Chapter 16: Installation and Administration

Overview

Installation and configuration of 10g Application Server isn't a trivial matter. There are many different products, dependencies, and deployment topologies available. It's important to understand these relationships in order to determine which one is right for your environment. Special attention must be paid to the server configuration to guarantee an error-free installation. Setting up the environment and installing the software in a logical manner is important, especially when you conduct additional installations.

Administration of the 10g Application Server is often a full-time job. It requires the skills of both a web administrator and an Oracle database administrator. Management of the product is possible by the both web-based GUI tools and command-line utilities.

In this chapter, we'll cover the following:

• Preinstallation tasks . The important steps that you must complete before attempting to install 10g AS.

• Installation and configuration of a J2EE and Web Cache middle tier

• Administration cuties. The types of duties a 10g AS administrator must perform for a production system, such as backup and recovery, managing log files, and so on.

• Graphical and command-line administration utilities. How to use the opmnctl and dcmctl utilities to administer the instance.