Using Serviceguard Extension for RAC, 5th Edition, June 2007

Serviceguard Configuration for Oracle 10g RAC
Prerequisites for Oracle 10g (Sample Installation)
Chapter 2112
Prerequisites for Oracle 10g (Sample
Installation)
The following sample steps prepare a SGeRAC cluster for Oracle 10g.
Refer to the Oracle documentation for Oracle installation details.
1.
Create Inventory Groups on each Node
Create the Oracle Inventory group if one does not exist, create the
OSDBA group, and create the Operator Group (optional).
# groupadd oinstall
# groupadd dba
# groupadd oper
2.
Create Oracle User on each Node
# useradd -u 203 -g oinstall -G dba,oper oracle
3.
Change the Password on each Node
# passwd oracle
4.
Create Symbolic Links
Required if Motif 2.1 Development Environment Package is not
installed.
# ln -s /usr/lib/libX11.3 /usr/lib/libX11.sl
# ln -s /usr/lib/libXIE.2 /usr/lib/libXIE.sl
# ln -s /usr/lib/libXext.3 /usr/lib/libXext.sl
# ln -s /usr/lib/libXhp11.3 /usr/lib/Xhp11.sl
# ln -s /usr/lib/libXi.3 /usr/lib/libXi.sl
# ln -s /usr/lib/libXm.4 /usr/lib/libXm.sl
# ln -s /usr/lib/libXp.2 /usr/lib/libXp.sl
# ln -s /usr/lib/libXt.3 /usr/lib/libXt.sl
# ln -s /usr/lib/libXtst.2 /usr/lib/libXtst.sl