Description

This is an Ansible role to configure a CentOS/RHEL/Oracle Linux 7.1 server with Oracle 12c R1 Enterprise Edition Database.

Usage

For test purposes with Vagrant, you have to install the vagrant-hostmanager plugin:

$ vagrant plugin install vagrant-hostmanager

This plugin will setup, after VM boot, the '/etc/hosts' file of the VM's system. This configuration is required for Oracle server installation. If the host FQDN is not declared, Oracle installer will throw an error.

Update the host's file /etc/hosts and add an entry for the Vagrant VM oracle-db-vm as follow:

192.168.33.102  oracle-db-vm

PS: If you update the VM ip address in the Vagrantfile, you have to do the same thing in the /etc/hosts file in order to keep the oracle-db-vm reachable.

Download the Oracle 12c installer files from Oracle website:

• linuxamd64_12102_database_1of2.zip
• linuxamd64_12102_database_2of2.zip

and put them into /tmp/oracledb_installer (default directory).

Update your inventory variables, when needed, to override the role default variables. For instance, if you want to:

• download oracle installer files 'foobar_1of2.zip' and 'foobar_2of2.zip'
• put them into '/foo/bar' directory
• install them under '/baz/quax' folder (VM side)
• set the oracle system user password to 'changeme' (use the command mkpasswd --method=SHA-512 to generate an encrypted password)
• set the database global name to 'db.foo.bar'
• run the DB listener on port '2115' (instead of the default 1521)

add the following variables to the host_vars/oracle-db inventory file:

# Oracle Installation params
oracle_archives_directory: '/foo/bar'
oracle_archives_files:
  - foobar_1of2.zip
  - foobar_2of2.zip
oracle_base_dir: '/baz/quax'
oracle_system_user_password: '$6$AbIiQcyxOZA$yXm3R2qLAx....'
oracle_install:
  db_listener_port: 2115
  db_globalname: 'db.foo.bar'

To secure the content of your inventory variables files, ansible-vault is your friend !

Now, provision the VM:

$ vagrant up

After a few minutes a virtual machine with Oracle Database will be ready for you without any further configuration. You can access the Enterprise Manager Express using sys (default sys dba username) and oracle as password:

https://the_vm_fqdn:5500/em

To access the sqlplus console as sysdba:

• first, connect to the virtual machine with vagrant ssh command
• open a shell for oracle user (default password is welcome1)
• type: sqlplus / as sysdba

You can shutdown the virtual machine:

$ vagrant halt

or completely destroy it (delete from disk):

$ vagrant destroy

Role variables

• oracle_version - Oracle database version (default: 12.1.0.2)
• oracle_edition - The Oracle database edition (default: 'EE')
• oracle_archives_directory - Path to temporary directory where to download installer archives (default: /tmp/oracledb_installer)
• oracle_archives_files - List of downloaded archives files within then oracledb_archives_directory temporary forlder.
• oracle_system_user_password - The digest of the encrypted oracle user password (default: 'welcome1' encrypted)
• oracle_base_dir - Oracle base directory (default: '/u01/app')
• oracle_installation_dir - Oracle installer directory (default: '/u01/app/installation')
• oracle_server_hostname - FQDN of oracle server machine (default: 'oracle-db-vm')
• oracle_db_name - Oracle database name (default: 'oradb')
• oracle_home_dir - Database home directory (default: '/u01/app/oracle/product/12.1.0.2/oradb')
• oracle_install.mode - The installation mode option (default: 'INSTALL_DB_SWONLY')
• oracle_install.db_type - The type of database to create (default: 'GENERAL_PURPOSE')
• oracle_install.db_globalname - The starter global Database name (default: 'starter.oradb.private')
• oracle_install.db_sid - The starter database SID (default: 'ora')
• oracle_install.db_listener_port - The database listener port (default: 1521)
• oracle_install.em_express_port - Enterprise Manager access port (default: 5500)
• oracle_install.instance_name - Oracle instance name (default: 'orainst')
• oracle_install.create_cdb - Flag to create database as container database (default: 'true')
• oracle_install.config_as_container_db - Specify whether the database should be configured as a Container database (default: 'true')
• oracle_install.pdb_name - Pluggable Database name for the pluggable database in Container Database (default: 'pdb_01')
• oracle_install.total_pdbs - The number of pdb to be created (default: '1')
• oracle_install.pdb_prefix - The prefix name to use if one or more pdb need to be created (default: 'pdb')
• oracle_install.sys_dba_username - Username with DBA role (default: 'sys')
• oracle_install.starter_db_common_password - The password that is to be used for all schemas in the starter database (default: 'oracle')
• oracle_install.management_option - The management option to use for managing the database (default: 'DEFAULT')
• oracle_install.enable_recovery - This variable is to be set to 'true' if database recovery is required (default: 'true')
• oracle_install.storage_type - The type of storage to use for the database (default: 'FILE_SYSTEM_STORAGE')
• oracle_install.inventory_location - The location which holds the inventory files (default: '/u01/app/inventory')
• oracle_install.data_location - The database file location which is a directory for datafiles, control files, redo logs (default: /u01/app/oradata')
• oracle_install.recovery_location - The recovery location (default: '/u01/app/recovery_area')
• oracle_install.decline_security_updates - Specify whether user doesn't want to configure security updates (default: 'no')
• oracle_install.install_samples - This variable controls whether to load Example Schemas onto the starter database (default: 'false')
• oracle_install.memory_option - Put this parameter to 'false' if automatic memory management is not desired (default: 'false')
• oracle_install.memory_mb - The total memory allocation for the database, value in MB (default: 1536)
• oracle_install.db_charset - Specify the Starter Database character set (default: 'AL32UTF8')