Hi,
just wanted to report that everything went smoothly as it should. What I did was the following (mind the order of steps before doing the same): 1. Update OS to latest version (CentOS 6.7 in my case) and do a reboot 2. Download Oracle Instantclient packages in version 11.2.0.4 3. Copy those packages to server 4. Now point the spacewalk repo to 2.3 5. Install the instantclient packages with yum to resolve the dependencies 6. Upgrade Spacewalk packages with yum upgrade 7. stop spacewalk-services 8. do the schema upgrade 9. now dump the oracle database from 11.2 backend to 12.1 backend 10. run spacewalk-setup --disconnected --external-oracle --upgrade (mind --external-oracle, before it was --external-database=oracle; this has to be changed in upgrading notes on spacewalk homepage) and put in new connection data 11. now do a reboot again and run spacewalk-services if it isn't started automatically 12. Profit! Maybe there is an easier way / other ways to accomplish this, the above is how I solved it, just for future reference As I wrote above, please fix the spacewalk-setup upgrade with external database, this is wrong in https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/HowToUpgrade. Happy Upgrading and kind regards, Daniel Souvignier Von: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Souvignier, Daniel Gesendet: Montag, 31. August 2015 15:35 An: [email protected] Betreff: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Connect Spacewalk (2.2) to Oracle 12.1 database Hi, thanks for your answer, I'll try that as soon as possible and report back if it worked. To connect to an upgraded database with just new connection data, I run spacewalk-setup again with skip populate database setting, right? Regards, Daniel Von: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] Im Auftrag von Avi Miller Gesendet: Mittwoch, 26. August 2015 23:10 An: <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected] Betreff: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Connect Spacewalk (2.2) to Oracle 12.1 database Hi, On 26 Aug 2015, at 10:23 pm, Souvignier, Daniel <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: is there a possibility to connect Spacewalk to an Oracle 12.1 database? Yes, from Spacewalk 2.3 and higher, or Spacewalk 2.2 provided by Oracle. I read in <http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37670_01/E64575/E64575.pdf> http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37670_01/E64575/E64575.pdf that it is supported, but in <http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/2.2/RHEL/6/x86_64/> http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/2.2/RHEL/6/x86_64/ the packages for 12.1 are missing (like oracle-lib-compat and others). Our dbas want to upgrade all our databases to 12.1, so it would be great if we could upgrade the Spacewalk DB as well. Thanks! We haven't (yet) upgraded the Instant Client requirements, but the 11.2.0.4 Instant Client is 100% certified with 12c database. You continue to use the existing oracle-instantclient-11.2.0.4 RPMs on the Spacewalk server but you can switch to a 12c database on the backend. Cheers, Avi -- Oracle <http://www.oracle.com> Avi Miller | Product Management Director | +61 (3) 8616 3496 Oracle Linux and Virtualization 417 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, Victoria 3004 Australia
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