ODA deployment

ODA has a new CLI called OAKCLI(Oracle Appliance Kit Command Line Interface) . This can be used for multiple purposes. Untill ODA version x4, "oakcli" needs to run as "root" user. It is now changed in X5 wehere sudo permissions are incorporated for the oakcli command. Here is a command line help for oakcli.


root@oda1rac0 /root #oakcli -h
Usage:  oakcli show       - show disk, diskgroup, expander, controller, server, processor, memory, power, cooling, network, enclosure, storage, version, fs, raidsyncstatus, dbhomes, dbstorage, databases, db_config_params, core_config_key, env_hw, asr
        oakcli apply      - applies the core_config_key
        oakcli locate     - locates a disk
        oakcli deploy     - deploys the Database Appliance
        oakcli update     - updates the Database Appliance
        oakcli validate   - validates the Database Appliance
        oakcli manage     - manages the oak repository, diagcollect e.t.c
        oakcli unpack     - unpack the given package to oak repository
        oakcli copy       - copies the deployment config file
        oakcli upgrade    - upgrades database
        oakcli stordiag   - run storage diagnostic tool on both node
        oakcli test       - test asr
        oakcli orachk     - performs configuration settings check on ODA
        oakcli configure  - configures the network or asr
        oakcli create     - creates database, dbstorage, snapshotdb, dbhome, db_config_params file
        oakcli delete     - deletes database, dbstorage, dbhome, db_config_params file
        oakcli resize     - resizes dbstorage

root@oda1rac0 /root #

To install ODA, we can run the deployment wizard - the Oracle Database Appliance – Appliance Manager at the below link.

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E22693_01/doc.12/e22692/deploy.htm#CHDCABHA

The wizard calls the following command:

oakcli deploy

Manual Execution:

root@oak1 /opt/oracle/oak/onecmd #./GridInst.pl -l

INFO   : Logging all actions in /dev/null and traces in /dev/null

INFO   : Loading configuration file /opt/oracle/oak/onecmd/onecommand.params...

The steps in order are...

Step  0 = ValidateParamFile

Step  1 = SetupNetwork

Step  2 = WriteNodelists

Step  3 = SetupSSHroot

Step  4 = SetupDNS

Step  5 = UpdateEtcHosts

Step  6 = SetTimezone

Step  7 = SetupNTP

Step  8 = SetupILOM

Step  9 = ValidateEnv

Step 10 = CreateUsers

Step 11 = SetupStorage

Step 12 = SetupSSHusers

Step 13 = InstallGIClone

Step 14 = RunGIClonePl

Step 15 = RunRootScripts

Step 16 = GIConfigAssists

Step 17 = CreateASMDiskgroups

Step 18 = InstallDBClone

Step 19 = RunDBClonePl

Step 20 = DbcaDB

Step 21 = SetupACFS

Step 22 = SetupASR

Step 23 = ResecureMachine