Installing Oracle and Blackboard on Centos

This is a guide for creating a Development installation using Centos. If you want to create a production instance of Blackboard, please refer to the official Blackboard documentation.

Install latest Centos on a machine (6.2 x86_64)
vi /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/fastestmirror.conf
```
include_only=mirror.aarnet.edu.au
```
yum update ; reboot

vi /etc/sysconfig/iptables

-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 443 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 2222 -j ACCEPT
-A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 1521 -j ACCEPT

/etc/init.d/iptables restart
chkconfig --level 2345 sshd on #enable sshd at startup

vi /etc/sysctl.conf

fs.suid_dumpable = 1
fs.aio-max-nr = 1048576
fs.file-max = 6815744
kernel.shmmni = 4096
# semaphores: semmsl, semmns, semopm, semmni
kernel.sem = 250 32000 100 128
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 9000 65500
net.core.rmem_default=4194304
net.core.rmem_max=4194304
net.core.wmem_default=262144
net.core.wmem_max=1048586

vi /etc/security/limits.conf

oracle              soft    nproc   2047
oracle              hard    nproc   16384
oracle              soft    nofile  4096
oracle              hard    nofile  65536
oracle              soft    stack   10240

Install necessary packages

yum install binutils compat-libcap1 compat-libstdc++-33 elfutils-libelf-devel elfutils-libelf gcc-c++ gcc glibc glibc-common glibc-devel glibc-headers ksh libaio-devel libaio libgcc libstdc++-devel libstdc++ make nss-softokn freebl numactl-devel sysstat unixODBC unixODBC-devel

Create groups and users

groupadd -g 501 oinstall
groupadd -g 502 dba
groupadd -g 503 oper
groupadd -g 504 asmadmin
groupadd -g 506 asmdba
groupadd -g 505 asmoper
useradd -u 502 -g oinstall -G dba,asmdba,oper oracle
passwd oracle

vi /etc/selinux/config
```
SELINUX=disabled
```
Reboot
Log in as oracle

vi .bash_profile

# Oracle Settings
TMP=/tmp; export TMP
TMPDIR=$TMP; export TMPDIR
ORACLE_HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain; export ORACLE_HOSTNAME
ORACLE_UNQNAME=bb9; export ORACLE_UNQNAME
ORACLE_BASE=/home/oracle/app/oracle; export ORACLE_BASE
ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/product/11.2.0/db_1; export ORACLE_HOME
ORACLE_SID=bb9; export ORACLE_SID
PATH=/usr/sbin:$PATH; export PATH
PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$PATH; export PATH
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib:/lib:/usr/lib; export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
CLASSPATH=$ORACLE_HOME/jlib:$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/jlib; export CLASSPATH

Reboot
Install Oracle 11.2 as oracle user
```
cd database
./runInstaller
```

Create /etc/init.d/dbora

#!/bin/sh
# chkconfig: 345 99 10
# description: Oracle auto start-stop script.
#
# Set ORA_HOME to be equivalent to the $ORACLE_HOME
# from which you wish to execute dbstart and dbshut;
#
# Set ORA_OWNER to the user id of the owner of the
# Oracle database in ORA_HOME.
export ORACLE_BASE=/home/oracle/app/oracle
export ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_BASE/product/11.2.0/db_1
export ORACLE_HOME_LISTNER=$ORACLE_HOME
export ORACLE_OWNR=oracle
export ORACLE_OWNER=oracle
export ORACLE_SID=bb9
export ORACLE_UNQNAME=bb9
export ORACLE_HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain
export PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/bin
if [ ! -f $ORACLE_HOME/bin/dbstart -o ! -d $ORACLE_HOME ]
then
    echo "Oracle startup: cannot start"
    exit 1
fi
case "$1" in
    start)
        # Oracle listener and instance startup
        echo -n "Starting Oracle: "
        su $ORACLE_OWNR -c "$ORACLE_HOME/bin/emctl start dbconsole"
        su $ORACLE_OWNR -c "$ORACLE_HOME/bin/lsnrctl start"
        su $ORACLE_OWNR -c "$ORACLE_HOME/bin/dbstart $ORACLE_HOME"
        touch /var/lock/subsys/dbora
        echo "OK"
        ;;
    stop)
        # Oracle listener and instance shutdown
        echo -n "Shutdown Oracle: "
        su $ORACLE_OWNR -c "$ORACLE_HOME/bin/lsnrctl stop"
        su $ORACLE_OWNR -c "$ORACLE_HOME/bin/dbshut $ORACLE_HOME"
        su $ORACLE_OWNR -c "$ORACLE_HOME/bin/emctl stop dbconsole"
        rm -f /var/lock/subsys/dbora
        echo "OK"
        ;;
    reload|restart)
        $0 stop
        $0 start
        ;;
    *)
        echo "Usage: `basename $0` start|stop|restart|reload"
        exit 1
esac
exit 0

Add dbora to startup and shutdown proceedure
```
chkconfig --add dbora
```

vi /etc/oratab

bb9:/home/oracle/app/oracle/product/11.2.0/db_1:Y

Add latest Java 1.6 rpm from Oracle

chmod +x jdk-6u31-linux-x64-rpm.bin
./jdk-6u31-linux-x64-rpm.bin

Make sure the bbuser account exists. Otherwise your build will fail
Run blackboard installer AS ROOT
```
java -jar bb-as-linux-9.1.82223.0.jar
```

Create /etc/init.d/blackboard

#!/bin/bash
# chkconfig: 345 99 10
# description: Blackboard auto start-stop script.
#
#       /etc/rc.d/init.d/blackboard
#
# This shell script takes care of starting and stopping Blackboard
#
#
BLACKBOARD_DIR=/opt/blackboard
case "$1" in
    start)
        $BLACKBOARD_DIR/tools/admin/ServiceController.sh services.start
        ;;
    stop)
        $BLACKBOARD_DIR/tools/admin/ServiceController.sh services.stop
        ;;
    status)
        $BLACKBOARD_DIR/tools/admin/ServiceController.sh services.status
        ;;
    restart)
        $BLACKBOARD_DIR/tools/admin/ServiceController.sh services.restart
        ;;
    *)
        echo "Usage:  {start|stop|status|restart}"
        exit 1
        ;;
esac
exit $?

Add blackboard to startup and shutdown proceedure
```
chkconfig \--add blackboard
```
vi /etc/inittab
```
id:3:initdefault:
```
reboot

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