Install Oracle Traffic Director 12.2.1 in silent mode

Hello Friends!! In this post, let's discuss on Installation procedure for OTD. Oracle Traffic Director (OTD) is developed on Fusion Middleware supported platforms and on Oracle's engineered systems such as Exalogic and SPARC SuperCluster.

Oracle Traffic Director 12.2.1 is a software load balancer for load balancing HTTP/S and TCP traffic to back-end servers. These back-end servers, which are referred to as origin servers within Oracle Traffic Director, can be application servers, web servers, LDAP servers and so on

Oracle Traffic Director OTD installation

Prerequisites for Collocated Domain:

• JDK 1.8.x for OTD 12.2.x 
• Oracle Fusion Middleware Infrastructure [inside WebLogic] 12.2.1
• OTD 12.2.1 for Linux 64 binaries
• OS must have C and C++ libraries [check in the Install OHS Article]

Create silent mode installation will take the default paths which takes the arguments given in the same line instead of response file, INSTALL_TYPE="Collocated OTD (Managed through WebLogic server)" is the option will tells the Oracle Universal Installer that install OTD  with the following:

Download and unzip file V78163-01.zip to install traffic director

./fmw_12.2.1.0.0_otd_linux64.bin -silent ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_HOME DECLINE_SECURITY_UPDATES=true INSTALL_TYPE="Collocated OTD (Managed through WebLogic server)" -invPtrLoc /home/oracle/silent/oraInst.loc
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Launcher log file is /tmp/OraInstall2016-02-25_11-25-48AM/launcher2016-02-25_11-25-48AM.log.
Starting Oracle Universal Installer

Checking if CPU speed is above 300 MHz.   Actual 2924.000 MHz    Passed
Checking swap space: must be greater than 512 MB.   Actual 17304 MB    Passed
Checking if this platform requires a 64-bit JVM.   Actual 64    Passed (64-bit not required)
Checking temp space: must be greater than 300 MB.   Actual 706019 MB    Passed


Preparing to launch the Oracle Universal Installer from /tmp/OraInstall2016-02-25_11-25-48AM
Log: /tmp/OraInstall2016-02-25_11-25-48AM/install2016-02-25_11-25-48AM.log
Setting ORACLE_HOME to /home/oracle/products/12.2.1/Oracle_Home
Setting DECLINE_SECURITY_UPDATES to true
Setting INSTALL_TYPE to Collocated OTD (Managed through WebLogic server)
Copyright (c) 1999, 2015, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
Skipping Software Updates
Starting check : CertifiedVersions
Expected result: One of redhat-7,redhat-6,oracle-6,oracle-7,SuSE-11
Actual Result: oracle-7
Check complete. The overall result of this check is: Passed
CertifiedVersions Check: Success.


Starting check : Packages
Checking for binutils-2.23.52.0.1; found binutils-2.23.52.0.1-55.el7-x86_64.    Passed
Checking for compat-libcap1-1.10; found compat-libcap1-1.10-7.el7-x86_64.       Passed
Checking for compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-x86_64; found compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-72.el7-x86_64.   Passed
Checking for libgcc-4.8.2-x86_64; found libgcc-4.8.5-4.el7-x86_64.      Passed
Checking for libstdc++-4.8.2-x86_64; found libstdc++-4.8.5-4.el7-x86_64.        Passed
Checking for libstdc++-devel-4.8.2-x86_64; found libstdc++-devel-4.8.5-4.el7-x86_64.    Passed
Checking for sysstat-10.1.5; found sysstat-10.1.5-7.el7-x86_64. Passed
Checking for gcc-4.8.2; found gcc-4.8.5-4.el7-x86_64.   Passed
Checking for gcc-c++-4.8.2; found gcc-c++-4.8.5-4.el7-x86_64.   Passed
Checking for ksh-...; found ksh-20120801-22.el7_1.3-x86_64.     Passed
Checking for make-3.82; found make-1:3.82-21.el7-x86_64.        Passed
Checking for glibc-2.17-x86_64; found glibc-2.17-106.0.1.el7_2.1-x86_64.        Passed
Checking for glibc-devel-2.17-x86_64; found glibc-devel-2.17-106.0.1.el7_2.1-x86_64.    Passed
Checking for libaio-0.3.109-x86_64; found libaio-0.3.109-13.el7-x86_64. Passed
Checking for libaio-devel-0.3.109-x86_64; found libaio-devel-0.3.109-13.el7-x86_64.     Passed
Check complete. The overall result of this check is: Passed
Packages Check: Success.


Starting check : Kernel
Checking for VERSION=3.8.0; found VERSION=3.10.0-229.el7.x86_64.        Passed
Checking for hardnofiles=4096; found hardnofiles=4096.  Passed
Checking for softnofiles=4096; found softnofiles=4096.  Passed
Check complete. The overall result of this check is: Passed
Kernel Check: Success.


Starting check : TotalMemory
Expected result: 1024MB
Actual Result: 31972MB
Check complete. The overall result of this check is: Passed
TotalMemory Check: Success.


Starting check : CheckJDKVersion
Expected result: 1.8.0_51
Actual Result: 1.8.0_51
Check complete. The overall result of this check is: Passed
CheckJDKVersion Check: Success.


Validations are enabled for this session.
Verifying data
Copying Files
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The installation of Oracle Traffic Director 12.2.1.0.0 completed successfully.
Logs successfully copied to /home/oracle/oraInventory/logs.

We have updated the following topics with the integration process with OHS and Oracle WebLogic.

1. OTD connecting OHS instances
2. OTD Instance creation with WLST
3. OTD Standalone Domain
4. OHS Instance creation using WLST
5. OHS Standalone domain
6. OHS Collocated domain