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The second part of installing Oracle GoldenGate (Microservices) for Big Data is to install the Deployment Home. To install the Deployment Home, in releases 12.3 through 19.1, you had to run the Oracle GoldenGate Configuration Assistant (OGGCA) at least once. This allowed you to walk through the deployment process and configure the environment to your needs, then save your responses to a response file. Starting in 21.4.0.0.0 (the first time I’ve seen it), Oracle has finally provided a response file for OGGCA (only after six years of asking). This response file comes packaged with the binaries now! Downloading Binaries If you have not already downloaded the binaries needed, you can do that here. Then refer to Step 1 of 2 blog posts related to this topic for installing them. Create Directories Before installing Oracle GoldenGate for Big Data, establishing the directory structure for the binaries needed to be done. After the core directories are established and the binaries installed, there is still a need for additional directories. These directories are used for the Deployment Home that will be defined. The following commands can be used to create the Oracle GoldenGate Deployment Home: $ mkdir -p /opt/app/oracle/gg_deployments Installing Oracle GoldenGate – Deployment Home To install the Oracle GoldenGate (Microservices) Deployment Home, the Oracle GoldenGate Configuration Assistant (OGGCA) has to be run. The OGGCA is an assistant that allows for the structure of the Deployment Home to be standardized or customized. Initially, a user would have to run OGGCA to provide all the details and generate the response file. At that point, the OGGCA could be closed and run silently with the response file. In the current release of Oracle GoldenGate (Microservices), Oracle has provided a response file template for the Oracle GoldenGate Configuration Assistant (OGGCA). The below example is what a basic, insecure response file looks like for a Deployment Home. Example: Response file oracle.install.responseFileVersion=/oracle/install/rspfmt_oggca_response_schema_v21_1_0 Oracle GoldenGate deployment configuration options and details SECTION A – GENERAL CONFIGURATION_OPTION=ADD DEPLOYMENT_NAME=BD_TEST SECTION B – ADMINISTRATOR ACCOUNT ADMINISTRATOR_USER=oggadmin ADMINISTRATOR_PASSWORD=WElcome12345## SECTION C – SERVICE MANAGER SERVICEMANAGER_DEPLOYMENT_HOME=/opt/app/oracle/gg_deploymenets/ServiceManager HOST_SERVICEMANAGER=localhost PORT_SERVICEMANAGER=16000 SECURITY_ENABLED=false STRONG_PWD_POLICY_ENABLED=true CREATE_NEW_SERVICEMANAGER=true REGISTER_SERVICEMANAGER_AS_A_SERVICE=true INTEGRATE_SERVICEMANAGER_WITH_XAG=false EXISTING_SERVICEMANAGER_IS_XAG_ENABLED=false SECTION D – SOFTWARE HOME OGG_SOFTWARE_HOME=/opt/app/oracle/product/21.4.0/ogghome_1 SECTION E – DEPLOYMENT DIRECTORIES OGG_DEPLOYMENT_HOME=/opt/app/oracle/gg_deployments/BD_TEST OGG_ETC_HOME= OGG_CONF_HOME= OGG_SSL_HOME= OGG_VAR_HOME= OGG_DATA_HOME= SECTION I – SERVICES ADMINISTRATION_SERVER_ENABLED=true PORT_ADMINSRVR=16001 DISTRIBUTION_SERVER_ENABLED=false PORT_DISTSRVR=16002 NON_SECURE_DISTSRVR_CONNECTS_TO_SECURE_RCVRSRVR=false RECEIVER_SERVER_ENABLED=true PORT_RCVRSRVR=16003 METRICS_SERVER_ENABLED=true METRICS_SERVER_IS_CRITICAL=false PORT_PMSRVR=16004 UDP_PORT_PMSRVR=16005 PMSRVR_DATASTORE_TYPE=LMDB PMSRVR_DATASTORE_HOME=/opt/app/oracle/gg_deployments/lmdb There is a lot to unpack with the Oracle GoldenGate Configuration Assistant (OGGCA) response file. With this being a first-time run of the OGGCA, the whole file is important. If this was just adding deployment various sections have the be edited. The object of this response file is to build a new deployment home with a new ServiceManager and first deployment. Once a response file has been defined, the next thing is to install Oracle GoldenGate Deployment Home with the response file: $ cd $OGG_HOME/bin $ ./oggca -silent -responseFile /tmp/ogg21cbd/ggs_Linux_x64_BigData_services_shiphome/Disk1/response/oggca.rsp The above response file will set up the ServiceManager on a Unix/Linux platform as a daemon. The end of the configuration will ask to run a root script that allows the ServiceManager to restart when the server is rebooted. With this type of configuration, you’ll only have one ServiceManager per host. After the ServiceManager and Deployment have been deployed; the deployment can be accessed through the ServiceManager. The image below shows how the ServiceManager page would look like.

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Silent install for Oracle GoldenGate 21c (Big Data – Microservices edition) – Step 2 of 2

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