Oracle Database 12c Release 2 (12.2) Installation on Oracle Enterprise Linux 6 (OEL6)

This article describes the installation of Oracle Database 12c Release 2 on Oracle Enterprise Linux 6 (OEL6) on VirtualBox.

Introduction:

For installing 12cR2 in your laptop or desktop computer has minimum 4 GB or more of RAM required, and minimum 30GB storage required and used oracle virtualBox showed in this article.

This article uses the 64-bit versions of Oracle Enterprise Linux, and Oracle 12c Release 2 (12.2.0.1).

Prerequisite: Oracle Enterprise Linux 6 Install on VirtualBox

Download Software:

Download Oracle 12cR2 database software for Linux x86-64 from OTN or Edelivery and copy the files to linux server (on VirtualBox) using winscp or shared folder.

OS Configuration and Preparation:

1) Add the following lines to the "/etc/sysctl.conf" file

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            

2) Run the following command to change the current kernel parameters.

/sbin/sysctl -p           

3) Add the following lines to "/etc/security/limits.conf" file

oracle   soft   nofile    1024
oracle   hard   nofile    65536
oracle   soft   nproc    16384
oracle   hard   nproc    16384
oracle   soft   stack    10240
oracle   hard   stack    32768
oracle   hard   memlock    134217728
oracle   soft   memlock    134217728          

4) Create the new groups and users.

#groups for database management
groupadd -g 54321 oinstall
groupadd -g 54322 dba
groupadd -g 54323 oper         

Add user Oracle for database software

useradd -u 54321 -g oinstall -G dba,oper oracle          

5) Set the password for the "oracle" user.

passwd oracle           

6) The following packages are listed as required, including the 32-bit version of some of the packages. Many of the packages should be installed already.

 # OL6 and OL7 (RHEL6 and RHEL7)
yum install binutils -y
yum install compat-libcap1 -y
yum install compat-libstdc++-33 -y
yum install compat-libstdc++-33.i686 -y
yum install glibc -y
yum install glibc.i686 -y
yum install glibc-devel -y
yum install glibc-devel.i686 -y
yum install ksh -y
yum install libaio -y
yum install libaio.i686 -y
yum install libaio-devel -y
yum install libaio-devel.i686 -y
yum install libX11 -y
yum install libX11.i686 -y
yum install libXau -y
yum install libXau.i686 -y
yum install libXi -y
yum install libXi.i686 -y
yum install libXtst -y
yum install libXtst.i686 -y
yum install libgcc -y
yum install libgcc.i686 -y
yum install libstdc++ -y
yum install libstdc++.i686 -y
yum install libstdc++-devel -y
yum install libstdc++-devel.i686 -y
yum install libxcb -y
yum install libxcb.i686 -y
yum install make -y
yum install nfs-utils -y
yum install net-tools -y
yum install smartmontools -y
yum install sysstat -y
yum install unixODBC -y
yum install unixODBC-devel -y

# Required for 12.1, not listed for 12.2
yum install gcc -y
yum install gcc-c++ -y
yum install libXext -y
yum install libXext.i686 -y
yum install zlib-devel -y
yum install zlib-devel.i686 -y

# OL6 only (RHEL6 only)
yum install e2fsprogs -y
yum install e2fsprogs-libs -y
yum install libs -y
yum install libxcb.i686 -y
yum install libxcb -y         

7) Create directory structure as user root

mkdir -p /u01/app/oracle/product/12.2.0/dbhome_1
chown -R oracle:dba /u01
chmod -R 775 /u01          

Installation:

1) Log into the oracle user. If you are using X emulation then set the DISPLAY environmental variable.

DISPLAY=<machine-name>:0.0; export DISPLAY           

2) Unizp software it will create directory "database". Goto database directory and Start the Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) by issuing the following command.

-bash-4.1$ ls -rlt                                                                                                           
total 3376056                                                                                                                
drwxr-xr-x 7 oracle dba       4096 Jan 26  2017 database
-rw-r--r-- 1 oracle dba 3453696911 Mar  1  2017 linuxx64_12201_database.zip
-bash-4.1$
-bash-4.1$
-bash-4.1$ cd database/
-bash-4.1$ ls -rlt
total 36
-rwxr-xr-x  1 oracle dba  500 Feb  6  2013 welcome.html
drwxr-xr-x  4 oracle dba 4096 Jan 26  2017 install
-rwxr-xr-x  1 oracle dba 8771 Jan 26  2017 runInstaller
drwxr-xr-x  2 oracle dba 4096 Jan 26  2017 rpm
drwxrwxr-x  2 oracle dba 4096 Jan 26  2017 sshsetup
drwxrwxr-x  2 oracle dba 4096 Jan 26  2017 response
drwxr-xr-x 14 oracle dba 4096 Jan 26  2017 stage
-bash-4.1$ ./runInstaller
Starting Oracle Universal Installer...

Checking Temp space: must be greater than 500 MB.   Actual 3752 MB    Passed
Checking swap space: must be greater than 150 MB.   Actual 16383 MB    Passed
Checking monitor: must be configured to display at least 256 colors.    Actual 65536    Passed
Preparing to launch Oracle Universal Installer from /tmp/OraInstall2018-02-23_09-32-39PM. Please wait                     




3) Uncheck checkbox "I wish to receive security updates via My Oracle Support" and then click "Next" button.

4) Ignore following message and click “Yes” button.

5) Select install option, Here I have choosen "Install database software only", to install the database software. 

You can choose "Create and configure a database" option, If you want to install database software and create database in single shot.

6) Select Database Installation Option, Accept default “Single instance database installation” and click “Next” button 

7) Select Database Edition, You can select here type of binaries to install. Once it’s done click “Next” button.

8) Installation Location, here you should see directories for ORACLE_BASE and ORACLE_HOME for your binaries according to environmental settings. Click “Next” button.

9) Operating system groups, here you can specify OS group for each oracle group. Change default groups to dba and click “Next” button.

10) Summary, If everything isfine, then click “Install” button. It’s the last moment to come back to each of previous point and make changes.

11) Product installation

12) Execute configuration script, once binaries are installed the last step is to run root.sh script as user root.  

13) After successful installation click "Close" button.

That's it. Installed the Oracle 12cR2 software on Oracle Enterprise linux 6.

In my next post will cover database creation.

Thanks,
Chowdari

ORA-04063 APPS.AD_ZD_ADOP Package Invalid After Applied Database Bundle Patch

ADOP prepare phase was failing after applied the latest database bundle Patch on the RDBMS ORACLE_HOME of an EBS R12.2 database. The APPS.AD_ZD_ADOP Package becomes invalid and due to that all ADOP sessions got failed. See below error details.

[oracle@ebshyd01 ]$ echo $FILE_EDITION
run

[oracle@ebshyd01 ]$ adop phase=prepare

Enter the APPS password:
Enter the SYSTEM password:
Enter the WLSADMIN password:

Validating credentials.

Initializing.
Run Edition context : /u01/EBSPRDB/fs1/inst/apps/EBSPRDB_ebshyd01/appl/admin/EBSPRDB_ebshyd01.xml
Patch edition context: /u01/EBSPRDB/fs2/inst/apps/EBSPRDB_ebshyd01/appl/admin/EBSPRDB_ebshyd01.xml
Patch file system free space: 125.88 GB

Validating system setup.

[ERROR] Failed to execute SQL statement:
select AD_ZD_ADOP.GET_INVALID_NODES() from dual
[ERROR] Error Message:
[ERROR] ORA-04063: package body "APPS.AD_ZD_ADOP" has errors (DBD ERROR: OCIStmtExecute)
[UNEXPECTED]Error determining whether this is a multi-node instance

[STATEMENT] Please run adopscanlog utility, using the command

"adopscanlog -latest=yes"

to get the list of the log files along with snippet of the error message corresponding to each log file.

adop exiting with status = 2 (Fail)

[oracle@ebshyd01 ]$

And check ADOP status:

[oracle@ebshyd01 ]$ adop -status

Enter the APPS password:

==============================================================
ADOP (C.Delta.7)
Session Id: 45
Command: status
Output: /u01/EBSPRDB/fs_ne/EBSapps/log/status_20171230_112514/adzdshowstatus.out
===================================wo============================

File System Synchronization Type: Full
declare
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-04063: package body "APPS.AD_ZD_ADOP" has errors
ORA-06508: PL/SQL: could not find program unit being called: "APPS.AD_ZD_ADOP"
ORA-06512: at line 6

[STATEMENT] Please run adopscanlog utility, using the command

"adopscanlog -latest=yes"

to get the list of the log files along with snippet of the error message corresponding to each log file.

adop exiting with status = 1 (Fail)
[oracle@ebshyd01 ]$           

Solution:

First check the status of APPS.AD_ZD_ADOP object:

SQL> select owner, object_name,object_type, status from dba_objects where object_name='AD_ZD_ADOP';

OWNER       OBJECT_NAME           OBJECT_TYPE             STATUS 
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
APPS        AD_ZD_ADOP            PACKAGE                 VALID                                                               
APPS        AD_ZD_ADOP            PACKAGE BODY            INVALID

SQL> 

See the object APPS.AD_ZD_ADOP package body is INVALID state, so try to compile the APPS.AD_ZD_ADOP package

SQL> alter package AD_ZD_ADOP compile body;

Warning: Package Body altered with compilation errors.

SQL> show error
Errors for PACKAGE BODY AD_ZD_ADOP:

LINE/COL ERROR
-------- -----------------------------------------------------------------
2686/3 PL/SQL: Statement ignored
2686/7 PLS-00201: identifier 'SYS.DBMS_METADATA_UTIL' must be declared
==================

SQL>          

The above error indicates that, the SYS.DBMS_METADATA_UTIL object needs to be recompiled first before the APPS.AD_ZD_ADOP object can become valid. See the above error looks some privileges issue.

This package became invalid due to incorrect execution of adgrants.sql script. We should always execute the correct version of the adgrants.sql. We should ensure we have applied "adgrants.sql" script from the the applied AD code level.

And here I am just giving the execute privilege to APPS user on SYS.DBMS_METADATA_UTIL. Then compile the APPS.AD_ZD_ADOP Package.

SQL> conn / as sysdba
Connected.

SQL> grant execute on DBMS_METADATA_UTIL to apps;

Grant succeeded.

SQL>
SQL> conn apps
Enter password:
Connected.

SQL> 
SQL> alter package AD_ZD_ADOP compile body;

Package body altered.

SQL> 

SQL> select owner, object_name,object_type, status from dba_objects where object_name='AD_ZD_ADOP';

OWNER       OBJECT_NAME           OBJECT_TYPE             STATUS 
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
APPS        AD_ZD_ADOP            PACKAGE                 VALID                                                               
APPS        AD_ZD_ADOP            PACKAGE BODY            VALID

SQL>

Rerun the ADOP utilities:

[oracle@ebshyd01 ]$ adop -status

Enter the APPS password:

==============================================================
ADOP (C.Delta.7)
Session Id: 45
Command: status
Output: /u01/EBSPRDB/fs_ne/EBSapps/log/status_20171230_121228/adzdshowstatus.out
===============================================================

File System Synchronization Type: Full

adop exiting with status = 0 (Success)

[oracle@ebshyd01 ]$   

So now run "adop phase=prepare", ADOP cycle will complete without any further issues.

Please give your comment, If this article helps you..

Thanks,
Chowdari