Tag Archives: NFS

Unable to mount NFS share

Posted by on September 19, 2008 No comments

Problem:

When mount -t nfs ebusinesstest:/u0/oracle/testdata /mnt/testdata/ executed, the following error is returned:

mount: mount to NFS server ‘ebusinesstest’ failed: RPC Error: Program not registered.

Solution:

Run:

service nfs restart

on source and target machines.

Configuring NFS to copy files

Posted by on September 18, 2008 No comments

Configuring NFS to copy database files from PROD to TEST (Cloning)

Problem:

Need to configure NFS to copy files from PROD to TEST.

Solution:

On ebusinesstest (TEST) server, use the NFS tool to create the /etc/exports file with the following data:

/u0/oracle/testdata      *(rw,sync)

On ebusiness (PROD) server, log on as the root user and mount the exported directory:

mkdir /mnt/tempdata

mount -t nfs ebusinesstest:/u0/oracle/testdata /mnt/testdata/

Installing Oracle Applications Release 12 on Demo Laptop (OEL 5.1)

Posted by on January 8, 2008 No comments

Installing Oracle Applications Release 12 on Demo Laptop (OEL 5.1)

1. Installed OEL 5.1 on 160GB hard drive: 100MB /boot; 6GB swap; remaining space /

2. Created user applmgr on initial setup

3. Created group dba, assigned group dba to user applmgr, made dba primary (and only) group for applmgr

4. On appslinux, assigned ip address and hostname (200.65.1.57, demolinux) to /etc/hosts
On demolinux, assigned ip address and hostname (200.65.1.56, appslinux) to /etc/hosts

5. On appslinux, edited /etc/exports (as root user) to include demolinux:
/u4   200.65.1.57(rw,sync)

6. Restart nfs service (as root user) on appslinux:
service nfs restart

7. On demolinux (as root user):
mkdir /mnt/u4
mount -t nfs appslinux:/u4 /mnt/u4

8. On demolinux (as root user):
mkdir /oracle
chown applmgr:dba /oracle

9. Load the /mnt/u4/StageR12/startCD/welcome.html into Firefox
Open the Rapid Install installation PDF

10. On demolinux, ensure that /tmp is accessible by all users (chmod 777 /tmp)

11. On demolinux, ensure that required maintenance tools are present:
which ar
which ld
which gcc
which g++
which ksh
which make

12. Check Metalink Doc ID: 402310.1 to ensure

a. Ensure that OS version is supported:
Minimum: Oracle Enterprise Linux: 4.0 – Update 4 or higher (32-bit)
Current: Oracle Enterprise Linux Release 5 – Update 1 [ok]

b. Ensure that kernel version is supported
Minimum: Oracle Enterprise Linux: 2.6.9-42.0.0.0.1.EL
Current: Oracle Enterprise Linux: 2.6.18-53.elPAE [ok]

13. Manually installed the following RPMs:
compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-138.i386.rpm [CD 2]
openmotif22-2.2.3-18.i386 [CD 3]

pdksh
gnome-libs
sysstat-7.0.0-3.el5.i386 [CD 3]
compat-db-4.2.52-5.1.i386.rpm [CD 3]
xscreensaver
libaio-devel-0.3.106-3.2.i386.rpm [CD 2]