Preface

The Oracle8i Parallel Server Setup and Configuration guide provides the information you need to install, configure and manage Oracle Parallel Server in an Oracle8i environment.

This preface includes the following topics:

• Intended Audience

• Prerequisites

• Structure

• Related Documents

• Documentation and Code Conventions

• Your Comments Are Welcome

Intended Audience

The information in this guide is intended primarily for network or database administrators (DBAs) responsible installation and configuration of Oracle Parallel Server.

Prerequisites

This guide assumes that you are familiar with:

• the target operating system and have installed and tested it for the cluster and network hardware

• object relational database management concepts

Structure

This guide contains eight chapters and three appendices.

Chapter 1, "Introducing Oracle Parallel Server"

Describes the main features and components of Oracle Parallel Server.

Chapter 2, "Pre-Installation"

Describes the specific hardware and software, raw device, and pre-installation requirements for installing Oracle Parallel Server.

Chapter 3, "Installation"

Describes how to install the components needed for Oracle Parallel Server.

Chapter 4, "Configuring Oracle Parallel Server"

Describes how to configure and start an Oracle Parallel Server database, as well as configure networking components.

Chapter 5, "Installing and Configuring Oracle Parallel Server Management"

Describes the tasks to install and configure Oracle Enterprise Manager and Oracle Performance Manager for parallel server management.

Chapter 6, "Administering Oracle Parallel Server"

Describes Oracle Parallel Server initialization files and administration of Oracle Parallel Server with the Oracle Enterprise Manager Console.

Chapter 7, "Monitoring Performance with Oracle Parallel Server Management Charts"

Describes how to use Oracle Performance Manager to generate metric charts for Oracle Parallel Server databases.

Chapter 8, "Adding Instances and Nodes"

Describes how to add nodes to an existing cluster, and how to migrate from an single-instance database to multiple instances.

Appendix A, "Directory Structure"

Describes the directory structure for Oracle Parallel Server.

Appendix B, "Oracle Parallel Server Management on UNIX Reference"

Provides reference information for Oracle Parallel Server Management on UNIX.

Appendix C, "Troubleshooting"

Describes how to resolve common Oracle Parallel Server configuration problems.

Glossary

Provides brief descriptions of terms used throughout this guide.

Related Documents

For more information, see the following user guides:

• Oracle8i Administrator's Reference for Sun Solaris, HP 9000 or AIX-based systems

• Oracle8i Installation Guide for Sun Solaris, HP 9000 or AIX-based systems

• Oracle8i Enterprise Edition Installation for Windows NT

• Oracle8i Parallel Server Getting Started for Windows NT

• Oracle8i Concepts

• Net8 Administrator's Guide

• Getting to Know Oracle8i

• Oracle8i Parallel Server Concepts and Administration

• Oracle8i Reference

• Oracle Enterprise Manager Installation

• Oracle Enterprise Manager Configuration Guide

• Oracle Enterprise Manager Administrator's Guide

• Oracle Diagnostics Installation

• Oracle Enterprise Manager Performance Monitoring and Planning Guide

Documentation and Code Conventions

The following conventions are used in this guide:

Convention	Example	Meaning
UPPERCASE	LISTENER.ORA	Calls attention to SQL commands, keywords, file names, and initialization parameters. Most Oracle files names on UNIX are lowercase.
lowercase courier	$ORACLE_HOME/network/admin startup;	Indicates directories, commands and case-sensitive parameters. Most directories and commands on UNIX are lowercase.
Italic	Italic is used to indicate a variable: filename Italic is used for emphasis: The WHERE clause may be used to join rows in different tables.	Indicates a value that you must provide. For example, if a command asks you to type filename, you must type the actual name of the file. Italic is also used for emphasis in the text and to indicate the titles of other guides.
Choose Start >	Choose Start > Programs > Oracle-HOME_NAME > Oracle Enterprise Management > Enterprise Manager Console	Indicates how to start a program on Windows platforms.
Forward slash (\) before a directory name	/network	A subdirectory on UNIX platforms.
Backslash (\) before a directory name	\network	A subdirectory on Windows platforms.
$ORACLE_HOME on UNIX and ORACLE_HOME on Windows platforms	Go to the $ORACLE_HOME\network directory	In this Optimal Flexible Architecture (OFA)-compliant release, all subdirectories are no longer under a top level ORACLE_HOME directory. There can be an ORACLE_BASE directory, which may contain multiple Oracle home directories.
Symbols	period . comma , hyphen - semicolon ; colon : equal sign = backslash \ single quote ' double quote " parentheses ()	Symbols other than brackets and vertical bars must be entered in commands exactly as shown.

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