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Requirements

This chapter provides information about the hardware and software items required for the installation of the Oracle9i Application Server, Oracle9iAS Client, and the online documentation. The topics include:

• Hardware Requirements

• Software Requirements

• Certified Software

• Oracle9iAS Client Requirements

• Online Documentation Requirements

Hardware Requirements

The following table contains the hardware requirements for Oracle9i Application Server.

Hardware Items	Platform	Requirements
CPU	AIX	all AIX compatible processors (32-bit or 64-bit)
	Tru64	Alpha Processor
	HP	HP 9000 Series HP-UX processor for HP-UX 11.0 (32-bit or 64-bit)
	Linux	Pentium Pro or better
Memory		640 MB
Disk Space		Core Edition: 450 MB Minimal Edition: Up to 1 GB Standard Edition: 1.7 to 2 GB Enterprise Edition: 6 to 6.5 GB
TMP or Swap Space		512 MB or twice the amount of RAM, whichever is greater

Make note of the following:

• The disk space must be available on a single disk. Oracle9i Application Server does not support spanning the installation over multiple disks.

• Origin database must have minimum free disk space for the following:
  • System Tablespace: 1 GB

  • User Tablespace: 400 MB

For Standard Edition Only: You will need an additional 430 MB disk space on your Oracle9i Application Server machine to install the Oracle Enterprise Java Engine database. The database files do not have to be installed on the same disk as the Oracle9i Application Server Oracle home.

Software Requirements

For the latest information, refer to OracleMetaLink at:

http://metalink.oracle.com

The following tables contains the software requirements for Oracle9i Application Server.

• Table 1-1 lists the software requirements for AIX-Based Systems.

• Table 1-2 lists the software requirements for Compaq Tru64 UNIX systems.

• Table 1-3 lists the software requirements for HP 9000 Series HP-UX.

• Table 1-4 lists the software requirements for Linux Intel.

  Table 1-1 Software Requirements for AIX-Based Systems

  Item	Requirement
  Operating System and JDK	AIX 4.3.2 and JDK 1.1.8.3 and the software patches listed below AIX 4.3.3 and JDK 1.2.2 or JDK 1.1.8.3
  Operating System patches for AIX 4.3.2	IX72696 Segmentation fault can occur in WALK_LIBS(LOADANDINIT()) IX81863 AIX process hangs in listlio and liowait IX85104 msgget() returns a negative number IX87313 64-bit application buffer cannot cross segment boundary IX87382 Socket lock problem for AF_UNIX IX89087 Thread doing AIO hangs in stress test IX89552 System crashes with corrupted stack IY02407 AIO bug in v_movep IY03412 aio_nwait system call 1Y05995 Thread missed wakeup in aio_nwait() 1Y07276 aio_suspend returns without I/O completion on 00/03/09 PTF pechange 1Y01050 Support for non-root access to kernel perf stat
  Window Manager	Use any supported IBM AIX window manager that supports Motif, such as dtwm, twm, and olwm.
  Shell	Korn shell

  Table 1-2 Software Requirements for Compaq Tru64 UNIX

  Item	Requirement
  Operating System	Compaq Tru64 UNIX 4.0d-g, 5.0, 5.0a, 5.1, or 5.1a
  Software	JDK 1.1.8 and 1.2.2
  Operating System Patches	4.0d patchkit 8 or higher 4.0e patchkit 4 or higher 4.0f patchkit 2 or higher 4.0g pathkit 2 or higher 5.0 patchkit 2 or higher 5.0a patchkit 2 or higher 5.1 patchkit 2 or higher
  Operating System Packages	The OSFLIBA, OSFPGMR, and OSFCMPLRS subsets. These subsets are part of the Compaq Tru64 UNIX operating system distribution.
  Window Manager	X Windows must be installed on the system from where the Installer is run. Use any Compaq-supported X Windows server with support for Motif, such as dtwm, twm, and mwm. Character mode installations are not supported for Oracle9i Application Server Release 1 (v1.0.2.2.2) The X environments, Basic X-environments (OSF11), and X Servers (OSFSER) are required to run graphical products.
  Required Executables	The following executables must be present in the /usr/ccs/bin directory: make, ar, ld, and nm.
  Shells	Korn shell and Bourne shell

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  Table 1-3 Software Requirements for HP 9000 Series HP-UX

  Item	Requirements
  Operating System	HP-UX 11.0, 11.11 or B.11.19 or higher (32-bit or 64-bit)
  Software	JDK 1.1.8.04 (or higher) and 1.2.2
  Operating System Patches	Dart49, June 2000 Patch bundle PHSS_21947 PHNE_20316 PHKL_21392 PHKL_21348
  Required Executables	The following executables must be present in the /usr/ccs/bin directory: make, ar, ld, nm, and cc.
  Shells	Korn Shell

  Table 1-4 Software Requirements for Linux Intel

  Item	Requirement
  Operating System	SuSe 7.2: Linux Kernel 2.4.4 or later, glibc 2.2.2-53 For the GNU LibC patch, go to the following address: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/supplementary/com mercial/Oracle/glibc-7.2-jdk1.3.1/ RedHat 7.1: Linux Kernel 2.4.3-12 or later, glibc 2.2.2-10
  Software	Blackdown's JDK 1.1.8v3 available from the following address: http://www.blackdown.org Sun's JDK 1.3.1 available from the following address: http://java.sun.com XFree86 Development 3.3.3.1 or later Open Motif 2.1.30
  Shells	Korn shell

Certified Software

Installation of the Oracle9i Application Server requires an Oracle database. A complete list of certified software, including databases, for Oracle9i Application Server can be found at OracleMetaLink:

http://metalink.oracle.com

Oracle9iAS Client Requirements

The following table contains the requirements for the installation of Oracle9iAS Client.

See Also: Appendix B, "Installing Oracle9i Application Server Administrative and Development Client CD-ROM"

Hardware Items	Required
Operating System	Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, with Service Pack 5.0 or higher Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 1. Some components might malfunction if Service Pack 1 is not available.
CPU	Pentium II 266
Memory	At least 64 MB RAM for running both the Oracle9iAS Wireless Service Designer and Web Integration Developer; at least 32 MB RAM for running the Oracle9iAS Wireless Service Designer.
Disk Space	40 MB for running both the Oracle9iAS Wireless Service Designer and Web Integration Developer; at least 20 MB for running the Oracle9iAS Wireless Service Designer.
JDK 1.2.2	The client system requires JDK 1.2.2. You can install JDK 1.2.2 for Windows NT from the client CD-ROM. Make the JDK directory the first entry in the system environment path.

Online Documentation Requirements

The following table contains the tools and disk space requirements for the installation of the Oracle9i Application Server online documentation. The documentation library can be installed on a separate machine.

See Also: Appendix E, "Installing Documentation Library"

Requirement	Items
Online Readers	Requires any one of the following: HTML Netscape Navigator 3.0 or higher Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 or higher PDF Acrobat Reader 3.0 or higher Acrobat Reader+Search 3.0 or higher Acrobat Exchange 3.0 or higher PDFViewer Web browser plug-in 1.0 or higher
Disk Space	265 MB

Restrictions

This section describes the following restrictions:

• Cache Server and Admin Server ulimit Requirement

• Deploying EJB in a Database

Cache Server and Admin Server ulimit Requirement

Before starting Cache Server and Admin Server in Oracle Web Cache, increase the data segment to 650 MB with the following command:

ulimit -d 650000

Deploying EJB in a Database

To deploy EJB in a database, increase the JAVA_POOL_SIZE and SHARED_POOL_SIZE initialization parameters to 50 MB and set the LARGE_POOL_SIZE initialization parameter to 0 in the initSID.ora file. After setting these parameters, restart the database.

Oracle Home Path

There are limits of length of CLASSPATH values with JDK. If the Oracle home path is long and there are many wrapper.classpath entries in the jserv.conf file, it might cause problems with the jserv process. The workaround is to shorten Oracle home path.

Location of Files

Please note the location of the oratab and oraInst.loc file for each platform:

Table 1-5 File Locations for Each Platform

Platform	oratab	oraInst.loc
AIX-Based Systems	/etc	/etc
Compaq Tru64 UNIX	/etc	/var/opt/oracle
HP 9000 Series HP-UX	/etc	/var/opt/oracle
Linux Intel	/var/opt/oracle	/var/opt/oracle