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10: Installation,
Configuration and Administration.
Applies to:
BR*Tools Studio 7.10 for Oracle databases. For more information, visit the Operations homepage.
Summary
This document describes all the necessary steps to install, configure and manage BR*Tools Studio 7.10.
It is focused only in the Multi-instance mode. This mode lets BR*Tools Studio to be the central point of
administration for every Oracle database in your IT landscape.
Author Bio
Chabier Sanvicente has more than 6 years of experience as SAP Basis and Netweaver
Technical Consultant in different products such as ERP, Portal or Solution Manager in several
SAP Consulting companies and SAP Customers. Currently working for Realtech System
Consulting S.L.
Table of Contents
Requirements .....................................................................................................................................................3
Installation...........................................................................................................................................................3
Software download..........................................................................................................................................3
Create a valid certificate..................................................................................................................................3
BR*Tools Studio Installation ...........................................................................................................................4
OC4J Installation...........................................................................................................................................13
Starting BR*Tools Studio ..................................................................................................................................14
Configuring and managing BR*Tools Studio ....................................................................................................18
Adding and configuring an instance..............................................................................................................18
Managing the configured instance ................................................................................................................23
Related Content................................................................................................................................................26
Disclaimer and Liability Notice..........................................................................................................................27
Requirements
The requirements for the intallarion and administration of SAP BR*Tools Studio 7.10 can be splitted in 2
parts:
• Requirements in the host where BR*Tools Studio 7.10 is installed:
o JDK 1.4.2 or higher. Recommended JDK 1.5 or higher.
o Set environment variable JAVA_HOME.
o Include in the envorinment variable “PATH” at the beginning the path to the jdk we need to
avoid problems and conflicts with other versions of JAVA installed on the host.
o SAPCAR program to extract the software.
o Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox.
o Any remote connection tool like RSH, SSH or putty.
o Oracle Containers for J2EE (OC4J) release 9.0.4 (Up to now it doesn’t work with OC4J
release 10 or higher).
• Requirements in the hosts of the instances to be administrated:
o BR*Tools 7.00 path 34 or higher.
o BR*Tools 7.10 patch 12 or higher.
Installation
Software download
The necessary software to install BR*Tools Studio can be downloaded in the following link:
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/ora
The necessary software to install Oracle Containers for J2EE (OC4J) can be found in the following link:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/ias/htdocs/utilsoft.html
Trigger “setup.cmd” or “sertup.csh” depending on the OS (This document is based on Windows platform).
The installation wizard starts. Select Install:
Select I Agree:
Select the port you want the BR*Tools Studio server will listen (8888 by default):
Write the name (with the full path) of the certificate you created in the previous chapter:
Once the process has finished, you can close the installation window:
OC4J Installation
For the Oracle Container for J2EE installation, it is necessary to place the zip file we have downloaded from
the Oracle web site in the BR*Tools Studio installation folder under the path \web-app-server\oc4j.
We decompress the file and the software is already installed:
From the initial page we have to go to the Server area to fully start BR*Tools Studio. Additionally, we can
directly select the quick link Startup:
To check that the server has started properly, check the engine status in the left panel:
Once the server is fully started you can start to setup the the instances you want to add to BR*Tools Studio,
and configure the different actions on their databases.
Fill in the name of the instance and the remote commando to access it. You can use several remote access
command tools like ssh, rsh, putty,…
In this document it is explained how to do it with the command plink (part of the putty toolkit) using the
easiest way to connect by using the user and password directly in the command line. You can use safer
methods like certificates to avoid this security problem.
The user to connect to the server where the database instance to manage is located has to be the owner of
the instance (ora<sid>).
An example of the command line could be:
plink -ssh orasmc@rhsolman -pw mi_password
Where –ssh jeans that you connect using ssh protocol, with the user orasmc to the rhsolman server with the
password mi_password.
To confirm your entries choose Next.
Now the wizard prompts you fill in the following data to manage the database instance you are going to add:
• Password of the administrator user of the database instance inside BR*Tools Studio (the user is
always “administrator” by default, so just insert the password you would like this user to have).
• User and password of a database user with admin privileges for it. For example the schema owner of
the database instance: SAPSR3.
• BR*Tools default profile of the database instance you are going to add (Note that it is not the Oracle
profile, but the br*tools profile).
When you are done, choose Confirm.
Confirm the basic data before creating the instance connection and choose Create:
The database instance will be added. We are now able to select it (see instance SMC added) in the left
panel to perform administration tasks on it.
Note that the Connectivity semaphore under Server status area (left panel too) has changed its status to
green as soon as it has connected to the added instance.
Repeat these steps for every database instance you want to add to BR*Tools Studio.
• BR*Tools Wizard. - In this tab you can perform all the database administration tasks. Some of them
are not yet available and will be released in future updates:
o Instance: You can startup or shutdown the whole database
o Database: Relevant information about the database like owners or tablespaces.
o Maintenance: Perform typical maintenance tasks like check the database or update the
statistics.
o Availability: Backup and restore the database
o Advance: Directly trigger BR*Tool commands not covered by the previous sections.
Related Content
BR*Tools Studio for Oracle DBA
BR*Tools Studio: Frequent Asked Questions
Tips and tricks on installing the SAP BR*tools studio for Oracle
For more information, visit the Operations homepage.