HP Storage Essentials V5.1 Installation Guide Second Edition (Linux Release) (T4283-96055, November 2006)

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IMPORTANT: Install the database for the management server on a computer that does not already
have Oracle installed. In later steps, you will install the management server on the same machine
that you installed Oracle.
Before Installing the Oracle Database
Keep in mind the following:
• Refer to the Support Matrix on the management server CD-ROM for system requirements.
• Once you start the installation, do not exit. The Oracle installer creates the orauser file within the
first few minutes of the installation. This file remains on the system if the installation is stopped
before completion. Future installations of the management server database look for the orauser
file to verify that the database is installed. If you exit the Oracle installation before the
installation is finished, the Oracle database is not installed and the management server cannot
run correctly without a successful database installation.
• Install the database on the computer on which you plan to install the management server.
• Before you can install Oracle on a Linux server, the Linux server must have X Window System
installed.
• Install the database on a Linux server, then install the Oracle patch.
• When you install the database on Linux, files with group writeable permissions are installed in
the ORA_HOME directory.
Prerequisites
Before you install the database on a Linux server, do the following:
• Verify that the server is running one of the following versions of Linux:
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 4
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9
• Verify that the server is running sh, ksh or bash shell.
• Verify the following directories have write permissions:
/
/tmp
Parent directory of ORA_HOME
• If you are running Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 4 or Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 4, delete the
existing Oracle user if present, before proceeding with the installation. The installation will fail if
there is an existing Oracle user.
• On SUSE Linux systems, on installing the ‘orarun’ rpm, the Oracle user account gets created
automatically. However the oracle user account needs to be enabled by changing the shell entry
from ‘/bin/false’ to ‘/bin/bash’ for oracle user in the /etc/passwd file.
• Setting of the kernel parameters for Oracle on both Red Hat and SUSE systems is handled by the
Oracle installer script and the user need not set the kernel parameters.
• At least 400 MB of free space is required in the /tmp directory.