Upgrading Oracle Internet Directory 10 g to 11g

2-6 Oracle Fusion Middleware Installation Guide for Oracle Portal, Forms, Reports and Discoverer will avoid allocating these ports to the Oracle instance and domain you are currently creating with your installation. However, if your existing instances and domains are shut down, the configuration tool will assume that the initial default port numbers are available and will assign these port numbers to the instance and domain you are creating. In such cases, conflicts with the following ports can arise: ■ The OPMN local and remote port values. ■ The WebLogic Domain Administration Server port value. These port conflicts mean that OPMN and WebLogic Administration Server can only start for one of the configurations under the Middleware home. To proactively prevent this problem, you should leave your existing Oracle instances and WebLogic Domain up and running as you install your software and create your new Oracle instance and domain. The configuration tool will recognize which ports are already in use and will avoid allocating these ports to your new Oracle instance and WebLogic Domain. Alternatively, you can select Specify Ports using Configuration File on the Configure Ports Screen and manually keep track of your port numbers in a staticports.ini file.

2.2 Installation Types

The Oracle Portal, Forms, Reports and Discoverer installer provides two installation options: ■ Install and Configure This option installs the product binaries in an Oracle home directory and creates and configures a working instance in an Oracle instance directory. The common product binaries are also copied to the oracle_common directory. After this is complete, you should be able to begin configuring and managing your products using the Administration Console or Enterprise Manager. ■ Install Software - Do Not Configure This option only installs the software binaries in an Oracle home directory and the common product binaries in the oracle_common directory. You must then manually run the Configuration Tool from your ORACLE_HOME bin on UNIX operating systems or ORACLE_HOME \bin on Windows operating systems directory to configure your products before you can use them. This option can be used to quickly create multiple instances of the software that share a common disk. To install the latest Oracle Portal, Forms, Reports and Discoverer software, you must choose the Install Software - Do Not Configure installation type, as described in Section 1.2, Installation Roadmap. Note: If you choose this installation type on a Windows operating system, there are manual configuration steps required for Oracle Discoverer. For more information, see Section 2.3.5, Manual Configuration for Oracle Discoverer Windows Only.