Re: OAS 4 questions

I would strongly recommend moving to OAS 4.0.8 and SP5. This has been the most stable configuration we have found, although your situation may be different. Even with this configuration, we have not been able to start the service automatically. Good luck.

In article <3866705E.C7CD1A29_at_hotmail.com>,   Stevie <steviep9_at_hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> a few questions, hopefully somebody can help me as all this is new to
> me.
>
> i am attempting to installing OAS.4.0.7 on NT 4 sp 3 running IIS 4 and
> Oracle RDBMS 8.0.5. this machine is behind a firewall. there are two
or
> three other machines in the network.
>
> 1) the db needs to be stopped prior to install. i went to control
> panel>services and stopped the only active oracle service i could see.
> is this all that needs to be done?
>
> You should do a shutdown immediate from the command line.
> Stopping the service performs a shutdown abort. You can see this in
the
> alert.log
> since the database is doing crash recovery upon startup
>
> a second oracle home needs to be created because of the versions of
OAS
> and Oracle. I did that. This comes into play in the next question.
>
> 2) variable TNS_ADMIN needs to be set prior to install to the location
> of tnsnames.ora. that file is in directory e:\orant\Net80\ADMIN. the
> install documentation is unclear to me. should the variable be set to
> %ORACLE_HOME%\Net80\ as one interpretation of the documentation
> suggests? Or, should it be set to e:\orant\Net80\ADMIN? Or, should it
be
> set to something else?
>
> It should be set to ...net80\admin to a valid location.
> You can install oas and then edit the current tnsnames.ora file and
connect
> via
> server manager as a test. Once configure you can keep the tns_admin or
> leave the oas home string..
>
> 3) when specifying a site name, can that be anything i choose? or,
does
> it have to relate to the name defined in IIS?
>
> anything you choose.
>
> 4) how do you set service OracleStartOAS4.0(ORACLE_HOME, ORAWEB_SITE)
to
> automatic? The documentation states that this service should not be
used
> for starting OAS from the services panel.
>
> Your help is greatly appreciated!
>
> 4.0.7.1 does not startup automatically via the control panel.
> This is a problem with the way NT starts its services.
> They have resolcve the problem in 4.0.8
>
> Bill Turner wrote:
>
> > a few questions, hopefully somebody can help me as all this is new
to
> > me.
> >
> > i am attempting to installing OAS.4.0.7 on NT 4 sp 3 running IIS 4
and
> > Oracle RDBMS 8.0.5. this machine is behind a firewall. there are
two or
> > three other machines in the network.
> >
> > 1) the db needs to be stopped prior to install. i went to control
> > panel>services and stopped the only active oracle service i could
see.
> > is this all that needs to be done?
> >
> > a second oracle home needs to be created because of the versions of
OAS
> > and Oracle. I did that. This comes into play in the next question.
> >
> > 2) variable TNS_ADMIN needs to be set prior to install to the
location
> > of tnsnames.ora. that file is in directory e:\orant\Net80\ADMIN. the
> > install documentation is unclear to me. should the variable be set
to
> > %ORACLE_HOME%\Net80\ as one interpretation of the documentation
> > suggests? Or, should it be set to e:\orant\Net80\ADMIN? Or, should
it be
> > set to something else?
> >
> > 3) when specifying a site name, can that be anything i choose? or,
does
> > it have to relate to the name defined in IIS?
> >
> > 4) how do you set service OracleStartOAS4.0(ORACLE_HOME,
ORAWEB_SITE) to
> > automatic? The documentation states that this service should not be
used
> > for starting OAS from the services panel.
> >
> > Your help is greatly appreciated!
> >
> > --
> > Bill Turner
> > Principal Consultant
> > Changent Incorporated
> >
> > www.changent.com
> > bill.turner_at_changent.com
> > Office: 612.874.8934
> > Cell: 612.644.3625
>
>

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