Oracle® Database Database Installation Guide 18c for Oracle Solaris E83747-05 July 2019 Oracle Database Database Installation Guide, 18c for Oracle Solaris E83747-05 Copyright © 2015, 2019, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Primary Author: Prakash Jashnani Contributing Authors: Douglas Williams, Subhash Chandra Contributors: Neha Avasthy, Prasad Bagal, Subhranshu Banerjee, Mark Bauer, Parvathi Subramanian, Tam‐ my Bednar, Eric Belden, Gavin Bowe, Robert Chang, Bernard Clouse, Darcy Christensen, Kiran Chamala, Sampath Ravindhran, Jonathan Creighton, Benoit Dageville, Sudip Datta, Santosh Loke, Alta Elstad, Peter Dennis, Jim Erickson, Marcus Fallen, Joseph Francis, Alan Coopersmith, Mark Fuller, Allan Graves, Barbara Glover, Asad Hasan, Subrahmanyam Kodavaluru, Thirumaleshwara Hasandka, Shasank Chavan, Sekhar Lakkapragada, Richard Roddy, Lisa Shepherd, Clara Jaeckel, Aneesh Khandelwal, Maria Colgan, Joel Kall‐ man, Eugene Karichkin, Jai Krishnani, Sangeeth Kumar, Ranjith Kundapur, Kevin Jernigan, Christopher Jones, Simon Law, Bryn Llewellyn, Saar Maoz, Sreejith Minnanghat, Gopal Mulagund, Sue Lee, Rich Long, Barb Lundhild, Prasad Kuruvadi Nagaraj, Rudregowda Mallegowda, Padmanabhan Manavazhi, Mughees Minhas, Krishna Mohan, Matthew McKerley, John McHugh, Gurudas Pai, Satish Panchumarthy , Rajesh Pra‐ sad, Rajendra Pingte, Prasad K Kulkarni, Srinivas Poovala, Mohammed Shahnawaz Quadri, Hanlin Qian, Gurumurthy Ramamurthy, Hema Ramamurthy, Sunil Ravindrachar, Mark Richwine, Dipak Saggi, Logeshwar‐ an Rajan, Rajesh Dasari, Angad Gokakkar , Anu Natarajan, Girdhari Ghantiyala, Chandrasekharan Iyer, Da‐ vid Jimenez, Robert Achacoso, Vishal Saxena, Vasu Venkatasubramanian, Suman Palavalli, Sameer Joshi, Malai Stalin, Markus Michalewicz, Subrahmanyam Kodavaluru, Michael Coulter, Sudip Datta, Trivikrama Sa‐ mudrala, Ramesh Chakravarthula, David Schreiner, Ara Shakian, David Price, Mohit Singhal, Dharma Sirna‐ palli, Akshay Shah, James Spiller, Roy Swonger, Binoy Sukumaran, Kamal Tbeileh, Ravi Thammaiah, Rau‐ nak Rungta, Shekhar Vaggu, Ankur Kemkar, Preethi Vallam, Ajesh Viswambharan, Peter Wahl, Terri Win‐ ters, Sivaram Soma, Sergiusz Wolicki, Sivakumar Yarlagadda, Zakia Zerhouni This software and related documentation are provided under a license agreement containing restrictions on use and disclosure and are protected by intellectual property laws. 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Contents Preface Audience xi Documentation Accessibility xi Set Up Java Access Bridge to Implement Java Accessibility xii Command Syntax xii Related Documentation xiii Conventions xiii Changes in this Release for Oracle Database Changes in Oracle Database Release 18c xv 1 Oracle Database Installation Checklist Server Hardware Checklist for Oracle Database Installation 1-1 Operating System Checklist for Oracle Database on Oracle Solaris 1-2 Server Configuration Checklist for Oracle Database Installation 1-3 Oracle User Environment Configuration Checklist for Oracle Database Installation 1-5 Storage Checklist for Oracle Database Installation 1-6 Installer Planning Checklist for Oracle Database 1-6 Deployment Checklist for Oracle Database 1-9 2 Checking and Configuring Server Hardware for Oracle Database Logging In to a Remote System Using X Window System 2-1 Checking Server Hardware and Memory Configuration 2-2 3 Automatically Configuring Oracle Solaris with Oracle Database Pre‐ requisites Packages About the Oracle Database Prerequisites Packages for Oracle Solaris 3-1 Checking the Oracle Database Prerequisites Packages Installation 3-2 iii Installing the Oracle Database Prerequisites Packages for Oracle Solaris 3-3 4 Configuring Oracle Solaris Operating System for Oracle Database Guidelines for Oracle Solaris Operating System Installation 4-1 Reviewing Operating System and Software Upgrade Best Practices 4-2 General Upgrade Best Practices 4-2 New Server Operating System Upgrade Option 4-3 Oracle ASM Upgrade Notifications 4-3 Reviewing Operating System Security Common Practices 4-4 About Installation Fixup Scripts 4-4 About Operating System Requirements 4-5 Operating System Requirements for Oracle Solaris on SPARC (64-Bit) 4-5 Supported Oracle Solaris 11 Releases for SPARC (64-Bit) 4-6 Supported Oracle Solaris 10 Releases for SPARC (64-Bit) 4-7 Operating System Requirements for Oracle Solaris on x86–64 (64-Bit) 4-8 Supported Oracle Solaris 11 Releases for x86-64 (64-Bit) 4-9 Supported Oracle Solaris 10 Releases for x86-64 (64-Bit) 4-10 Additional Drivers and Software Packages for Oracle Solaris 4-11 Installing Oracle Messaging Gateway 4-11 Installation Requirements for ODBC and LDAP 4-11 About ODBC Drivers and Oracle Database 4-12 Installing ODBC Drivers for Oracle Solaris 4-12 About LDAP and Oracle Plug-ins 4-12 Installing the LDAP Package 4-12 Installation Requirements for Programming Environments for Oracle Solaris 4-12 Installation Requirements for Web Browsers 4-14 Checking the Software Requirements for Oracle Solaris 4-14 Verifying Operating System Version on Oracle Solaris 4-14 Verifying Operating System Packages on Oracle Solaris 4-15 Verifying Operating System Patches on Oracle Solaris 10 4-16 Confirming Host Name Resolution 4-16 Using Automatic SSH Configuration During Installation 4-17 5 Configuring Users, Groups and Environments for Oracle Grid Infra‐ structure and Oracle Database Required Operating System Groups and Users 5-1 Determining If an Oracle Inventory and Oracle Inventory Group Exist 5-2 Creating the Oracle Inventory Group If an Oracle Inventory Does Not Exist 5-3 About Oracle Installation Owner Accounts 5-3 iv Identifying an Oracle Software Owner User Account 5-3 Oracle Installations with Standard and Job Role Separation Groups and Users 5-4 About Oracle Installations with Job Role Separation 5-5 Standard Oracle Database Groups for Database Administrators 5-6 Extended Oracle Database Groups for Job Role Separation 5-6 Creating an ASMSNMP User 5-7 Oracle Automatic Storage Management Groups for Job Role Separation 5-7 Creating Operating System Privileges Groups 5-8 Creating the OSDBA for ASM Group 5-9 Creating the OSOPER for ASM Group 5-9 Creating the OSDBA Group for Database Installations 5-9 Creating an OSOPER Group for Database Installations 5-10 Creating the OSBACKUPDBA Group for Database Installations 5-10 Creating the OSDGDBA Group for Database Installations 5-10 Creating the OSKMDBA Group for Database Installations 5-11 Creating the OSRACDBA Group