Index

A

adding Oracle ASM listener 1
apply patches during install
- apply patches during upgrade 1
ASM_DISKSTRING 1
ASMCA
- Used to create disk groups for older Oracle Database releases on Oracle ASM 1
asmdba groups
- creating 1
asmoper group
- creating 1
ASMSNMP 1
Automatic Diagnostic Repository (ADR) 1
Automatic Storage Management Cluster File System
- See: Oracle ACFS.

B

backupdba group
- creating 1
bash_profile file 1
Bash shell
- default user startup file 1
batch upgrade 1
binaries
- relinking 1
binary files
- supported storage options for 1
BMC
- configuring 1
BMC interface
- preinstallation tasks 1
Bourne shell
- default user startup file 1

C

central inventory 1
- See: Oracle inventory directory
- See also: OINSTALL directory, oraInventory
changing kernel parameter values 1
checkdir error 1, 2
checklists 1
clients
- and upgrades 1
- connecting to SCAN 1
- using SCAN 1
client-server configurations 1
CLUSTER_INTERCONNECTS parameter 1
cluster configuration
- Oracle Domain Services Cluster 1
- Oracle Extended Clusters 1
- Oracle Member Clusters 1
- Oracle Standalone Clusters 1
cluster file system
- storage option for data files 1
cluster name 1
- requirements for 1
cluster nodes
- private network node interfaces 1
- private node names 1
- public network node names and addresses 1
- virtual node names 1, 2
Cluster Time Synchronization Service 1
clusterware
- requirements for third party clusterware 1
Clusterware files
- OCR files and voting files 1
Clusterware Installation 1
commands
- asmca 1
- asmcmd 1
- crsctl 1
- df -h 1
- free 1
- grep MemTotal 1
- grep SwapTotal 1
- gridSetup.sh 1
- ipmitool 1
- lsmod 1
- modprobe 1
- nscd 1
- root.sh 1
- rootcrs.pl
  - and deconfig option 1
- rootcrs.sh 1
- rootupgrade.sh 1
- runcluvfy.sh 1
- srvctl 1
- sysctl 1
- umask 1
- uname —m 1
- unset 1
- useradd 1
cron jobs 1
C shell
- default user startup file 1
ctsdd 1
custom database
- failure groups for Oracle ASM 1
- requirements when using Oracle ASM 1

D

Database Configuration Assistant
- running in silent mode 1
databases
- Oracle ASM requirements 1
data files
- storage options 1
- supported storage options for 1
data loss
- minimizing with Oracle ASM 1, 2
DB_RECOVERY_FILE_DEST 1
DB_RECOVERY_FILE_DEST_SIZE 1
dba group
- creating 1
- description 1
- SYSDBA privilege 1
dba groups
- creating 1, 2
DBCA
- no longer used for Oracle ASM disk group administration 1
dbca.rsp file 1
default file mode creation mask
- setting 1
default Linux installation
- recommendation for 1
deinstall 1, 2
- See: removing Oracle software
- Oracle Member Cluster 1
deinstallation 1
- examples 1
Deinstallation tool
- Restriction for Oracle Flex Clusters and -lastnode flag 1
deinstall command 1
device names
- IDE disks 1
- RAID 1
- SCSI disks 1
df command 1
dgdba group
- creating 1
DHCP
- and GNS 1
diagnostic data 1
Direct NFS
- disabling 1
- enabling 1
- oranfstab file 1
directory
- creating separate data file directories 1
disk group
- Oracle ASM 1
- recommendations for Oracle ASM disk groups 1
disk group corruption
- preventing 1
disk groups
- checking 1
- recommendations for 1
disks
- checking availability for Oracle Automatic Storage Management 1
- displaying attached disks 1
- selecting for use with Oracle ASM 1
disk space
- requirements for preconfigured database in Oracle ASM 1
display variable 1
downgrade 1
downgrade after failed installation 1, 2, 3
downgrade after failed upgrade 1, 2, 3
downgrades 1, 2, 3, 4
downgrades restrictions 1
downgrade to 12c Release 2 (12.2) 1
downgrade to 18c 1
downgrading
- Oracle Grid Infrastructure 1, 2, 3
- Oracle Standalone Cluster 1, 2
- to 12.1 1
- to 12.2 1, 2
- to 18c 1, 2
downgrading,
- Downgrade Member Cluster 1, 2
- Oracle Grid Infrastructure 1, 2
- to 12.2 1
- to 18c 1
dry-run upgrade
- check upgrade readiness
  - Clusterware upgrade 1
- Oracle Grid Infrastructure preupgrade check 1

E

enterprise.rsp file 1
environment
- configuring for Oracle user 1
environment variables
- ORACLE_BASE 1
- ORACLE_HOME 1, 2
- ORACLE_SID 1, 2
- removing from shell startup file 1
- SHELL 1
- TEMP and TMPDIR 1
errors
- X11 forwarding 1, 2
errors using Opatch 1
errors using OPatch 1
Exadata
- relinking binaries example for 1
examples
- Oracle ASM failure groups 1
executeConfigTools 1

F

failed install 1
failed upgrade 1
failure group
- characteristics of Oracle ASM failure group 1, 2
- examples of Oracle ASM failure groups 1
- Oracle ASM 1
fast recovery area 1
- filepath 1
- Grid home
  - filepath 1
fdisk command 1
fencing
- and IPMI 1
file mode creation mask
- setting 1
files
- bash_profile 1
- dbca.rsp 1
- editing shell startup file 1
- enterprise.rsp 1
- login 1
- profile 1
- response files 1
filesets 1
file system
- storage option for data files 1

G

GIMR 1
globalization 1
GNS
- about 1
- configuration example 1
- configuring 1
GNS client clusters
- and GNS client data file 1
- GNS client data file required for installation 1
- name resolution for 1
GNS client data file
- how to create 1
GNS virtual IP address 1
grid home
- unlocking 1
grid infrastructure management repository 1
Grid Infrastructure Management Repository 1
- global 1
- local 1
gridSetup script 1, 2, 3
Grid user
- creating 1
groups
- creating the asmdba group 1
- creating the asmoper group 1
- creating the backupdba group 1
- creating the dba group 1
- creating the dgdba group 1
- creating the kmdba group 1
- creating the Oracle ASM group 1
- creating the racdba group 1
- OINSTALL 1
- OINSTALL group 1
- OSBACKUPDBA (backupdba) 1
- OSDBA (dba) 1
- OSDBA group (dba) 1
- OSDGDBA (dgdba) 1
- OSKMDBA (kmdba) 1
- OSOPER (oper) 1
- OSOPER group (oper) 1

H

hardware requirements
- display 1
- IPMI 1
- local storage for Oracle homes 1
- network 1
- RAM 1
- tmp 1
highly available IP addresses (HAIP) 1, 2
host names
- legal host names 1
hugepages 1
Hugepages, 1

I

IDE disks
- device names 1
image
- install 1
image-based installation of Oracle Grid Infrastructure 1, 2, 3
inaccessible nodes
- upgrading 1
incomplete installations 1
init.ora
- and SGA permissions 1
installation
- cloning a Grid infrastructure installation to other nodes 1
- response files 1
  - preparing 1, 2
  - templates 1
- silent mode 1
installation planning 1
installation types
- and Oracle ASM 1
installer screen
- Specify NFS Locations for ASM Disk Groups 1
- Storage Option Information 1
installer screens
- ASM Storage Option 1
- Cluster Node Information 1
- Grid Plug and Play Information 1, 2, 3
- Network Interface Usage 1
- Node Selection screen 1, 2
installing Oracle Member Cluster 1
interconnect 1
interconnects
- single interface 1
interfaces 1
- requirements for private interconnect 1
IPMI
- addresses not configurable by GNS 1
- preinstallation tasks 1
IPv4 requirements 1, 2
IPv6 requirements 1, 2

J

JDK requirements 1

K

kernel parameters
- changing 1
- displaying 1
- SUSE Linux 1
- tcp and udp 1
kernel parameters configuration 1
kmdba group
- creating 1
Korn shell
- default user startup file 1

L

legal host names 1
licensing 1
Linux kernel parameters 1
login file 1
lsdev command 1
LVM
- recommendations for Oracle ASM 1

M

Management Database 1
management repository service 1
manifest file 1
mask
- setting default file mode creation mask 1
mixed binaries 1
mode
- setting default file mode creation mask 1
multipath disks 1
Multiple Oracle Homes Support
- advantages 1
multiversioning 1

N

Name Service Cache Daemon
- enabling 1
netca.rsp file 1
Net Configuration Assistant (NetCA)
- response files 1
- running at command prompt 1
network, minimum requirements 1
network interface cards
- requirements 1
network requirements 1
networks
- configuring interfaces 1
- for Oracle Flex Clusters 1, 2
- hardware minimum requirements 1
- IP protocol requirements for 1, 2
- manual address configuration example 1
- Oracle Flex ASM 1
- required protocols 1
NFS
- and data files 1
- buffer size requirements 1
- for data files 1
NFS mounts
- Direct NFS Client
  - requirements 1
- mtab 1
- oranfstab 1
noninteractive mode
- See: response file mode

O

OCR
- See: Oracle Cluster Registry
OFA 1
- See also: Optimal Flexible Architecture
oifcfg 1
OINSTALL directory 1
OINSTALL group
- creating the oraInventory group 1
- system privileges granted by 1
OINSTALL groupl 1
- See also: Oracle Inventory directory
Opatch 1
OPatch 1
operating system
- different on cluster members 1
- parameters 1
- requirements 1
operating system privileges groups 1
operating system requirements 1
oper group
- description 1
Optimal Flexible Architecture
- about 1
ORACLE_BASE environment variable
- removing from shell startup file 1
ORACLE_HOME environment variable
- removing from shell startup file 1
ORACLE_SID environment variable
- removing from shell startup file 1
Oracle ACFS
- Installing Oracle RAC binaries not supported on Oracle Flex Cluster 1
- restrictions for Oracle Restart 1
- supported Linux x86-64 kernels 1
Oracle ASM
- characteristics of failure groups 1, 2
- disk groups 1
- failure groups 1
  - examples 1
  - identifying 1
- guidelines 1
- installing 1, 2, 3
- recommendations for disk groups 1
- space required for preconfigured database 1
Oracle ASM Filter Driver
- about 1
Oracle ASM Filter Driver (Oracle ASMFD) 1, 2
Oracle ASM group
- creating 1
Oracle ASMLIB
- about 1
- configuring 1
- deinstalling on Oracle Grid Infrastructure 1
Oracle ASM library driver (oracleasm)
- installing 1
Oracle ASM on NFS 1
Oracle ASM password file 1
oracleasm RPM
- installing 1
Oracle Automatic Storage Management
- checking disk availability 1
- displaying attached disks 1
- identifying available disks 1
- identifying disks 1
- part of Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation 1
- performance 1
Oracle Automatic Storage Management library driver
- See: Oracle ASMLIB
Oracle base 1, 2
Oracle base directory 1
Oracle Cluster Registry
- configuration of 1
Oracle Clusterware Files
- NFS to Oracle ASM 1
Oracle Database
- data file storage options 1
- requirements with Oracle ASM 1
Oracle Database Configuration Assistant 1
- response file 1
oracle-database-server preinstallation RPM 1
Oracle DBCA 1
Oracle Disk Manager
- and Direct NFS 1
Oracle Domain Services Cluster 1, 2
Oracle Enterprise Manager 1
Oracle Extended Cluster 1, 2
- converting to 1
Oracle Extended Clusters 1
Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning 1, 2
Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning Server 1
Oracle Flex ASM
- and Oracle ASM clients 1
- networks 1
Oracle Flex Clusters
- about 1
- and Oracle Flex ASM 1
- and Oracle Flex ASM cluster 1
- Oracle Restart
  - restrictions for 1
- restrictions for Oracle ACFS 1
Oracle FPP 1, 2
Oracle Grid Infrastructure
- restrictions for Oracle ACFS 1
Oracle Grid Infrastructure upgrading 1
Oracle home
- ASCII path restriction for 1
- file path 1
- Grid home
  - filepath 1
- naming conventions 1
Oracle home directory 1
Oracle Inventory 1
- identifying existing 1
Oracle Inventory Directory
- OINSTALL group 1
Oracle Inventory group
- creating 1
Oracle IO Server 1
Oracle Layered File System 1, 2
Oracle Member Clusters 1
- for applications 1
- for databases 1
Oracle Net Configuration Assistant
- response file 1
Oracle Optimal Flexible Architecture
- See: Optimal Flexible Architecture
Oracle ORAchk
- and Upgrade Readiness Assessment 1
Oracle Software Owner user
- See also: Oracle user
- creating 1, 2
Oracle Software Owner users
- configuring environment for 1
- determining default shell 1
Oracle Standalone Cluster 1
- storage option 1
Oracle Standalone Clusters 1
Oracle Universal Installer
- response files
  - list of 1
Oracle Upgrade Companion 1
oracle user 1
- creating 1
Oracle user
- configuring environment for 1
- determining default shell 1
- modifying 1
oraInventory 1, 2
- See also: Oracle Inventory group
oranfstab configuration file 1
oranfstab file 1
OSASM group
- creating 1
OSBACKUPDBA group
- creating 1
OSBACKUPDBA group (backupdba) 1
OSDBA 1
OSDBA for ASM
- creating for Oracle Grid Infrastructure 1
OSDBA groups
- creating 1
- creating for Oracle Grid Infrastructure 1
- description for database 1
- SYSDBA privilege 1
OSDGDBA group
- creating 1
OSDGDBA group (dgdba) 1
OSKMDBA group
- creating 1
OSKMDBA group (kmdba) 1
OSOPER group
- creating 1
OSOPER groups
- description for database 1
- SYSOPER privilege 1
OSRACDBA group
- creating 1
other changes 1

P

packages
- oracle-database-server preinstallation package 1
parameter file
- and permissions to read and write the SGA 1
partition
- using with Oracle ASM 1
patch updates 1
policy-managed databases
- and SCAN 1
postinstallation
- recommended tasks
  - root.sh script, backing up 1
postinstallation configToolAllCommands script 1
postinstallation -executeConfigTools option 1
preconfigured database
- Oracle ASM disk space requirements 1
- requirements when using Oracle ASM 1
primary host name 1
profile file 1
proxy realm 1
public node name
- and primary host name 1

Q

quorum disks 1
- NFS mount 1

R

racdba group
- creating 1
RAID
- device names 1
- recommended Oracle ASM redundancy level 1
recommendations
- client access to the cluster 1
- number of IP address for SCAN resolution 1
- private network 1
redundancy level
- and space requirements for preconfigured database 1
Redundant Interconnect Usage 1
- IPv4 requirement 1
registering resources 1
releases
- multiple 1
release update revisions 1
release updates 1
relinking Oracle Grid Infrastructure home binaries 1, 2, 3
removing Oracle software 1, 2
- examples 1
requiremenets
- interconnects 1
requirements 1
- for networks 1
resource parameters 1
response file 1
response file installation
- preparing 1
- response files
  - templates 1
- silent mode 1
response file mode 1
- See also: response files, silent mode
- about 1
- reasons for using 1
response files 1, 2
- See also: silent mode.
- about 1
- creating with template 1
- dbca.rsp 1
- enterprise.rsp 1
- general procedure 1
- netca.rsp 1
- Net Configuration Assistant 1
- passing values at command line 1
- specifying with Oracle Universal Installer 1
root.sh script
- backing up 1
rootcrs.pl
- restriction for Oracle Flex Cluster deinstallation 1
rootcrs.sh 1
roothas.sh 1
root user
- logging in as 1
RPMS
- for completing operating system configuration 1
running gridSetup.sh 1, 2
running multiple Oracle releases 1

S

SCAN
- required for clients of policy-managed databases 1
- shared 1
- understanding 1
SCAN address 1
SCAN addresses 1
SCAN listeners 1
SCANs 1, 2
- client access 1
- configuring 1
- description 1
SCSI disks
- device names 1
SELinux
- restrictions on Oracle ACFS 1
shared SCAN 1
shell
- determining default shell for Oracle user 1
SHELL environment variable
- checking value of 1
shell startup file
- editing 1
- removing environment variables 1
silent mode
- about 1
- reasons for using 1
silent mode installation 1
single client access names
- See: SCAN addresses
software requirements 1
space requirements 1
ssh
- and X11 Forwarding 1
- configuring 1
Standard cluster
- upgrades result in 1
standard operating environment 1
startup file
- for shell 1
stty
- suppressing to prevent installation errors 1
swap space
- allocation 1
switches
- minimum speed 1
SYSBACKUPDBA system privileges 1
SYSDBA privilege
- associated group 1
SYSDGDBA system privileges 1
SYSKMDBA system privileges 1
SYSOPER privilege
- associated group 1
system global area
- permissions to read and write 1
system privileges
- SYSBACKUPDBA 1
- SYSDGDBA 1
- SYSKMDBA 1
system requirements 1

T

tcp_rmem 1
tcp_wmem 1
TCP/IP 1
TEMP environment variable
- commands 1
  - env 1
- env command 1
- environment
  - checking settings 1
- setting 1
- umask 1
- umask command 1
terminal output commands
- suppressing for Oracle installation owner accounts 1
TMPDIR environment variable
- setting 1
token-rings
- unsupported 1
Transparent Hugepages
- disable for Oracle Database servers 1, 2
troubleshooting
- cron jobs and installation 1
- disk space errors 1
- environment path errors 1
- garbage strings in script inputs found in log files 1
- I/O lags 1
- inventory corruption 1
- nfs mounts 1
- ocssd.log threads blocked 1
- public network failures 1
- root.sh errors 1
- ssh 1, 2
- ssh errors 1
- stty errors 1
- unconfiguring Oracle Clusterware to fix causes of root.sh errors 1
- unset environment variables 1
- user equivalency 1, 2
- user equivalency errors 1
Troubleshooting
- DBCA does not recognize Oracle ASM disk size and fails to create disk groups 1
typographic conventions 1

U

umask command 1
unconfiguring Oracle Clusterware 1
uninstall
- See: removing Oracle software
UNIX commands
- fdisk 1
- lsdev 1
- xhost 1
UNIX workstation
- installing from 1
unreachable nodes
- upgrading 1
upgrade 1, 2
- Oracle Automatic Storage Management 1
- running gridSetup.sh 1, 2
upgrades 1
- and SCAN 1
- best practices 1
- restrictions for 1
- unsetting environment variables for 1
upgrade tasks 1
upgrading
- and Oracle ORAchk Upgrade Readiness Assessment 1
- inaccessible nodes 1
- options 1
useradd command 1
users
- creating the oracle user 1

V

vendor clusterware
- and cluster names for Oracle Grid Infrastructure 1
voting files
- configuration of 1

X

X11 forwarding errors 1, 2
xhost command 1
xtitle
- suppressing to prevent installation errors 1
X Window System
- enabling remote hosts 1