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SmartPlant Instrumentation Installation and Upgrade Guide

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SmartPlant Instrumentation is designed to use data stored in databases to construct and maintain your engineering data and domains.  Before installing the multi-user SmartPlant Instrumentation version for Oracle, you need to perform some preliminary procedures such as installing the Oracle database server, Oracle client, and configuring SmartPlant Instrumentation for connection to the database server.  To install Oracle, you must have some knowledge of the database installation procedures and basic conventions and features of your Windows environment.

When working on an Oracle platform, you maintain database-user relations by exchanging data with the database. To do this, Oracle maintains a multi-interface system that provides the desired connection along the data transfer path.

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The systems described in the above figure can be physically located on the same computer or on different computers which are connected on a local network.

The entire installation process consists of the following major steps:

  1. Installing the Oracle database server.  You perform this step only if you have not already installed the Oracle database server on your system.

  2. Installing the Oracle client and verifying the connection to the Oracle database server.  You perform this step only if you have not already installed the appropriate Oracle client on your system.

  3. Installing the appropriate SmartPlant Instrumentation components. up a SmartPlant

  4. Connecting to the Oracle database and setting up the SmartPlant Instrumentation database for Oracle (by running the DB Setup Utility).

  5. Creating a new SmartPlant Instrumentation domain.

First, you install and configure the database server where SmartPlant Instrumentation will store your data.  Then you install the Oracle client through which SmartPlant Instrumentation interfaces with the Oracle database server.  If you have already installed Oracle as your database server, you may need to modify your database server settings to adapt Oracle to support the SmartPlant Instrumentation database.

After installing the Oracle database server and the Oracle client, you install SmartPlant Instrumentation and configure the appropriate SmartPlant Instrumentation files.  This way you will also be able to use third-party applications such as CAD interfaces.

When Setup finishes installing the selected components, you need to configure SmartPlant Instrumentation to connect and work with Oracle.  At this stage, you create the tablespace required for the Admin schema.  For details, see the Administration User's Guide, Set Up a SmartPlant Instrumentation Database for Oracle.

The final stage is to initialize a new domain in Oracle and set the initial parameters of the domain.  This way you prepare the database for creating the domain plant hierarchy and defining engineering data.

  • We recommend installing and configuring Oracle locally, not by remote desktop connection.

  • Ensure that you obtain the appropriate serial number for the chosen type of SmartPlant Instrumentation installation (standard installation or special server installation for use with IDEAL).

In this document, whenever a string appears in brackets, type the value substituting the entire string, including the brackets.  For example: instead of <Oracle home folder>, type c:\orawin.