Grid Control Installation Requirements on Soalris SPARK

Hard Disk Space Requirements

The hard disk requirements are:

*4.5 GB for the "Enterprise Manager Grid Control Using a New Database" installation type

 *2.5 GB for the "Enterprise Manager Grid Control Using an Existing Database" installation typ

For Oracle Management Agent (Management Agent), the hard disk space required is

400 MB for Linux (32-bit) and500 MB for Microsoft Windows (32-bit).

Available Memory Requirements

The available operating memory requirements for installation are:

* To install "Enterprise Manager Grid Control Using a New Database," a minimum of 1 GB of available operating memory for the host

* To install "Enterprise Manager Grid Control Using an Existing Database," a minimum of 1 GB of available operating memory for the node

Operating Requirements

The hardware requirements to run Enterprise Manager are:

* Minimum of 2 GB of free physical memory for the host running the Management Service

* Minimum of 2 GB of free physical memory for the Management Repository node

Operating System Requirements

The operating system must be one of the following, with the listed (or later) kernel version if you are installing the new database:

*Solaris 8 Update 7 or later

 * Solaris 9 Update 6 or later

 *Solaris 10

Packages Requirements

The system must be running the following (or later) package versions:

* SUNWarc

*SUNWbtool

*SUNWhea

*SUNWlibm

*SUNWlibms

*SUNWsprot

*SUNWsprox

*SUNWtoo

*SUNWi1of

 *SUNWxwfnt

*SUNWi1cs

*SUNWi15cs

Required Patches

The patches required for the different Solaris versions are listed below:

Solaris 8

*108652-74 or higher: X11 6.4.1: Xsun patch

*108921-18 or higher: CDE 1.4: dtwm patch

*108940-57 or higher: Motif 1.2.7 and 2.1.1: Runtime library patch

*108773-18 or higher: IIIM and X input and output method patch

*111310-01 or higher: /usr/lib/libdhcpagent.so.1 patch

*109147-26 or higher: Linker patch

*111308-04 or higher: /usr/lib/libmtmalloc.so.1 patch

* 111111-03 or higher: /usr/bin/nawk patch

* 112396-02 or higher: /usr/bin/fgrep patch

 *110386-03 or higher: RBAC feature patch

*111023-02 or higher: /kernel/fs/mntfs and /kernel/fs/sparcv9/mntfs patch

*108987-13 or higher: Patch for patchadd and patchrm

*108528-26 or higher: Kernel update patch

*108989-02 or higher: /usr/kernel/sys/acctctl and /usr/kernel/sys/exacctsys patch

*108993-45 or higher: LDAP2 client, libc, libthread and libnsl libraries patch

 * 111023-02 or higher: Unable to load fontset ... iso-1 or iso-15

Solaris 9

 * 113096-03 or higher: X11 6.6.1: OWconfig patch

*112785-35 or higher: X11 6.6.1: Xsun patch

Kernel Parameters Requirements

The system must have at least the following recommended kernel parameters:

Solaris 8 and 9

Verify that the following kernel parameters have been set to a equal to or greater than the value specified in this table:

Parameter          Recommended Value

noexec_user_stack         1

semsys:seminfo_semmni            100

semsys:seminfo_semmsl            256

shmsys:shminfo_shmmax           4294967295

shmsys:shminfo_shmmin            1

shmsys_shminfo_shmmni           100

shmsys:shminfo_shmseg             10

Solaris 10

On Solaris 10, verify that the kernel parameters shown in the following table are set to values equal to or greater than the recommended values. The table also lists the resource controls that replace the /etc/system file for a specific kernel parameter.

Table 1 Solaris 10 Kernel Parameters

Parameter          Resource Control             Recommended Values

noexec_user_stack         NA                                          1

semsys:seminfo_semmni            project.max-sem_ids     100

semsys:seminfo_semmsl            project.max-sem-nsems                              256

shmsys:shminfo_shmmax           project.max-shm-memory          4294967295

shmsys:shminfo_shmni                                project.max-shm-ids                     100