# Installation Guide

# Gathering Materials

This chapter describes the information and materials you need to have to begin installing Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper.

- Understand the Basics
- Check Your Hardware
- Check Your Software

## Understand the Basics

Before starting installation, you should understand the basics of the Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper. These are covered in Concepts and Architectural Overview, a part of the Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper documentation set.

## Check Your Hardware

Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper has been tested to run on very specific hardware platforms. Supported Configurations are outlined in detail in Supported Configurations. Unless your installation has been specified differently in cooperation with Oracle, only these configurations are supported, as of the time of this writing:

Caution: | This list is subject to change. Always check the Release Notes for the most up-to-date list of supported configurations. Also always check the Release Notes to make sure you have the appropriate patches to your operating system installed.

## Check Your Software

You must have the following information and software available to complete this installation:

- Root passwords to the servers on which the software will be installed
- Database software, with appropriate licenses. The supported databases include:

- Oracle 10g, with RAC

Note: | This is the only supported configuration for production environments that require High Availability.

- Oracle 10g, Single Instance

Note: | Oracle databases must be installed on a dedicated server or cluster of servers.

- MySQL 5.0
- MySQL 5.1

Note: | MySQL is not supported for environments that require High Availability.

Caution: | Always check the Release Notes for the most up-to-date list of supported databases.

- The Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper installer. This is available from either the product CDs or the Oracle eDelivery site.