SAP Database installation on Oracle ASM database

[#1]

Hi Experts,

I have successfully installed the oracle software 11g of oracle ASM database and its been installed as per my previous oracle softwares with oracle:oinstall user and group.

Now I am installing the DB instance before that I am performing ASM preparation. As a part of that I have choseen the general options ->

oracle-> DB tools->

RAC/ASM/EXadata database isntance preparation ABAP - Kernel 7.4X ->

Database identification section given the new DB sid and selected the single instance on Oracle ASM ->

DB administration (OS User) password given ->

home directory somehow choosen as /home/orasid - but changed manually it to /home/oracle/ but we do not have any user called orasid in server. we have only oracle and sidadm of system.

we have started installing with root user but really wondering how it got it picked up orasid. 

Apart from this in SWPM Sp08 there is one option to choose to install with orasid/oracle - so we can choose with oracle but in SWPM SP17 there is no option such like this.

We cant use SWPM SP08 as we need Kernel 7.4X which was not appearing in SWPM SP8.

Kindly suggest me here ?

Your kind help much appreciated.

Thanks

Pavan

[Former Member]

Hi , we have observed the same behavior with SWPM PL17,

looks like it is buggy one. Better to open OSS directly to SAP, maybe they have some fix for it already.
BR, Sergo.

[Former Member]

Hi Pavan,

Below is the extract from sap note 1524205 - Oracle 11.2.0: Database Software Installation https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/1524205/E

Oracle Software Owner

In SAP environments there are 2 possible Oracle software owners - 'oracle' or 'ora<dbsid>'. Which of them is used to install the Oracle database software depends on what kind of system is installed.

• 'ora<dbsid>' for Single Instance on File System
  When you install your Oracle database 11.2 software on a Unix/Linux platform for single instance (SI) without Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM), the database software owner is 'ora<dbsid>:dba'.
• 'oracle' for RAC and ASM Installations
  When you install your Oracle database 11.2 software in a grid environment with Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) or Oracle Automatic Storage Management (ASM) or on Oracle Engineered Systems, the software owner is 'oracle:oinstall'.

Also read sapnote 1550133

https://launchpad.support.sap.com/#/notes/0001550133

Regards

Prithviraj