Setting up a local YUM repository for OVM

This can be executed on any linux server ( even a vm in the current OVM pool )

Apache

• Install and start HTTP server

yum install httpd

service httpd start

chkconfig –levels 235 httpd on

• Adjust the apache config, set the documentroot in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf to the value you want as root for the repo’s.

DocumentRoot “/opt/soft/OVM3-YUM”

• Restart the Apache service to make the change active.

service httpd restart

Repo

• Create the required subdirectories

mkdir /opt/soft/OVM3-YUM/3.0.3

• Mount and copy the rpm’s

mount -o loop /opt/soft/OVM3/OVM-3.0.3.iso /cdrom

cd /cdrom

cp -rp Server/* /opt/soft/OVM3-YUM/3.0.3/.

• You can now access the repo using http

http://<ip>/3.0.3

Clients

• On the different OVM Servers you can create a file :  /etc/yum.repos.d/mylocal.repo with the following contents :

[base-local]

name=OVM 3.0.3

failovermethod=priority

baseurl=http://<ip>/3.0.3/

enabled=1

gpgcheck=0

• Or in OVM Manager Fill in the details in the yum repository settings.

Update

• Update your system using yum update or using the OVM Manager.

 

 

Upgrading OVM Manager 3.0.2 to 3.0.3

• Mount the ovm-upgrade cd

# mount -o loop V29654-01.iso /cdrom

• Run the Upgrade

# cd /cdrom

# ./runUpgrader.sh

upgrade: line 174: /u01/app/oracle/ovm-manager-3/.config: No such file or directory

• We ran into an issue with a missing .config file. Bases on other installs I found how the file should look, so I just created a new file with the information :

DBHOST=oem12rep

SID=OEMREP

LSNR=1521

APEX=8080 ( default )

OVSSCHEMA=ovs

WLSADMIN=weblogic ( default )

OVSADMIN=admin ( default )

COREPORT=54321 ( default )

UUID=0004fb0000010000601287fc46b3fab3 ( Can be found by checking the .ovsrepo file in the root of your repostiory )

• Run the Upgrade again, it will work now and after upgrade the .config file looks like this :

DBHOST=oem12rep

SID=OEMREP

LSNR=1521

APEX=8080

OVSSCHEMA=ovs

WLSADMIN=weblogic

OVSADMIN=admin

COREPORT=54321

UUID=0004fb0000010000601287fc46b3fab3

BUILDID=3.0.3.126