Self-Driving: Oracle Autonomous Database automates all database and infrastructure management, monitoring, and tuning. This reduces your full-stack admin costs, although admins will still be needed for tasks such as managing how applications connect to the data warehouse and how developers use the in-database features and functions without their application code.
Self-Securing: Oracle Autonomous Database protects you from both external attacks and malicious internal users, which means you can stop worrying about cyberattacks on unpatched or unencrypted databases.
Self-Repairing: Oracle Autonomous Database protects from all downtime, including unplanned maintenance, with fewer than 2.5 minutes of downtime a month, including patching.
There’s now full, end-to-end automation for Provisioning, Security, Updates, Availability, Performance, Change management, Errors.
Oracle 18c preinstall RPM on RedHat RHEL
The Linux prerequisites for Oracle Database are all documented but using the pre-install rpm makes all things easier. Before 18c, this was easy on Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) but not so easy on RedHat (RHEL) where the .rpm had many dependencies on OEL and UEK.
Now that 18c is there to download, there’s also the 18c preinstall rpm and the good news is that it can be run also on RHEL without modification.
On the other hand, you may not have noticed that it no longer requires Oracle Linux specific RPMs. It can now be used on RHEL and all its derivatives.
Downloaded the RPM from the OEL7 repository:
[root@instance-20180803-1152 opc]# curl -o oracle-database-preinstall-18c-1.0-1.el7.x86_64.rpm https ://yum.oracle.com/repo/OracleLinux/OL7/latest/x86_64/getPackage/oracle-database-preinstall-18c-1.0-1 .el7.x86_64.rpm
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
100 18244 100 18244 0 0 63849 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 63790
then run the installation:
[root@instance-20180803-1152 opc]# yum -y localinstall oracle-database-preinstall-18c-1.0-1.el7.x86_ 64.rpm
It installs automatically all dependencies:
Installed:
oracle-database-preinstall-18c.x86_64 0:1.0-1.el7
Dependency Installed:
compat-libcap1.x86_64 0:1.10-7.el7 compat-libstdc++-33.x86_64 0:3.2.3-72.el7 glibc-devel.x86_64 0:2.17-222.el7 glibc-headers.x86_64 0:2.17-222.el7
gssproxy.x86_64 0:0.7.0-17.el7 kernel-headers.x86_64 0:3.10.0-862.9.1.el7 keyutils.x86_64 0:1.5.8-3.el7 ksh.x86_64 0:20120801-137.el7
libICE.x86_64 0:1.0.9-9.el7 libSM.x86_64 0:1.2.2-2.el7 libXext.x86_64 0:1.3.3-3.el7 libXi.x86_64 0:1.7.9-1.el7
libXinerama.x86_64 0:1.1.3-2.1.el7 libXmu.x86_64 0:1.1.2-2.el7 libXrandr.x86_64 0:1.5.1-2.el7 libXrender.x86_64 0:0.9.10-1.el7
libXt.x86_64 0:1.1.5-3.el7 libXtst.x86_64 0:1.2.3-1.el7 libXv.x86_64 0:1.0.11-1.el7 libXxf86dga.x86_64 0:1.1.4-2.1.el7
libXxf86misc.x86_64 0:1.0.3-7.1.el7 libXxf86vm.x86_64 0:1.1.4-1.el7 libaio-devel.x86_64 0:0.3.109-13.el7 libbasicobjects.x86_64 0:0.1.1-29.el7
libcollection.x86_64 0:0.7.0-29.el7 libdmx.x86_64 0:1.1.3-3.el7 libevent.x86_64 0:2.0.21-4.el7 libini_config.x86_64 0:1.3.1-29.el7
libnfsidmap.x86_64 0:0.25-19.el7 libpath_utils.x86_64 0:0.2.1-29.el7 libref_array.x86_64 0:0.1.5-29.el7 libstdc++-devel.x86_64 0:4.8.5-28.el7_5.1
libverto-libevent.x86_64 0:0.2.5-4.el7 nfs-utils.x86_64 1:1.3.0-0.54.el7 psmisc.x86_64 0:22.20-15.el7 xorg-x11-utils.x86_64 0:7.5-22.el7
xorg-x11-xauth.x86_64 1:1.0.9-1.el7
Note that the limits are stored in limits.d which has priority over limits.conf:
[root@instance-20180803-1152 opc]# cat /etc/security/limits.d/oracle-database-preinstall-18c.conf
# oracle-database-preinstall-18c setting for nofile soft limit is 1024
oracle soft nofile 1024
# oracle-database-preinstall-18c setting for nofile hard limit is 65536
oracle hard nofile 65536
# oracle-database-preinstall-18c setting for nproc soft limit is 16384
# refer orabug15971421 for more info.
oracle soft nproc 16384
# oracle-database-preinstall-18c setting for nproc hard limit is 16384
oracle hard nproc 16384
# oracle-database-preinstall-18c setting for stack soft limit is 10240KB
oracle soft stack 10240
# oracle-database-preinstall-18c setting for stack hard limit is 32768KB
oracle hard stack 32768
# oracle-database-preinstall-18c setting for memlock hard limit is maximum of 128GB on x86_64 or 3GB on x86 OR 90 % of RAM
oracle hard memlock 134217728
# oracle-database-preinstall-18c setting for memlock soft limit is maximum of 128GB on x86_64 or 3GB on x86 OR 90% of RAM
oracle soft memlock 134217728
Note that memlock is set to 128GB here but can be higher on machines with huge RAM (up to 90% of RAM)
And for information, here is what is set in /etc/sysctl.conf:
fs.file-max = 6815744
kernel.sem = 250 32000 100 128
kernel.shmmni = 4096
kernel.shmall = 1073741824
kernel.shmmax = 4398046511104
kernel.panic_on_oops = 1
net.core.rmem_default = 262144
net.core.rmem_max = 4194304
net.core.wmem_default = 262144
net.core.wmem_max = 1048576
net.ipv4.conf.all.rp_filter = 2
net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 2
fs.aio-max-nr = 1048576
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 9000 65500
Besides that, the preinstall rpm disables NUMA and transparent huge pages (as boot options in GRUB). It creates the oracle user (id 54321 and belonging to groups oinstall,dba,oper,backupdba,dgdba,kmdba,racdba)
Ref: https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/18/cwlin/about-the-oracle-preinstallation-rpm.html#GUID-C15A642B-534D-4E4A-BDE8-6DC7772AA9C8
18c runInstaller -silent
You find two different ‘runInstaller’ under an Oracle Home. The old one, the Oracle Universal Installer, in $ORACLE_HOME/oui/bin. And the new one, in $ORACLE_HOME directly. They have the same name but are completely different. The old one was used to install an Oracle Home from the installation media. But in 18c you don’t use it. It has been used by Oracle to build the Oracle Home image. Then you download and unzip directly your Oracle Home. You have only to configure it and re-link the binaries. And this is done by the new runInstaller which is at the root of the Oracle Home. Actually, it is just a shell script that runs the Perl dbSetup.pl to setup the Oracle Database software. In my opinion, it would be better to have it called dbSetup.sh rather than rename it to runInstaller, especially given that the same thing for Grid Infrastructure is called GridSetup.sh since 12cR2. The Perl script finally runs the Java GUI. It can also be run in command line, aka silent mode, which is the goal of this post. The command line arguments are similar, but not the same as in the old runInstaller.
Prerequisites
You may want to run the prerequisites only to check if your system is ready for the installation. Here is how to do so in command line:
# $ORACLE_HOME/runInstaller -silent -executePrereqs -responseFile $ORACLE_HOME/inventory/response/db_install.rsp
Launching Oracle Database Setup Wizard...
[FATAL] [INS-13013] Target environment does not meet some mandatory requirements.
CAUSE: Some of the mandatory prerequisites are not met. See logs for details. /u00/app/oraInventory/logs/InstallActions2018-08-11_06-07-14PM/installActions2018-08-11_06-07-14PM.log
ACTION: Identify the list of failed prerequisite checks from the log: /u00/app/oraInventory/logs/InstallActions2018-08-11_06-07-14PM/installActions2018-08-11_06-07-14PM.log. Then either from the log file or from installation manual find the appropriate configuration to meet the prerequisites and fix it manually
From there we can check the log about the tests that have failed, such as in the following example:
INFO: [Aug 11, 2018 6:08:21 PM] Physical Memory: This is a prerequisite condition to test whether the system has at least 8GB (8388608.0KB) of total physical memory.
INFO: [Aug 11, 2018 6:08:21 PM] Severity:IGNORABLE
INFO: [Aug 11, 2018 6:08:21 PM] OverallStatus:VERIFICATION_FAILED
INFO: [Aug 11, 2018 6:08:21 PM] *********************************************
INFO: [Aug 11, 2018 6:08:21 PM] Run Level: This is a prerequisite condition to test whether the system is running with proper run level.
INFO: [Aug 11, 2018 6:08:21 PM] Severity:CRITICAL
INFO: [Aug 11, 2018 6:08:21 PM] OverallStatus:VERIFICATION_FAILED
INFO: [Aug 11, 2018 6:08:21 PM] *********************************************
INFO: [Aug 11, 2018 6:08:21 PM] OS Kernel Version: This is a prerequisite condition to test whether the system kernel version is at least "2.6.39-400.211.1".
INFO: [Aug 11, 2018 6:08:21 PM] Severity:CRITICAL
INFO: [Aug 11, 2018 6:08:21 PM] OverallStatus:VERIFICATION_FAILED
Software Install
You can pass all parameters in command line (‘runInstaller -silent -help’ to see all possibilities), but in all cases you need a response file. Then I put everything I need in the response file. There’s no mention of the ORACLE_HOME because you already unzipped it at the right place. The most important is the edition which seems to accept [EE, SEONE, SE2, HP, XP, PE]. I didn’t try it but Standard Edition One is for versions <= 12.1.0.1 by the way.
cd $ORACLE_HOME
cat > db18EE.rsp <<END
oracle.install.responseFileVersion=/oracle/install/rspfmt_dbinstall_response_schema_v18.0.0
oracle.install.option=INSTALL_DB_SWONLY
UNIX_GROUP_NAME=oinstall
INVENTORY_LOCATION=/u00/app/oraInventory
ORACLE_BASE=/u00/app/oracle
oracle.install.db.InstallEdition=EE
oracle.install.db.OSDBA_GROUP=dba
oracle.install.db.OSOPER_GROUP=oper
oracle.install.db.OSBACKUPDBA_GROUP=backupdba
oracle.install.db.OSDGDBA_GROUP=dgdba
oracle.install.db.OSKMDBA_GROUP=kmdba
oracle.install.db.OSRACDBA_GROUP=dba
END
There is no need for the oracle.install.db.config variables because I’ll install the software only without creating a database.
Here is how to run the dbSetup. You can use ‘-ignorePrereqFailure’ to ignore the prerequisites if you want to install to a host where some prerequisites fail:
./runInstaller -silent -noconfig -ignorePrereqFailure -responseFile ./db18EE.rsp
The log of the installation goes into the oraInventory/logs and, as usual, you have to run the root.sh
As a root user, execute the following script(s):
1. /u00/app/oracle/product/18SE/root.sh
Execute /u00/app/oracle/product/18SE/root.sh on the following nodes: ed-olraclin1
This new runInstaller can also apply one-off patches with -applyOneOffs mentioning the patch locations. You can also build an Oracle Home image that you customize, with -createGoldImage -destinationLocation and even mention some files or path to exclude to make it smaller: -exclFiles
If you have any queries regarding this article then email me and I will respond to you. samiappsdba@gmail.com
