Creating an Oracle Home

Note

If you are upgrading from BMC Database Automation versions prior to 8.7, you must first enable the discovery and provisioning of Oracle Homes before creating the Home. For new installations of version 8.7 and later, the required settings are enabled by default.

To create an Oracle Home

Tip

To enable a global option in BMC Database Automation that allows the Oinstall user name value to begin with a number, you must set can_oinstall_user_start_with_number to true in /app/clarity/dmanager/etc/d2500_config or contact Customer Support for assistance.

  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.

  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.

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

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

  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.

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

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

    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.

 

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