Pre-Install Crystal Reports Server; Tm Xi R2 - Novell SENTINEL 6.1 SP2 - INSTALLATION GUIDE 02-2010 Installation Manual

8.2.1 Pre-Install Crystal Reports Server

To Pre-Install Crystal Reports Server:
1 If the Sentinel Database is not on the same machine as the Crystal Reports Server, then you
must install the Oracle Client software on the Crystal Reports Server machine. This additional
step is not needed if the Sentinel Database is on the same machine as the Crystal Reports Server
because in this case the required Oracle software is already installed during the Oracle database
installation.
2 Login to the Crystal Reports Server machine as the root user
3 Create bobje group
groupadd bobje
4 Create Crystal user (the home directory in this example is /export/home/crystal, change if
needed; the /export/home part of the path must already exist).
useradd –g bobje –s /bin/bash –d /export/home/crystal –m crystal
5 Create directory for Crystal Software:
mkdir –p /opt/crystal_xir2
6 Change the ownership of the Crystal Software directory (recursively) to crystal/bobje:
chown -R crystal:bobje /opt/crystal_xir2
7 You must grant permissions to the crystal user on the $ORACLE_HOME directory using an
Access Control List (ACL). Assuming the crystal user is "crystal" and $ORACLE_HOME is
opt/oracle/product/10.2/db_1
setfacl -m u:crystal:rx -R
To verify that the ACL was set correctly, run the following command and check for "crystal" in
the output:
getfacl /opt/oracle/product/10.2/db_1
8 Add the crystal user to the oracle group using the following command:
groupmod -A crystal oinstall
This enables the crystal user to communicate with the Oracle database and execute Oracle
utilities like sqlplus and tnsping.
9 Change to the crystal user:
su - crystal
10 The ORACLE_HOME environment variable must be set in the crystal user's environment. To
do this, modify the crystal user's login script to set the ORACLE_HOME environment variable
to the base of the Oracle software. For example, if the crystal user's shell is bash and the Oracle
software is installed in the directory
~crystal/.bash_profile
file:
export ORACLE_HOME=/opt/oracle/product/10.2/db_1
11 The LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable in the crystal user's environment must
contain the path to the Oracle software libraries. To do this, modify the crystal user's login
script to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to include the Oracle software
libraries. For example, if the crystal user's shell is bash, then open the file
and add the following line to the end of the file (below where the
.bash_profile
ORACLE_HOME environment variable is set):
, the command to perform this is:
/opt/oracle/product/10.2/db_1
/opt/oracle/product/10.2/db_1,
( on SLES) and add the following line to the end of the
.profile
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then open the file
~crystal/
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