Remote automated installation of Oracle clients
- From: "Stephen Booth" <stephenbooth.uk@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Oracle-L Freelists" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:01:49 +0000
We have a situation where we need to rationalise the range of
installed Oracle clients (i.e. the bit that sits between the app and
the network stack) we have installed. We currently have versions from
7.x through to 10.2 installed accross approximately 12,000 desktops
(accross various locations in an area of around 26 square miles)
running various apps on Windows versions from NT4 to XP (mostly
Windows 2000). We are also introducing a standard TNSNAMES.ORA file
(this is the impetus to standardise on a single client version as
different locations on disk and formats of the TNSNAMES.ORA file would
make it pretty much impossible to manage the rollout of the file
otherwise).
With the number of desktops to be updated and the area they are spread
over it would not be possible to do this by visiting every desktop so
management are proposing automated installation of the Oracle client
through scripts run at logon requiring no user interaction. Has
anyone ever tried something like this? Are there any lessons learned
you would be willing to share?
I haven't been able to find any references to this sort of work other
than how to do a silent install using a responses file. I have looked
at the 10g Instant Client which looks like it might be more suited to
our needs as we just need to copy the files onto the desktop and set
the path variable. Does anyone have any experience of using this
client that they'd be willing to share. I have used it in test and it
seemed fine, I'd be grateful for any comments or advice.
I suggested that we look at moving applications to Citrix or other
thin client solutions so negating the need to have the Oracle client
on the desktop but was told that this would be too expensive to
consider right now.
Thanks
Stephen
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