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Login to the Solaris machine using an X-Term emulator. Place Disk 1 of Oracle9i Application Server in the CD-ROM drive. Locate the runInstaller file on the cd and execute it.

You will see the Welcome Screen as below. In the Welcome window, click Next.

If this is the first Oracle9iAS installation on the system, then the Inventory Location screen appears. Otherwise, Oracle Universal Installer reads this information from the previous installation. If you are installing on the same machine that holds the infrastructure, ensure that you provide a different base directory. The base directory forms the base of all products. Each product component uses a different directory within the base. Select your oraInventory directory in your Home directory as the base.

For the first installation on a system, the Oracle Universal Intaller prompts you to run orainstRoot.sh script from the /tmp directory as a user with root privileges. Use another window to run orainstRoot.sh and return to this window after that.

Using another window, login as the user with root privileges and execute orainstRoot.sh script. This script creates oraInst.loc file in /var/opt/oracle directory. The oraInst.loc file contains the pointer to base directory of Oracle Inventory and identifies subsequent product installations.

After the pointer is created in Step 5, return to the Oracle Universal Installer session and click Continue.

The File Locations Screen appears which contains Source and Destination Sections.
In the Source, you will see the path from where you are installing.
The Destination consists of Name and Path.

In the Destination section, enter the following infromation.
Name : BInForms
Path : <Your HOME>/BI (You can click Browse and appropriately select the location of your Oracle home.)

Then Click Next

The Oracle Universal Installer displays the Available Products.
Select Oracle9i Application Server 9.0.2.0.0 and click Next

The Installation Types Screen appears. Select Business Intelligence and Forms and click Next.

The Component Configuration screen appears.
The Oracle9iAS components listed for configuration and startup will differ depending on the Oracle9iAS install type you choose. Keep the default and click Next

The Existing Oracle9iAS Single Sign-On screen appears. Enter the details from your installation of the Oracle9iAS Infrastructure.

Then the Oracle Internet Directory screen appears. In order to configure an instance of Oracle9iAS (J2EE and Web Cache, Portal and Wireless, Business Intelligence and Forms, or Unified Messaging) to use
Oracle9iAS Infrastructure, the instance must be registered in Oracle Internet Directory.
Enter the name of the OID administrative user, by default orcladmin, and the password. The password is usually set to the same as ias_admin user at the time of installtion of the Oracle9iAS Infrastructure.
Enter the details and click Next.

The Create Instance Name and ias_admin Password screen appears if you are installing the Oracle9iAS Business Intelligence and Forms on a separate machine for the first time. If you are locating your Oracle9iAS Infrastructure and Oracle9iAS Business Intelligence and Forms Installations on the same machine, you will see the Create Instance Name screen.
In the example, we are considering separate machines for Oracle9iAS Infrastructure and Oracle9iAS Business Intelligence and Forms.
The unique instance name will be used to identify this installation of Oracle9iAS on the install host.
The ias_admin password enables you to:
– Manage all instances of Oracle9iAS across the install host
– Run management tools including Oracle Enterprise Manager
– Facilitate future installations
The portal and portal_admin user accounts in Oracle Internet Directory use the ias_admin password by default.
Enter the same password as that you have used for ias_admin on Oracle9iAS Infrastructure for easier manageability.

The Provide Outgoing Mail Server Information screen appears. The Oracle9iAS Reports Services supports distribution of reports via email. To use this feature, you must provide the name of the outgoing mail server.
You can leave this field blank and proceed with the installation. At a later time you can make changes to the outgoing email server in the Oracle9iAS Reports Services configuration file at the following location:
ORACLE_HOME/reports/conf/reports_server_name.conf

Review the Summary screen and click Install to begin the installation process. The Summary screen allows you to review all the settings before the installation begins. These settings include source, destination, installation type, product language, install file sizes, and a list of components.

The Oracle Universal Installer proceeds with the instllation in a steps.When Oracle Universal Installer requests for the next CD, perform the following:

a. Using a separate window, eject the currently mounted CDROM.
b. Remove the CDROM from the drive, and load the requested CDROM.
c. Return to the Oracle Universal Installer window, Click Browse.
d. Confirm the location of the CDROM and click Continue

The product component files are copied, and then linked. This may take some time. You will be able to see the progress as under. You need not take any action until prompted to run some scripts as a user with root privileges.

In a separate session, login as a user with root privileges and run the root.sh from your base directory as advised by the Oracle Universal Installer in the previous step. After completing the running, return to the Oracle Universal Installer session.

Return to the Oracle Universal Installer session and click OK on the Setup Privileges window. The Oracle Universal Installer resumes the installtion. Then the Configuration tools are invoked by the Oracle Universal Installer.

During the configuration, Oracle Net Configuration assistant appears to configure Oracle Net. Check Perform Typical Configuration.

Oracle Portal Configuration Assistant is invoked as a part of the the configuration.

When the Configuration Tools have completed their task, you will see the End of Installation. In the screen hereunder you can see The installation of Oracle9iAS Business Intelligence and Forms was successful.
Here you will also see the URLs to access the Oracle HTTP Server and the Enterprise Manager.

Start Oracle Enterprise Manager:
Use an X-Term window, and login to the system as the user that installed Oracle9iAS Infrastructure.
and execute emctl start

Access Oracle Enterprise Manager Website:
Point your browser to the URL : http://<yourserver>:1810 to access the Oracle Enterprise Manager Website.
You will be prompted for the username and password. Enter the ias_admin user name and password you entered during the Oracle9iAS Infrastructure Installation.

Oracle Enterprise Manager Website:
As you can see, eventhough you had logged into the Enterprise Manager of Oracle9iAS with Business Intelligence (on swtest in this case), you will be get to the Oracle9iAS Infrastructure and Farm. You will see your instance in the list of standalone instances.

Note the port assignments using the URL : http://<yourserver>:7777/portlist

Installing Oracle9iAS Application Server Patches
Following successful installation and configuration of Oracle9i Application Server you must download and install the Oracle9i Application Server patches.
You can download the patches from: http://metalink.oracle.com
1. Select the Patches link.
2. Select Oracle9i Application Server in the Product Family field on the patch download form and
3. Submit the form.
The patch installation instructions are available with the patches