REQUIREMENTS

 Oracle 12.1.0. OS Solaris 5.10 requirements

Srinivas Maddali

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On Solaris 10

1.  User limits to create oracle basic shell

2.  Kernel parameter

3.  TCP parameters

4.  Required packages

5.  Some clarifications

Please note that "project.max-shm-memory" represent the maximum shared memory available for a project, so the value for this parameter should be greater than sum of all SGA sizes.

Clarification

This meant for single Oracle Home supporting multiple databases. Example as idev-db-sca01, dev-db-sca02 and qa-fred-db01. We used to have similar situation until recently in stage and prod as one oracle user has multiple oracle homes and the relation there was home to instance was 1 to 1 while Oracle is one user to own all instances. Here also the same situation and the above statement is valid as at OS we define only one project as user to project is 1:1.

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Software Requirements

Oracle Solaris 10 Update 10 (Oracle Solaris 10 8/11 s10s_u10wos_17b) or later.

Update level can be checked from "/etc/release" file and verified thru below command.

#/usr/bin/pkginfo -l SUNWsolnm

Warning:
Applying a kernel patch or a Solaris patch bundle is not the equivalent to installing the specific Solaris 10 "update 10" image.

Oracle Database 12.1 software is only certified for a base install image of Solaris 10 update 10 or greater.

Package Requirement

* The following packages (or later versions) must be installed:

SUNWarc
SUNWbtool
SUNWcsl
SUNWdtrc
SUNWhea
SUNWi1cs (ISO8859-1)
SUNWi15cs (ISO8859-15)
SUNWi1of
SUNWlibC
SUNWlibm
SUNWlibms
SUNWsprot
SUNWtoo
SUNWxwfnt

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Packages can be checked as:

%/bin/pkginfo -iSUNWarcSUNWbtoolSUNWcslSUNWdtrc SUNWhea SUNWi15cs SUNWi1cs SUNWi1of SUNWlibCSUNWlibmSUNWlibmsSUNWsprotSUNWtooSUNWxwfnt

Requirements for Programming Environments for Oracle Solaris

Additional Requirements

Additionally, the following installation pre-requisites must be met if the specific Oracle product listed is being installed:

Oracle JDBC/OCI Drivers:

JDK 6 Update 10 (Java SE Development Kit 1.6 u10) or JDK 5 (1.5.0_16) with the JNDI extension with the Oracle Java Database Connectivity and Oracle Call Interface drivers.
However, these are not mandatory for the database installation. Please note that JDK 1.5.0 is installed with this release.

Oracle Messaging Gateway:

IBM MQSeries V6.0, client and server
Tibco Rendezvous 7.2

OS Environment

Kernel parameters

Solaris 10 uses the resource control facility to implement the System V IPC.
However, Oracle recommends that you set both resource control and /etc/system/ parameters.
Operating system parameters not replaced by resource controls continue to affect performance and security on Solaris 10 systems.

Please note that "project.max-shm-memory" represent the maximum shared memory available for a project, so the value for this parameter should be greater than sum of all SGA sizes.

Please refer to the following document for checking/setting kernel parameter values using resource control:

Note 429191.1  Kernel setup for Solaris 10 using project files.

Mount options

Checking Shared Memory File System Mount
Ensure that the /dev/shm mount area is of type tmpfs and is mounted with the following options:

?Withrw and execute permissions set on it
? With noexec or nosuid not set on it

umask

The 'umask' setting for the "oracle" user has to be 022.

Hostname

Hostname command should return the fully qualified hostname as shown below:

# hostname
hostname.domainname

Shell Limits

Oracle recommends that you set shell limits and system configuration parameters as documented below:

Note: The shell limit values in this section are minimum values only.
For production database systems, Oracle recommends that you tune these values to optimize the performance of the system.
See your operating system documentation for more information on configuring shell limits.

To display the current value specified for these shell limits enter the following commands:

# ulimit -t
# ulimit -f
# ulimit -d
# ulimit -s
# ulimit -n
# ulimit -v