On Bootstrapping Oracle's 10g XE EC2 Image

Mike — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 12:37:00 -0400

Oracle has made a number of their products available for use on Amazon's EC2 service. Unfortunately, each instance of their 10g XE RDBMS image must be configured manually via ssh before use.

Turns out that the 10g XE image hijacks the bash profile script to force manual configuration. If one was motivated to enable unattended configuration of the image, the bash profile script could be un-hijacked with scp:

  mpierson:$ scp -i EC2_KEY my-bash-profile.sh root@<EC2-HOST-NAME>:/root/.bash_profile

BTW, the hijack script overwritten by scp above is also a good starting point for an script that would bring the database online in an unattended scenario. Here's what it does:

force acceptance of Oracle EC2 license
force change to oracle system user
set Oracle environment, including host name
force change to SYSTEM and SYS oracle db accounts

Tech-Blog: On Bootstrapping Oracle's 10g XE EC2 Image

On Bootstrapping Oracle's 10g XE EC2 Image