Installing Session Monitor for the First Time using the Configured Repo Server

Log in to the OCSM server as root or root privileged user.

Rename all Repos under /etc/yum.repos.d

mv /etc/yum.repos.d/oracle-linux-ol8.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/oracle-linux-ol8.repo_bkp
mv /etc/yum.repos.d/uek-ol8.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/uek-ol8.repo_bkp
mv /etc/yum.repos.d/virt-ol8.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/virt-ol8.repo_bkp
	mv /etc/yum.repos.d/oracle-epel-ol8.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/oracle-epel-ol8.repo_bkp

Create /etc/yum.repos.d/ocsm.repo with the following content:

[OCSM]
name=OCSM dependencies
baseurl=ftp://<REPO_SERVER_IP>/pub/ocsm/
gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-oracle
gpgcheck=0
enabled=1
proxy=_none_

Clean up the repo by running the following command:

yum clean all

Verify the repolist by running the following command:

# yum repolist
repo id repo name
OCSM OCSM dependencies

Copy the following from the Repo server to the Session Monitor server in temporary directory, such as /tmp/dependency/ and install those RPMs on Session Monitor server in this order.

yum install perl-IO-Socket-SSL-2.066-4.module+el8.6.0+20623+f0897f98.noarch.rpm
perl-Mozilla-CA-20160104-7.0.1.module+el8.3.0+21136+b437fca9.noarch.rpm
perl-Net-SSLeay-1.88-2.module+el8.6.0+20623+f0897f98.x86_64.rpm

Install the MySQL 8.0.39 rpms using following command:

yum install mysql-commercial-*

Copy the following RPMs from the repo Server to the OCSM Server in a temporary directory, such as /tmp/dependency/ and install the RPMs on OCSM Server in this order:

1.rpm -ivh python39-setuptools-wheel-50.3.2-5.module+el8.10.0+90269+2fa22b99.noarch.rpm
2. rpm -ivh python39-pip-wheel-20.2.4-9.module+el8.10.0+90269+2fa22b99.noarch.rpm
3. rpm -ivh python39-libs-3.9.19-1.module+el8.10.0+90341+71ca88f4.x86_64.rpm
4. rpm -ivh python39-3.9.19-1.module+el8.10.0+90341+71ca88f4.x86_64.rpm
5. rpm -ivh python39-pip-20.2.4-9.module+el8.10.0+90269+2fa22b99.noarch.rpm
6. rpm -ivh python39-pyyaml-5.4.1-1.module+el8.9.0+90016+9c2d6573.x86_64.rpm

Download the following protobuf package from https://pypi.org/project/protobuf/3.20.3/#files to a temporary directory, such as /tmp/dependency/ directory of OCSM Server:

protobuf-3.20.3-cp39-cp39-manylinux_2_5_x86_64.manylinux1_x86_64.whl

Download the following MySQL Connector package from MOS to the same temporary directory used in Step 8, such as /tmp/dependency/ directory of the OCSM Server.

MySQL Connector 8.0.33 Package: p35301971_800_Linux-x86-64.zip
( Patch 35301971: MySQL Connector/Python 8.0.33 WHL for portable Linux x86 (64bit) Python 3.9 )

Note:

Please use the MySQL Connector 8.0.33 for offline installation. The SM dependencies used here are based on MySQL 8.0.39, installing a different version of MySQL may require dependency changes

Set python alternatives to python3.9 by running the following commands:

update-alternatives --config python3
update-alternatives --config python

Caution:

When prompted, select the number corresponding to python3.9 option and press the Enter key.

Note:

After the OCSM Installation, while installing any new packages using yum, some packages will install Python 3.6 as a dependency. As a result Python alternatives will get changed. This can cause unexpected problems in the OCSM functionality. So it is mandatory for you to verify that Python is pointing to python 39 after every package installation using yum by running the above two commands.

From the temporary directory, such as /tmp/dependency/, run the following commands to install MySQL Connector:

cd /tmp/dependency/
yum install unzip
unzip p35301971_800_Linux-x86-64.zip
pip3 install mysql_connector_python-8.0.33-1commercial-cp39-cp39-manylinux1_x86_64.whl --no-index --find-links=/tmp/dependency/

Install OCSM by running the following command:

yum -y install ocsm

Note:

For information on post-RPM installation tasks such as Disabling Firewall, Enabling SELinux, refer to the section Installing Session Monitor Using the RPM.

OCSM Installation is now complete.