[Spacewalk-list] alternate db install...

[Michael Mraka]

Corey Kovacs wrote:
% I've seen lots of information on migrating to a database other than
% oracle-xe and such and they work just fine. I've tested them myself
% and I was happy with the results however, what I'd really like to be
% able to do is do an install directly to an existing oracle db.
% 
% When I try to run spacewalk-setup --disconnected and supply the
% information about a RAC instance I get the errors about nls_lang
% settings.

Could you paste exact error here?
 
% So this question is really for the oracle folks out there on this list
% and that is: Can I set the lang setting on a specific tablespace or
% otherwise get the setup to apply the right setting in order to make
% the install succeed in the same way that doing an import does?

If we are speaking about database charset (which should be UTF8 or AL32UTF8)
then no - it's a global setting for the whole database. On client side
nls_lang can be set on per session basis.


And specificaly to RAC - spacewalk installer is able to create only simple 
hoetname-port-sid tnsnames.ora entry. So you have to (post-install) manually
reedit tnsnames.ora and put correct RAC connect string there.


Regards,

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Michael Mráka
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat