entries to the .rhosts of oracle
account.
c. Set up CFS directory for Oracle datafiles.
# cd /cfs/mnt2
# mkdir oradata
# chown oracle:dba oradata
# chmod 755 oradata