ARCHIBUS works with several database servers. With this system architecture, you can choose the server that best suits your needs, best integrates with your other corporate databases, or is easiest for your system managers to support.
This section discusses how to use ARCHIBUS with the Oracle family of servers from Oracle Corporation. This section is intended for IT managers who are installing ARCHIBUS at their site.
This section presumes you are very familiar with Oracle database administration.
This document describes a typical scenario for installing ARCHIBUS for use with an Oracle 9i or 10g. Because the installation instructions cover multiple versions of the Oracle Workgroup Server, the ARCHIBUS installation procedure installs multiple versions of the files that you need for configuring ARCHIBUS for use with Oracle. Files for Oracle 9i contain "9" in the file name. For example:
If you have another type of network, you or your database administrator should refer to this typical ARCHIBUS installation and modify it to fit your own Oracle installation.
This section has the following components:
Before you Begin discusses site preparation and overviews the installation procedures.
Setting up the Database Server discusses loading Oracle and the ARCHIBUS database schema on your database server computer.
Troubleshooting your Oracle Installation overviews common connection issues.
You may be using the same computer in more than one role. For example, you might use the same computer as both the file and the database server, or you might even use the same computer as the file server, the database server, and the client workstation. In this case, you follow the same procedures outlined in this document, only you perform the steps on the same computer rather than on different computers.
Using Oracle 10g Release 2 provides instructions for working with the patches required for this release.
Note: The Oracle
database server includes a robust technology for connecting client workstations
to servers running on a multitude of different platforms. As a result,
by using the Oracle database products, ARCHIBUS can work with different
Oracle servers, such as those running on UNIX servers.
Because Oracle has such a broad product line, it is beyond the scope of
this documentation or of the standard ARCHIBUS technical support offered
by ARCHIBUS, Inc. to cover the installation of the Oracle product itself.
All ARCHIBUS installations with Oracle should be performed only by
an Oracle-certified database administrator.
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