Creating an Oracle Home

To create an Oracle Home

1. From the Management Console, navigate to an available node, and select Provision > Add Oracle Home.

2. In the General page, populate the following fields, and click Next.

   Field	Description
   Domain	Displays the name of the domain for the Home you are about to create.
   Host	Displays the node on which the Home resides.
   Oracle Version	Select the Oracle version for this Home.
   Template	(Optional) Select a BMC Database Automation template that contains any optional or mandatory parameters for this operation. See Managing templates for Oracle on Linux and UNIX. If you select a template, click Skip Ahead to advance directly to the next step that requires input. An information message appears in the step, in green type, listing the fields that require entries before advancing to the next step.
   Display Home Name	Type a name for this Home.

3. If the Custom Fields page appears, enter the password, and click Next.
   The Custom Fields page appears only when custom fields are defined in the BMC Database Automation XML template used for this provisioning activity. See Adding custom fields to a template.

4. In the Oracle Home Information page, populate the following fields, and click Next.

   Field	Description
   Oracle Base	Type the Oracle Base path in the file system.
   Oracle Home Location	Type the Oracle Home path in the file system. This path must be below (or the same as) the specified Oracle Base in the directory tree.
   DBA Group	Type the OS group that should have database administrator privileges inside the Oracle Home.
   Operators Group	Type the OS group that should have operator privileges inside the Oracle Home.
   Language	Select the language for this database.
   Upgrade Opatch	(Optional) Select to upgrades the version of OPatch that is installed by default to the current version on the Manager.

5. In the Oracle Home Components page, populate the following fields, and click Next.

   Field	Description
   Enterprise Options to Install	Select the Oracle Enterprise Edition components you want to install in this Oracle Home from the available components list.
   Install Example Disk	(Optional) Select to install the Example Disk, which provides additional functionality to the Oracle Home.

6. In the Configuration page, populate the following fields, and click Next.

   Field	Description
   Inventory Directory	Type the directory that is used to store Oracle's inventory.
   Oracle Installation User	Type the OS user that should own this Oracle installation.
   Oracle Installation Group	Type the OS group that should own this Oracle installation.
   Ignore Oracle OUI Prerequisite Checks	(Optional) Select to continue with this provisioning activity even when the Oracle prerequisite checks are not met.
   Fix Inventory Permissions	(Optional) Select to change the permissions on the inventory to 770, making it writeable by all users in the install group. Note: Selecting this option is recommended when the host contains Oracle Homes owned by different users and to avoid pre-verification errors.
   Fix Permissions	(Optional) Select to fix permissions on directories and files that require changes for deployment in a multi-user environment (that is, environments where different Oracle Homes on the same node are owned by different users).

7. In the Custom Scripts Configuration page, select any pre-provisioning or post-provisioning scripts that you want to run as follows, and click Next.

   Field	Description
   Pre-Provisioning Script Directory	(Optional) Select the scripts that you want to run before this event and click to move them to the Selected list box. The scripts in Selected are run in the order listed. Use Move Up and Move Down to re-order the scripts when necessary. See also Managing pre-provisioning and post-provisioning script files.
   Post-Provisioning Script Directory	(Optional) Select the scripts that you want to run after this event and click to move them to the Selected list box. See also Managing pre-provisioning and post-provisioning script files.

8. In the Job Options page, specify any of the following Job options, and click Next.

   Type	Option	Description
   Notification Emails	Email List	(Optional) Click Add Email to add email addresses to the notification list.
   Job Administration	Cleanup Agent Logs	(Optional) Select to automatically remove logs that are generated by BMC Database Automation on the Agent after the Job is complete.

9. If the Change Control page displays, populate the following fields, and click Next.

   Section	Field	Description
   	Bypass Change Control	(Optional) Select to bypass using BMC Remedy ITSM to control the change process. Selecting this option removes the rest of the fields from this page.
   	Change Control Options	Select to determine whether to open a new BMC Remedy ITSM change ticket, or to use an existing BMC Remedy ITSM change ticket to control the change process. Selecting Use Existing Change Ticket displays the fields in the Use Existing Change Ticket section on this page. Selecting Create New Change Ticket displays the fields in the Create New Change Ticket section on this page.
   Use Existing Change Ticket	ITSM Change ID	Specify the BMC Remedy ITSM change ticket number to associate with this change process.
   	ITSM Task ID	Specify the BMC Remedy ITSM task ID number to associate with this change process.
   Create New Change Ticket	Change Type	Assign the type of change for the new BMC Remedy ITSM change ticket.
   	Change Impact	Assign the impact level of this change process for the new BMC Remedy ITSM change ticket.
   	Change Urgency	Assign the urgency level for the new BMC Remedy ITSM change ticket.
   	Change Risk-Level	Assign the risk level of this change process for the new BMC Remedy ITSM change ticket.
   	Change Class	Assign the change class for the new BMC Remedy ITSM change ticket.
   	Change Summary	Type a summary of the change process.

   Note

   The Change Control page appears only when change control is configured for your environment. See Configuring change control.

10. In the Summary page, review the provisioning information.
    To make changes, do the following:
    1. Click Go to to return to the provisioning step that you want to edit.
    2. Make your changes.
    3. Click Save and Review to return to the Summary page.
11. Specify your verification preferences.
    For additional information, see Understanding pre-verification tests.
    • To continue with database creation after the pre-verification tests have been successfully run without manual intervention, select Automatically Continue If All Tests Succeed.

    • To create the database without having first run the pre-verification steps, select Skip Pre-Verification Tests.

      Note

      The Skip Pre-Verification Tests option should only be used when you are certain all tests can succeed. The option skips verification and advances directly to the actual provisioning activity.

12. Click Create Oracle Home.
    If you disabled the Automatically Continue If All Tests Succeed and Skip Pre-Verification Tests options, you are prompted to click Continue after the pre-verification steps are done.
    The Home creation process begins and a progress page appears.

    Note

    If you close your browser, the operation continues. You can return to this page by using the Jobs page.

13. Click Done to complete this step and return to the Contents view of this domain.