Description: How to get information for configuring the Oracle plugin on a Linux Oracle server . (4047958)

Date: MAY 2010
NV Version: All
OS Version: Linux
Application: Oracle
Plugin version: All Oracle plugins

SolutionWorkaround/Procdure:
Open a shell on the Linux Server with Oracle installed and su to the oracle user:

su - oracle

The ORACLE_SID and ORACLE_HOME values are stored in /etc/oratab.
type 'cat /etc/oratab'

To set the environment variables so you can run rman and sqlplus use the oraenv program that was installed with oracle.

. /usr/local/bin/oraenv

Be sure to put the "." with a space between the path to the oraenv program to set the environment properly. This will set the ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_SID variables.

Linux has another application named rman, so you will want to set your path with the $ORACLE_HOME\bin directory before the rest of your paths.

export PATH=$ORACLE_HOME\bin:$PATH

Oracle software group default is 'oinstall'

Oracle software owner default is 'oracle'

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