Using dbca to setup Oracle 12c CDB & PDB via a silent response file

One of the key new features for Oracle 12c are the new Container Database (CDB) to a Pluggable Database (PDB).Naturally these are a big part of the OCP exam (IZO-060).

I have started investigating this new feature by setting up a dbca response file:

[oracle@ora12c66 ~]$ cat /vagrant/dbca_cdb_pdb.rsp

[GENERAL]

RESPONSEFILE_VERSION=12.1.0

[CREATEDATABASE]

OPERATION_TYPE=createDatabase

createAsContainerDatabase=true

TEMPLATENAME = "General_Purpose.dbc"

SYSPASSWORD = "qwe123"

SYSTEMPASSWORD = "qwe123"

SYSMANPASSWORD = "qwe123"

DBSNMPPASSWORD = "qwe123"

pdbAdminPassword = "qwe123"

CHARACTERSET = "UTF8"

NATIONALCHARACTERSET= "UTF8"

createAsContainerDatabase="true"

pdbName="pdb1"

numberOfPDBs="1"

sid="cdborcl"

gdbName="cdborcl"

emConfiguration="DBEXPRESS"

storageType="FS"

datafileDestination="/u01/oradata"

and running dbca

[oracle@ora12c66 ~]$ dbca -silent -createDatabase -responseFile  /vagrant/dbca_cdb_pdb.rsp

Enter PDBADMIN User Password:

Copying database files

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Creating and starting Oracle instance

29% complete

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Completing Database Creation

48% complete

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Creating Pluggable Databases

78% complete

100% complete

Look at the log file "/u01/cfgtoollogs/dbca/cdborcl/cdborcl.log" for further details.

as above, this worked as expected, excepted I had to enter the pdbAdminPassword password above? This looks a bit like the currently unanswered question (ie "but it must manuallly input PDBADMIN password") in:

http://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/67851/how-to-create-database1-cdb-and-2-pdb-by-dbca-silent-mode-with-response-file#_=_

Lastly, for the record here is my install log:

[oracle@ora12c66 ~]$ cat /u01/cfgtoollogs/dbca/cdborcl/cdborcl.log

Unique database identifier check passed.

/ has enough space. Required space is 8260 MB , available space is 29709 MB.

File Validations Successful.

Copying database files

DBCA_PROGRESS : 1%

DBCA_PROGRESS : 2%

DBCA_PROGRESS : 8%

DBCA_PROGRESS : 13%

DBCA_PROGRESS : 19%

DBCA_PROGRESS : 24%

DBCA_PROGRESS : 27%

Creating and starting Oracle instance

DBCA_PROGRESS : 29%

DBCA_PROGRESS : 32%

DBCA_PROGRESS : 33%

DBCA_PROGRESS : 34%

DBCA_PROGRESS : 38%

DBCA_PROGRESS : 42%

DBCA_PROGRESS : 43%

DBCA_PROGRESS : 45%

Completing Database Creation

DBCA_PROGRESS : 48%

DBCA_PROGRESS : 51%

DBCA_PROGRESS : 53%

DBCA_PROGRESS : 62%

DBCA_PROGRESS : 64%

DBCA_PROGRESS : 72%

Creating Pluggable Databases

DBCA_PROGRESS : 78%

DBCA_PROGRESS : 100%

Database creation complete. For details check the logfiles at:

/u01/cfgtoollogs/dbca/cdborcl.

Database Information:

Global Database Name:cdborcl

System Identifier(SID):cdborcl