[indiana-discuss] "no scripting zone" and isaexec(3C) == architectural

[Bernd Schemmer]

Hi,

>>You'd write an SMF service (start method included) that does all the
>>configuration, then you'd pacakage it (with corresponding dependencies
>>on the pkgs that deliver the Oracl DB product), and you'd add this pkg
>>to the incorporation that your machines install.


Arrg -  and that should be more secure than using a postinstall script???


Sorry, but using an SMF Service for configuring an application makes 
developing of packages more complicated and will lead to lot of new 
errors ....

regards

Bernd


Nicolas Williams wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 05:15:28AM -0700, UNIX admin wrote:
>   
>>> The only reasoning you've provided so far, are "there
>>> are scripts so it 
>>> won't work."  Again, I see nothing in those scripts
>>> *that is actually 
>>> needed for the driver to work on 2009.06* that IPS
>>> does not provide.
>>>       
>> OK, fair enough.
>>
>> Please explain how you would configure and create an Oracle database
>> with an IPS package, completely automatically, without any DBA
>> intervention whatsoever.
>>     
>
> You'd write an SMF service (start method included) that does all the
> configuration, then you'd pacakage it (with corresponding dependencies
> on the pkgs that deliver the Oracl DB product), and you'd add this pkg
> to the incorporation that your machines install.
>
> I think what's missing there is a tool to make the above simpler:
> something that takes your start method, SMF FMRI, pkg FMRIs and
> incorporation FMRI and does the rest for you.  Even better, if this work
> can be done once and made to support the use of profiles (as you suggest
> below) to do the configuration.  Then the tool would be simpler still,
> as simple as you want it to be.
>
>   
>> How would you do it via IPS, in his current incarnation?  Remember, all the sysadmin should have to do is:
>>
>> 1. select the package (either through a web browser, or an automated profile)
>>
>> 2.  select a component (which would include the DB creation and RMAN configuration subcomponents)
>>
>> 3. deploy.
>>     
>
>
> Nico
>   


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