Setup Oracle GoldenGate Director 11g  

Objective

·    This note describes the instructions for the installation of Oracle GoldenGate 11g (11.x.x) version. 

·    You can download the Oracle Golden Gate director installer for your specific platform, from http://download.oracle.com

·    We are using Weblogic 10.3.2 (32 bit) for RHEL 5 64 bit platform for this setup to deploy the GG Director application.

·    You also need JRE 1.6 or higher for the installation of the director client.

·    You can install director client for your specific platform on the same server where Director Server runs or any other system (requires connectivity to Director Server)

Prerequisites -

 Please make sure you have following components installed and configured properly.

• JRE 1.6 or higher
• Weblogic server 11g R1
• Oracle DB 10gR2 or 11gR2 with schema created for GG Director Repository

• You need to have firewall disabled on your system to prevent the blocking of any ports.

• You may also need to configure the VNC Server or X-Manager to enable GUI.

Installation Instructions

• Once you have downloaded the GG Director installer, you need to unzip it first.
• Once unzipped, you need to installation script as follows.

# su - oracle

#. /gg-director-serversetup_unix_v11_1_1_0_0_005.sh

Issues during installation:


During the start of the install the GUI install was not starting up even though i have correct version of JRE. Even after researching a lot on Metalik, couldn't find what the real problem. Hence I raised an SR with MOS to find out the niggle and they came up with following solution. 



=== ODM Solution /Action Plan ===


To implement the solution, please execute the following steps:


1. Go to your unix prompt
2. set below environment variables in .profile or you can set export statement.
PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
3. Also, we've set the classpath like below:
CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$JAVA_HOME/lib
4. Retest the issue.
5. Migrate the solution as appropriate to other environments

After implementing the solution the screen appeared as follows.

Enter the path of the GG Director  HOME where Director Server will be installed

Select Oracle Database (where your repository resides)…

Enter Host name, DB Name and port where DB is running.

Enter Host name, DB Name and port where DB is running.

Enter username where packages and objects for director will be installed. In this case its installed in ggdirector schema (ggdirector/ggdirector1)

Click on Install ...

Next, Extracting files on your server

Installation configured and director is configured now..

Thus your director is installed. You have to configure the director for monitoring your existing extracts/replicats and setup the notification of the same if they went down.

To access the director, you have to start and connect to director host thru VNC or X on your desktop. Then go to GG_Director_Home directory, then navigate to bin sub directory and execute ggdirector executable.

# ./ggdirector

This will open up GUI console for Director which you can use setup monitoring configuration.