Oracle Restart Silent Installation
Being a remote DBA (iDBA 2.0?) working for Pythian, I never see the servers that run the databases I connect to.
But do I have to? Term “remote” is very widespread today. We use remote controls for lots of devices, manage our bank accounts remotely, communicate to our parents and over phones, and so on. So why should we meet servers personally? Everything can be done remotely and that’s why silent installation of Oracle software is very important for database administrators.
Oracle continues to develop and improve that process, and nowadays for smooth and quick installation is just a matter of the proper definition of parameters.
I had had some experience with silent (and not always successful) installation of Oracle versions 8 and 9, but thanks to an excellent post, Oracle Silent Mode, Part 1: Installation Of 10.2 And 11.1 Databases by Grégory Guillou, I got a new splash of joy using silent installations. RDBMS, Oracle Grid Control, agents, scheduler agents, collaboration software, etc., can be installed using the silent installation in latest versions. This post is about silent installation of one of the new Oracle 11g Rel.2 options called Oracle Restart.
