Provisioning Oracle Grid Infrastructure Software

Fleet Patching and Provisioning has several methods to provision and, optionally, configure Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle Restart grid infrastructure homes.

Fleet Patching and Provisioning can provision and configure Oracle Grid Infrastructure on one or more nodes that do not currently have a Grid home, and then configure Oracle Grid Infrastructure to form a single-node or multi-node Oracle Grid Infrastructure installation.

Use the rhpctl add workingcopy command to install and configure Oracle Grid Infrastructure, and to enable simple and repeatable creation of standardized deployments.

The Fleet Patching and Provisioning Server can also provision an Oracle Grid Infrastructure home to a node or cluster that is currently running Oracle Grid Infrastructure. The currently running Grid home can be a home that Fleet Patching and Provisioning did not provision (an unmanaged home) or a home that Fleet Patching and Provisioning did provision (a managed home).

You can also provision an Oracle Restart grid infrastructure to a node in the cluster.

In either case, use the -softwareonly parameter of the rhpctl add workingcopy command. This provisions but does not activate the new Grid home, so that when you are ready to switch to that new home, you can do so with a single command.

To inform Fleet Patching and Provisioning the nodes on which to install Oracle Grid Infrastructure, and to configure Oracle Grid Infrastructure, you provide directions in a response file, as in the following example:
```
$ rhpctl add workingcopy -workingcopy GI_HOME_11204_WCPY -image GI_HOME_11204 –responsefile /u01/app/rhpinfo/GI_11204_install.txt
  {authentication_option}
```
The preceding command provisions the GI_HOME_11204_WCPY working copy based on the GI_HOME_11204 gold image to a target specified in the GI_11204_install.txt response file. In addition to identifying the target nodes, the response file specifies information about the Oracle Grid Infrastructure configuration, such as Oracle ASM and GNS parameters.

Note:
The oracle.install.crs.rootconfig.executeRootScript=xxx response file parameter is overridden and always set to false for Fleet Patching and Provisioning, regardless of what you specify in the response file.
To provision an Oracle Grid Infrastructure home to a node or cluster that is currently running Oracle Grid Infrastructure:
```
$ rhpctl add workingcopy -workingcopy GI_HOME_12201_PATCHED_WCPY -image GI_HOME_12201_PSU1 –client CLUST_002 -softwareonly
```
The preceding command provisions a new working copy based on the GI_HOME_12201_PSU1 gold image to the Fleet Patching and Provisioning Client (that is running Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c release 2 (12.2)) named CLUST_002. When you provision to a target that is not running Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c release 2 (12.2) (such as, a target running Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c release 1 (12.1) or Oracle Grid Infrastructure 11g release 2 (11.2)), use the -targetnode parameter instead of -client.

Specify a target node on which you want to provision an Oracle Restart grid infrastructure, as follows:

$ rhpctl add workingcopy -workingcopy SIHA_GI -image goldimage -targetnode remote_node_name -responsefile Oracle_Restart_response_file {authentication_option}

Related Topics

Authentication Options for Oracle Fleet Patching and Provisioning Operations

Parent topic: Provisioning Oracle Grid Infrastructure Homes