Oracle® Database Database Installation Guide 18c for HP-UX Itanium E83742-01 November 2018 Oracle Database Database Installation Guide, 18c for HP-UX Itanium E83742-01 Copyright © 2015, 2018, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Primary Author: Prakash Jashnani Contributing Authors: Douglas Williams, Mark Bauer Contributors: Subhash C Chandra, Neha Avasthy, Prasad Bagal, Subhranshu Banerjee, Mark Bauer, Tammy Bednar, Eric Belden, Gavin Bowe, Robert Chang, Darcy Christensen, Kiran Chamala, Jonathan Creighton, Benoit Dageville, Sudip Datta, Jim Erickson, Marcus Fallen, Joseph Francis, Mark Fuller, Allan Graves, Barbara Glover, Asad Hasan, Thirumaleshwara Hasandka, Malai Stalin, Clara Jaeckel, Michael Coulter, Aneesh Khandelwal, Joel Kallman, 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, Parvathi Subramanian, Rudregowda Mallegowda, Padmanabhan Manavazhi, Mughees Minhas, Krishna Mohan, Matthew McKerley, John McHugh, Gurudas Pai, Satish Panchumarthy , Rajesh Prasad, Rajendra Pingte, Apparsamy Perumal, Srinivas Poovala, Mohammed Shahnawaz Quadri, Hanlin Qian, Gurumurthy Ramamurthy, Hema Ramamurthy, Sunil Ravindrachar, Mark Richwine, Dipak Saggi, Trivikrama Samudrala, David Price, David Schreiner, Ara Shakian, Mohit Singhal, Dharma Sirnapalli, Akshay Shah, James Spiller, Roy Swonger, Binoy Sukumaran, Kamal Tbeileh, Ravi Thammaiah, Shekhar Vaggu, Ramesh Chakravarthula, Ajesh Viswambharan, Peter Wahl, Robert Achacoso, 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 xiv 1 Oracle Database Installation Checklist Server Hardware Checklist for Oracle Database Installation 1-1 Operating System Checklist for Oracle Database on HP-UX Itanium 1-2 Server Configuration Checklist for Oracle Database Installation 1-2 Oracle User Environment Configuration Checklist for Oracle Database Installation 1-4 Storage Checklist for Oracle Database Installation 1-5 Installer Planning Checklist for Oracle Database 1-6 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 Configuring Operating Systems for Oracle Database on HP-UX Itanium Guidelines for HP-UX Itanium Operating System Installation 3-1 Reviewing Operating System and Software Upgrade Best Practices 3-2 General Upgrade Best Practices 3-2 New Server Operating System Upgrade Option 3-2 iii Oracle ASM Upgrade Notifications 3-3 Reviewing Operating System Security Common Practices 3-4 About Installation Fixup Scripts 3-4 About Operating System Requirements 3-5 Operating System Requirements for HP-UX Itanium Systems 3-5 Supported HP-UX Release on Itanium 3-6 Additional Drivers and Software Packages for HP-UX Itanium Systems 3-6 Installing Oracle Messaging Gateway 3-7 Installation Requirements for ODBC and LDAP 3-7 About ODBC Drivers and Oracle Database 3-8 Installing ODBC Drivers for HP-UX Itanium Systems 3-8 About LDAP and Oracle Plug-ins 3-8 Installing the LDAP Package 3-8 Installation Requirements for Programming Environments for HP-UX Itanium Systems 3-8 Installation Requirements for Web Browsers 3-10 Checking the Software Requirements on HP-UX Itanium 3-10 Confirming Host Name Resolution 3-11 Using Automatic SSH Configuration During Installation 3-11 4 Configuring Users, Groups and Environments for Oracle Grid Infrastructure and Oracle Database Required Operating System Groups and Users 4-1 Determining If an Oracle Inventory and Oracle Inventory Group Exist 4-2 Creating the Oracle Inventory Group If an Oracle Inventory Does Not Exist 4-3 About Oracle Installation Owner Accounts 4-3 Identifying an Oracle Software Owner User Account 4-3 Oracle Installations with Standard and Job Role Separation Groups and Users 4-4 About Oracle Installations with Job Role Separation 4-5 Standard Oracle Database Groups for Database Administrators 4-6 Extended Oracle Database Groups for Job Role Separation 4-6 Creating an ASMSNMP User 4-7 Oracle Automatic Storage Management Groups for Job Role Separation 4-7 Creating Operating System Privileges Groups 4-8 Creating the OSDBA for ASM Group 4-9 Creating the OSOPER for ASM Group 4-9 Creating the OSDBA Group for Database Installations 4-9 Creating an OSOPER Group for Database Installations 4-10 Creating the OSBACKUPDBA Group for Database Installations 4-10 Creating the OSDGDBA Group for Database Installations 4-10 iv Creating the OSKMDBA Group for Database Installations 4-10 Creating the OSRACDBA Group for Database Installations 4-11 Creating Operating System Oracle Installation User Accounts 4-11 Creating an Oracle Software Owner User 4-12 Environment Requirements for Oracle Software Owners 4-12 Procedure for Configuring Oracle Software Owner Environments 4-12 Modifying Oracle Owner User Groups 4-14 Creating the External Jobs User Account for HP-UX 4-15 Setting Remote Display and X11 Forwarding Configuration 4-15 Preventing Installation Errors Caused by Terminal Output Commands 4-16 Creating Oracle Database Vault User Accounts 4-17 Unsetting Oracle Installation Owner Environment Variables 4-17 5 Configuring Networks for Oracle Database About Oracle Database Network Configuration Options 5-1 About Assigning Global Database Names During Installation 5-2 Network Configuration for Computers Completed After Installation 5-3 Network Configuration for Multihome Computers 5-3 Setting the ORACLE_HOSTNAME Environment Variable 5-4 Network Configuration for Computers with Multiple Aliases 5-4 6 Supported Storage Options for Oracle Database and Oracle Grid Infrastructure Supported Storage Options for Oracle Database 6-1 About Oracle Grid Infrastructure for a Standalone Server 6-2 About Upgrading Existing Oracle Automatic Storage Management Instances 6-3 About Managing Disk Groups for Older Database Versions 6-4 File System Options for Oracle Database 6-4 Guidelines