Adding a database to an Oracle cluster
Before you begin
- A running Oracle Cluster Ready Services (CRS) cluster currently managed by BMC Database Automation (BDA) must be available.
- The node must meet all of the Oracle database prerequisites.
To add a database to an Oracle cluster
- From the Management Console, select the cluster within which you want to create an Oracle database.
- Select Provision > Add Oracle Database.
In the Database Naming Information page, populate the following fields, and click Next.
- 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 BDA XML template used for this provisioning activity. See Adding-custom-fields-to-a-template. - In the Oracle Home Selection page, select an Oracle Home from the Use Existing Home list box or create a new one, and click Next.
The Oracle Home Selection page appears only when an Oracle Home is not defined for the version of the database being provisioned.
If you selected Create New Home, proceed to the next step.
If you selected an existing home, proceed to step 8. In the Oracle Home Information page, provision the following fields, and click Next.
In the Oracle Home Components page, populate the following fields, and click Next.
In the Configuration page, populate the following fields, and click Next.
- In the Database Options page, check the boxes for each of the database options you want.
The following figure shows the Oracle 12.2 Database Options page:
If you select an option with a list box, select a tablespace from the list box, and click Next.
These options require a tablespace to place the data into. In the Custom Scripts Configuration page, select any pre-provisioning or post-provisioning scripts that you want to run as follows, and click Next.
In the Database Parameters page, populate the following fields, and click Next.
- If you selected Use ASM, go to the next step.
If you did not enable the use of ASM, go to step 15. In the ASM Storage page, populate the following fields, and click Next.
In the Control Files page, provision the following fields, and click Next.
In the Directories page, populate the following fields, and click Next.
In the Tablespaces page, configure the various tablespace types as follows, and click Next.
In the Redo Logs page, populate the following fields, and click Next.
In the Job Options page, specify any of the following Job options, and click Next.
If the Change Control page displays, populate the following fields, and click Next.
- In the Summary page, review the provisioning information.
To make changes, do the following:- Click Go to to return to the provisioning step that you want to edit.
- Make your changes.
- Click Save and Review to return to the Summary page.
- 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.
Click Create Oracle Database.
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 database creation process begins and a progress page appears.
A pop-up window appears upon successful creation of the database.- Click the magnifying glass icon to view log file details.
- If this procedure was not successful, see Troubleshooting.
Click Done to complete this step and return to the Contents view of this domain.