Oracle Apps DBA stuff: Oracle 11gR2 Relink New Feature [ID 883299.1]

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Oracle 11gR2 Relink New Feature [ID 883299.1]

Oracle 11gR2 Relink New Feature [ID 883299.1]

		Modified 21-MAR-2011 Type HOWTO Status PUBLISHED

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Goal
Solution

Applies to:

Oracle Server - Enterprise Edition - Version: 11.2.0.0 to 11.2.0.0 - Release: 11.2 to 11.2
Generic UNIX

Goal

What is new in Oracle 11gR2 Relink?

Solution

I ) Oracle 11gR2 has two methods of relinking all product binaries in a home

1) Traditional relink with 'all' option only

The first method is the normal running the $ORACLE_HOME/bin/relink script, which now only accepts the‘all’ parameter (no other parameters are accepted)

% $ORACLE_HOME/bin/relink all
% $ORACE_HOME/bin/relink ( By default it takes the 'all' parameter )

Note : ‘Relink all’ is provided for backward compatibility.

2) relink using runInstaller

This runs the command:

  -relink : For performing relink actions on the oracle home
         Usage: -relink -maketargetsxml  [-makedepsxml ] [name=value]

Example :
$ORACLE_HOME/oui/bin/runInstaller -relink -waitForCompletion -maketargetsxml  $ORACLE_HOME/inventory/make/makeorder.xml  -logLocation $ORACLE_HOME/install ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_HOME > $ORACLE_HOME/install/relink.log 2>&1

II) Relink log location

Case 1
If relink is performed using OUI then "$ORACLE_HOME/install/relink.log" is not created by default.

To send the relink output to $ORACLE_HOME/install/relink.log we need to redirect the output explicitly.

$ORACLE_HOME/oui/bin/runInstaller -relink -waitForCompletion -maketargetsxml $ORACLE_HOME/inventory/make/makeorder.xml -logDir $ORACLE_HOME/install ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_HOME > $ORACLE_HOME/install/relink.log 2>&1

Case 2
In case of " relink all " command, it always creates a new log file with a name "relink.log" and it will not append log information to the existing relink log file . The previous log will be saved with a timestamp ( Ex: relinkActions2009-09-14_09-01-10-PM.log )

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