Re: Moving OAS Metadata Repository
Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2012 18:23:38 +0200
Message-ID: <50744F8A.20606_at_gmail.com>
Hi Alan,
my mistake: you're right, the database MR tier has the hostname limitation. There's an alternative, but it's really hard (if you could go with hosts/DNS changes, it will be definitely easier):
docs.oracle.com/cd/B14099_19/core.1012/b13995/prodtest.htm
Regards
Dimitre
On 09/10/2012 17:37, Guillermo Alan Bort wrote:
> Dimitre,
>
> thanks for your reply. I think I'm missing something. If I remember
> correctly OAS (in all honesty it's been about 5 years since I
> installed one). You have the three following "tiers".
>
> 1. Metadata Repository: This is a database that pretty much holds OID,
> SSO and Discoverer info.
> 2. Infra: SSO, OID, etc. These apps connect directly to the MR Database
> 3. Middle Tier: disco, forms, reports, etc. They connect to the db and
> infra services.
>
> The doc says that it's the MR that cannot change the hostname because
> there are a lot of places where the hostname is recorded (config
> files, tables, etc) and it would be "technically unfeasible to write a
> script to update all these locations".
>
> Cheers
> Alan.-
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Radoulov, Dimitre
> <cichomitiko_at_gmail.com <mailto:cichomitiko_at_gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> On 09/10/2012 16:18, Guillermo Alan Bort wrote:
>
> From what I understand from Oracle's Documentation, the
> only way to
> "move" a Metadata Repository for a OAS 10g (10.1.2.3.0) is to
> keep the
> hostname and that fay "fool" the infra and middle tiers
> (namely OID) to use
> the new machine, but with the same name. Now, my issue with
> this is that
> the original DB is in a RAC, and the nodes will be repurposed,
> so we can
> reuse the hostnames, but the new nodes already have
> hostnames... so they
> would have to be DNS aliases, really.
>
> Does anyone have experience moving the MR from a full OAS
> to another
> physical machine? Any experiences you care to share?
>
>
> Hi Alan,
> _if I recall correctly_, the hostname constraint applies only to
> MR node[s] (where the OID binaries reside).
> Changing the hostname _of the database_ (the RAC nodes, in your
> case) shouldn't be a problem.
>
>
>
> Regards
> Dimitre
>
>
>
>
>
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