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Requirements

This chapter provides information about the hardware and software items required for the installation of the Oracle9i Application Server, Oracle Portal-to-Go client, and the online documentation.

Contents

• Hardware Requirements

• Software Requirements

• Certified Software

• Oracle Portal-to-Go Client Requirements

• Online Documentation Requirements

Hardware Requirements

The following are the hardware requirements for Oracle9i Application Server.

Hardware Items	Required
CPU	A SPARC Processor
Memory	128 MB
Disk Space	Oracle HTTP Serverr Only: 606 MB Standard Edition: 1.30 GB Enterprise Edition: 3.30 GB
Swap Space	500 MB

Note for Standard Edition: You will need an additional 425 MB disk space to install the Oracle 8i JVM database. The database files do not have to be installed on the same disk as the Oracle9i Application Server ORACLE_HOME.

Note for Oracle Web Cache (Enterprise Edition only): Memory for Oracle Web Cache should be based on the following formula: (average HTTP object size) * (maximum number of objects you want to cache). Thus, if you want to cache 100,000 objects and the average size of the objects is 3 KB, then set the maximum cache size to at least 3 GB.

Software Requirements

The following are the software requirements for Oracle9i Application Server.

Software Items

Version

Operating System

Solaris 2.6 Motif Runtime patch: 105284-20 or higher Kernel Jumbo patch: 105181-20 or higher Linker patch: 107733-06 or higher Libthread patch: 105568-16 or higher Libc patch: 105210-27 or higher XIM patch: 106040-13 or higher Solaris 2.7 Libthread patch: 106980-10 or higher Kernal cluster patch106541-09 or higher /kernal/fs/sockfs patch: 109104-01 or higher /usr/lib/fs/fsck patch: 107544-02 or higher Motif Runtime patch: 107081-19 or higher XIM patch: 107636-03 or higher OpenWindows patch: 108376-03 or higher

Certified Software

A complete list of certified software for Oracle9i Application Server can be found on OracleMetaLink, which can be accessed from the URL below:

http://metalink.oracle.com

Oracle Portal-to-Go Client Requirements

The following are the requirements for the installation of Oracle Portal-to-Go client. For information and installation instructions regarding Oracle Portal-to-Go client, refer to Appendix B, "Installing Oracle Portal-to-Go Client".

Hardware Items	Required
Operating System	Windows NT 4.0 (with Service Pack 4.0) or higher
CPU	Pentium 266
Memory	At least 64 MB RAM for running both the Oracle Portal-to-Go Service Designer and Portal-to-Go Web Integration Developer; at least 32 MB RAM for running the Portal-to-Go Service Designer.
Disk Space	40 MB for running both the Oracle Portal-to-Go Service Designer and Portal-to-Go Web Integration Developer; at least 20 MB for running the Portal-to-Go Service.
JDK 1.2.2	The client system requires JDK 1.2.2. You can install JDK 1.2.2 for Windows NT from the client CD-ROM. You should ensure that the JDK directory is the first entry in the system environment path.

Online Documentation Requirements

The following are the tools and disk space requirements for the installation of the Oracle9i Application Server online documentation. For information and installation instructions regarding the Oracle9i Application Server online documentation, refer to Appendix D, "Documentation Library Installation".

Requirement	Items
Online Readers	Requires any one of the following HTML Netscape Navigator 3.0 or higher Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 or higher PDF Acrobat Reader 3.0 or higher Acrobat Reader+Search 3.0 or higher Acrobat Exchange 3.0 or higher PDFViewer Web browser plug-in 1.0 or higher
Disk Space	185 MB