SharePlex 11.0 - SharePlex Installation and Setup for Oracle on RDS

About this Guide Overview and Requirements Configure a SharePlex AMI instance Setup for on-premises source, RDS target Setup for EC2 source, RDS target Setup for RDS source, RDS target in the same region Setup for RDS source, RDS target in different regions Oracle Setup (ora_setup)

Install SharePlex on Linux/Unix for PostgreSQL as a Source and Open Target Databases

Read this before you begin:

These instructions assume that you understand and satisfied all preinstallation requirements that apply to your environment. See the SharePlex Pre-installation Checklist.
For preinstallation information about installing SharePlex for target databases hosted on Amazon cloud services, see Installation and setup for cloud-hosted databases
These instructions assume installation as non-root. To install as root, see Install SharePlex as Root.
The SharePlex security groups and SharePlex Administrator must exist on the system prior to installation. See Installer Checklist for Oracle for more information.
You can run the installer in either of the following ways:

Run the installer in interactive mode

Run the Installer in Unattended Mode

Run the installer in interactive mode

In interactive mode, you are prompted for each part of the installation information.

Perform the following steps to run the installer in interactive mode:

Log in to the system as the user that will be named as the SharePlex Administrator during this installation. This user will own the installation files and binaries.
(Reinstallations) If sp_cop is running, shut it down.
Copy the installation file to a temporary directory where you have write permissions.
Grant executable permissions to the file.

# chmod 555 installation_file
Run the .tpm file. If installing SharePlex in a cluster, run the installer from the primary node (the one to which the shared disk is mounted)

# ./installation_file
You are prompted for the following:

Prompt for:	Input
Installation type	Select <New Installation>.
Product directory location (path)	Enter the path to the SharePlex installation directory. If the specified directory does not exist, the installer creates it. If the directory exists, it must be empty. The installer quits if the directory contains prior SharePlex installations or other files.
Variable data directory location	Specify an empty directory. The installer creates the specified directory if it does not exist. Important! Do not install this directory into the SharePlex product directory.
SharePlex Admin group	Enter the DBA-privileged group to which the SharePlex Administrator user belongs, which will own the SharePlex binaries. If the default group of the SharePlex Administrator is oinstall, select any option, and make certain this user is listed under oinstall in the etc/group file. For more information, see Installer Checklist for Oracle.
TCP/IP port for SharePlex	Enter the port number to use for SharePlex TCP/IP communications.
License key (do you have?)	Press Enter to accept the default of Y (yes). If you do not have a license, enter no. At any point before you run SharePlex you can add the license key with the splex_add_key utility. For more information, see SharePlex License Utilities.
Please specify platform for license key (select a number):	Please select the appropriate number from the following list of platforms to install the license key: 1) Oracle 2) File 3) JMS 4) Kafka 5) SQL Server 6) Postgres 7) MySQL 8) Snowflake 9) Event Hubs 10) All Platforms
License key	Enter the license key you received from Quest.

The installer displays the location of the install log file and then quits.

See Next Steps.

Next Steps

The following setup tasks must be finished before you start up replication:

Task	Description
Patch SharePlex	If you downloaded patches for this version of SharePlex, apply them now.
Run sp_security	Run “sp_security –setup” to specify whether or not to enable SSL/TLS for all network traffic. When enabled, SSL/TLS is used for network communications between the SharePlex instances on the source and target systems.
Assign users to security groups	For more information, see Assign SharePlex Users to Security Groups.
Perform Database Setup and other setup tasks	See: Set up Replication from a Supported Source to a Supported Target Type
Repeat	Repeat all of the installation procedures for all Unix and Linux machines that will be involved in SharePlex replication.
Multi-instance configurations	To install multiple instances of SharePlex on this system, such as to support consolidated replication, see the SharePlex Administrator’s Guide for the correct setup.