PeopleSoft Installation using DPK's - Part 2

Connect to the machine.

Download the required files.

Login to oracle support.

https://support.oracle.com

Open doc PeopleSoft Update Manager (PUM) Home Page (Doc ID 1641843.2)

Click on “Download.sh” and download the shell script.

Open the shell script and modify the highlighted parameters.

Now, go back to the cloud machine and create the following folders

/home/psft
/home/logs
/home/DPK_INSTALL

/home/scripts

Navigate to scripts folder and create a file wget.sh

sudo vi wget.sh

Press i and paste the contents of the wget.sh which we have downloaded and modified earlier.

Press ‘Esc’ button and type :wq and hit return

Now change the mode of the file wget.sh so that it can be executed.

We can see that executable mode is not present. So type the following command.

sudo chmod 777 wget.sh

Now, execute the shell script

You can open another session to monitor the downloads.

Download will take some time.

Once download is over, navigate to DPK_INSTALL folder and unzip the first zip file.

sudo unzip FSCM-920-UPD-024-LNX_1of10.zip

 
Now navigate to DPK_INSTALL/setup

Change the mode of psf-dpk-setup.sh to executable.

sudo chmod 777 psft-dpk-setup.sh

Now execute the script
sudo ./psft-dpk-setup.sh

Enter Y

Enter the base directory - /home/psft

It will now prompt for a list of questions. Enter them as per your requirement.

Enter N

Enter y

The script will continue for some time and will fail.

This is a delivered bug, To resolve this we need to mount the /tmp with exec options.

View file, /etc/fstab

cat /etc/fstab

Add the following line to the file.

tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,exec

After modifying the file should look like this.

Type the following commands.

sudo mount -o remount,rw,exec,nosuid /tmp

sudo mount -a

To verify the changes, type mount

 
Now, continue with the installation

cd /etc/puppet/manifests

sudo puppet apply site.pp --debug --trace

The process will fail during installation of tuxedo with error - Checking Swap Sapce: 0 MB available, 500 MB required. Failed

This error will occur with vm instances running on cloud, because by default swap space is not allocated. This should not be the issue with on-premise OS.

To resolve this issue
Check the swap space.

We can see that there is no free swap space.

We will now allocate swap space.

sudo fallocate -l 2G /swapfile
sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
sudo mkswap /swapfile -f
sudo swapon /swapfile
sudo swapon -s

Check the free space again.

2GB swap space has been allocated.

Resume the installation.

Once finished, login with user psadm2 and view the services that are running. For the first time, it will prompt to change your password.

cd $PS_HOME/appserv

psadmin

psadmin -c sstatus -d APPDOM (application server status)

psadmin -p sstatus -d PRCSDOM (Process Scheduler Status)

psadmin -w sstatus -d peoplesoft

We can see that all the services have been started.

In the next and final part we will see how to open the PIA and database ports so that both of them can be accessed over the internet.