Installation Requirements for Grid Control 10g Release 2 on RHEL 4.8

Installing Grid Control 10.2.0.1 on Red Hat Linux 4.8

Hardware Requirements:

For OMS:

Deployment Size Host CPU/Host Physical Memory (RAM)/Host Total Space

100 targets 1 1 (3GHz) 2GB 2GB

For OMR:

100 targets 1 1 (3GHz) 2 GB 10 GB

For Agent:

For Oracle Management Agent (Management Agent), the hard disk space required is 400 MB for Linux (32-bit)

Software Requirements:

The OMS host and the Repository host must be located in close proximity to each other. Ideally, the round trip network latency between the two should be less than 1 millisecond.
Before installing any of the components, ensure that the host names and IP addresses are configured properly in the /etc/hosts file.
For example,for installing a Management Agent on a host, ensure that the host name specified in the /etc/hosts file maps to the correct IP address of that host.
The recommended "umask" is 022. Set the default file mode creation mask (umask) to 022 in the shell startup file.

Requirements for OMS:

Recommended RPM’s

Please make sure the following RPM’s or their later versions are installed in the system.

glibc-2.3.4-2.9
make-3.79
binutils-2.15.92.0.2-13
gcc-3.4.3-22.1
libaio-0.3.96
glibc-common-2.3.4-2.9
setarch-1.6-1
pdksh-5.2.14-30
openmotif21-2.1.30-11
sysstat-5.0.5-1
gnome-libs-1.4.1.2.90-44.1
libstdc++-3.4.3-22.1
libstdc++devel-3.4.3-22.1
compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-132.7.2
compat-db-4.1.25-9
control-center-2.8.0-12
xscreensaver-4.18-5.rhel4.2

Recommended Kernel Parameters:

kernel.shmall = 2097152
kernel.shmmax = 536870912
kernel.shmmni = 4096
kernel.sem = 250 32000 100 128
fs.file-max = 65536
# semaphores: semmsl, semmns, semopm, semmni
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 65000
net.core.rmem_default = 262144
net.core.rmem_max = 262144
net.core.wmem_default = 262144
net.core.wmem_max = 262144

Requirements for Agent:
RPM’s:
• Make-3.79
• binutils-2.14
• gcc-3.2
Kernel Parameters:
• semmsl = 250
• semmsl2 = 250
• semmns = 32000
• semopm = 100
• semmni = 128
• shmmax = 2147483648
• shmmni = 4096
• shmall = 2097152
• filemax = 65536
• ip_local_port_range = 1024 65000
• rmem_default = 262144
• rmem_max = 262144
• wmem_default = 262144
• wmem_max = 262144

Requirements for Oracle Database 10g Release 2:
Recommended RPM’s:
binutils-2.15.92.0.2-13.EL4
compat-db-4.1.25-9
compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-132.7.2
control-center-2.8.0-12
gcc-3.4.3-22.1.EL4
gcc-c++-3.4.3-22.1.EL44
glibc-2.3.4-2.9
glibc-common-2.3.4-2.9
gnome-libs-1.4.1.2.90-44.1
libstdc++-3.4.3-22.1
libstdc++-devel-3.4.3-22.1
make-3.80-5
pdksh-5.2.14-30
sysstat-5.0.5-1
xscreensaver-4.18-5.rhel4.2
setarch-1.6-1


Recommended Kernel Parameters:
kernel.shmall = 2097152
kernel.shmmax = 2147483648
kernel.shmmni = 4096
kernel.sem = 250 32000 100 128
fs.file-max = 65536
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 65000
net.core.rmem_default = 1048576
net.core.rmem_max = 1048576
net.core.wmem_default = 262144
net.core.wmem_max = 262144

Adding Groups and Users
groupadd oinstall
groupadd dba
groupadd oper

useradd –d /home/oracle -g oinstall -G dba –m -s /bin/ksh oracle
passwd oracle


Before installing the software, follow these steps to verify that the nobody user exists on the system:
1. To determine whether the user exists, enter the following command:
# id nobody
If this command displays information about the nobody user, then you do not have to create that user.
2. If the nobody user does not exist, then enter the following command to create it:
# /usr/sbin/useradd nobody


Run Prereqchecker before starting the installation:
/install/runInstaller -prereqchecker PREREQ_CONFIG_
LOCATION=/rdbms/Disk1/stage/prereq -entryPoint
-prereqLogLoc -silent -waitForCompletion


Prerequisites for Upgrade to 10.2.0.4 or 10.2.0.5 :
RPM’s:
• glibc-2.3.4-2.9
• glibc-devel-2.3.4-2.9.i386.rpm
• make-3.79
• binutils-2.15.92.0.2-13
• gcc-3.4.3-22.1
• libaio-0.3.96
• glibc-common-2.3.4-2.9
• setarch-1.6-1
• pdksh-5.2.14-30
• openmotif21-2.1.30-11
• sysstat-5.0.5-1
• gnome-libs-1.4.1.2.90-44.1
• libstdc++-3.4.3-22.1
• libstdc++devel-3.4.3-22.1
• compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-132.7.2
• compat-db-4.1.25-9
• control-center-2.8.0-12
• xscreensaver-4.18-5.rhel4.2
Kernel Parameters:
• semmsl = 250
• semmsl2 = 250
• semmns = 32000
• semopm = 100
• semmni = 128
• shmmax = 536870912
• shmmni = 4096
• shmall = 2097152
• filemax = 65536
• ip_local_port_range = 1024 65000
• rmem_default = 262144
• rmem_max = 262144
• wmem_default = 262144
• wmem_max = 262144