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Oracle® Application Server Installation Guide
10g Release 2 (10.1.2) for hp-ux Itanium
B25193-01
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1 Summary of Installation Steps

Oracle Application Server is an integrated and powerful product and this guide helps you to use the capabilities of the product optimally.

This chapter provides an overview of the steps to install Oracle Application Server. The other chapters in this guide describe the steps in detail.

The steps for installing Oracle Application Server are:

  1. Refer to Oracle Application Server Release Notes for the most current information about Oracle Application Server:

    You can find the latest version of the release notes on Oracle Technology Network at

    http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation

  2. Check that the computers where you want to run Oracle Application Server meet the requirements. These requirements are covered in the following sections:

  3. Refer to Chapter 4, "Things You Should Know Before Starting the Installation" to get a big picture of how the different parts of Oracle Application Server work together. This chapter describes the OracleAS Infrastructure, Oracle Application Server middle tiers, where you can install them, and what values Oracle Universal Installer expects on some of the installation screens.

  4. Refer to Chapter 5, "Installing OracleAS Infrastructure" and Chapter 6, "Installing Middle Tiers" to get details on the main parts of Oracle Application Server.

  5. If you want to run Oracle Application Server in high availability environments such as OracleAS Cold Failover Cluster or OracleAS Disaster Recovery, read Chapter 9, "Installing in High Availability Environments: Overview".

  6. Learn about recommended topologies. You can install Oracle Application Server on multiple computers to improve scalability, availability, security, and performance. Chapter 14, "Recommended Topologies" describes the recommended development and deployment topologies.

  7. Install Oracle Application Server (infrastructure and/or middle tiers). Follow the appropriate procedures in Chapter 5, "Installing OracleAS Infrastructure" and Chapter 6, "Installing Middle Tiers".

  8. After you install Oracle Application Server, access the Welcome page and run some demos to ensure that the installation was successful.