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Let's have a look at installing the new Oracle® Beehive 1.3.

We'll start off with a nice easy install. Two servers, database and mid tier, I'm using chemical elements for naming conventions these days so whenever you see stronium, think database, whenever you see radium, think midtier... ok? Let's get started

A few other facts for the install...

• Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 (Carthage)
• 2GB RAM
• Oracle Beehive 1.3
• Oracle Database 11.1.0.6 32bit

OK, I'm going to be running through the Oracle® Beehive Installation Guide so if you want to have that up as we go through it might make more sense...

I'm not going to get into the nitty-gritty, you can read as well as I can (plus things might change after I write this). There's a few prereqs to get through for each server version for Beehive, no surprises there.

As mentioned before, I'll be installing it against 11.1.0.6, so we need to check the prereqs for this as well.

I've added a few other patches to the database ORACLE_HOME to help things along, coz, as you can see from the Beehive install guide, they don't mention 11g just yet... so I'm trying something out here... lets hope it works. If not I'll drop back to 10g.

Lets call the database buzz13. I'll still make sure the minimum init.ora parameters are as defined in the doc, chances are the installer will check that...

ie
java_pool_size 50M (52428800)
job_queue_processes 10
processes 150
undo_retention 3600

Archive logging is on.

By the way, I'm just using dbca with the general database template so it's nice and quick.

While we're waiting for the database to finish off, lets start the mid tier install. Remember radium is our midtier server.

I spose I should take some screenshots for you hey...

OK. Here's the database going in (in the background) with the beehive installer just starting up, I run VNC on one machine and send all output to that. (easier..)

I won't show all the screens, just the important ones. Like this one, just the standard install for now.

And this, prereqs done..

I'm doing an install only. We can do the configure later. (So I've got a point to go to if it doesn't like my 11g database).

OK, so while that's going in, lets check on the database install.... all done, good. Let's quickly check it over. Off to the trusty Enterprise Console.

All looks good. OK. So Beehive has finished installing. The database is ready.

The beehive installer told me where to run the configuration wizard from:

$ORACLE_HOME/beehive/oobwiz/configWizard

Off we go.

OK, this bit needs some thinking about. Well, at least for me. It would probably be quite easy for you guys and gals that are implementing Beehive at work... But for me to make something up that I recognise and make sense...

OK, how about this:

Enterprise: ACME
Organization: Consulting
Instance: instance131a
Site: HeadQuarters

I hope this makes sense later on. Just remember if you're following along in later posts to remember what I've called it and what you've called it. No use you trying to shutdown BEEAPP_instance131a.radium. - that's mine. Get it? you will...

Anyway, onwards

It hasn't stumbled with the database, thats good.

Um, OK. It's done. Installed. How easy was that.

Next post, we'll look at the Post-Installation Procedures.
Here's something we'll probably need for that:

[orabee@radium ~]$ beectl modify_property --component _AuthenticationService --name AuthStoreType --value ldap

But more about that later.

G