Supported Configurations

The following sections summarize the supported configurations for the Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper platform:

The following sections describe the base system requirements for Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper.

Overview of the Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper Base platform

Below is a summary of the operating systems and hardware platforms for Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper:

The next sections describe the configuration requirements for access tier, network tier and database tier servers. For a description of the different tiers, see the Deployment section of “Software Architecture Overview” in Concepts and Architectural Overview, another document in this set.

Common configuration requirements

All servers in the cluster building up Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper must be dedicated servers.

The directory in which the software is installed must reside on the server’s local file system.

HP-UX 11.23 on Intel Itanium2

Configuration requirements for Access tier servers

Table 3-1 Requirements for Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper access tier servers on HP-UX 11.23 on Intel Itanium2
Operating System Version and Patches	HP-UX 11.23 with HP-UX patches for Java^TM See http://www.hp.com/products1/unix/java/patches/index.html.
Chip Architecture and Minimum Processor Speed	Intel Itanium2 (1.5 GHz)
JDK	HP-UX JDK for the Java 2 Standard Edition platform version 6.0.01 with Java HotSpotTM Server VM (32-bit) and all later JDK 6.0.* service packs for development and production deployment on HP-UX
RAM	1 GB required; 2 GB recommended
Disk	2 x 36 GB
Network cards	2 x LAN interface card

Configuration requirements for Network tier servers

Table 3-2 Requirements for Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper network tier servers on HP-UX 11.23 on Intel Itanium2
Operating System Version and Patches	HP-UX 11.23 with HP-UX patches for Java^TM See http://www.hp.com/products1/unix/java/patches/index.html.
Chip Architecture and Minimum Processor Speed	Intel Itanium2 (1.5 GHz)
JDK	HP-UX JDK for the Java 2 Standard Edition platform version 6.0.01 with Java HotSpotTM Server VM (32-bit) and all later JDK 6.0.* service packs for development and production deployment on HP-UX
RAM	1 GB required; 2 GB recommended
Disk	2 x 36 GB
Network cards	2 x LAN interface card

Configuration requirements for Database tier servers

Table 3-3 Requirements for Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper database tier servers on HP-UX 11.23 on Intel Itanium2
Operating System Version and Patches	HP-UX 11.23
Chip Architecture and Minimum Processor Speed	Intel Itanium2 (1.5 GHz)
RAM	2 GB required; >6 GB recommended
Disk	2 x 36 GB
Network cards	2 x LAN interface card
RDBMS	See Supported databases
Database storage system	Network attached storage using fibre channel interface.

Linux Redhat AS4 on x86

Configuration requirements Access tier servers

Table 3-4 Requirements for Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper access tier servers on Linux Redhat AS4 on x86
Operating System Version and Patches	Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 2) Kernel version 2.6.9-22.Elsmp glibc-2.3.4-2.13 and later updates and errata levels
Chip Architecture and Minimum Processor Speed	Xeon or Opteron Class
JVM/32 bit	Sun: Version 1.6.0_05 and all later JDK 6.0.* versions and service packs JRockit: Version 1.6_05, build R27.6* and greater
JVM/x-86_64 bit	Sun: Version 1.6.0_05 and all later JDK 6.0.* versions and service packs JRockit: Version 1.6_05, build R27.6* and greater
RAM	1 GB required; 2 GB recommended
Disk	2 x 36 GB
Network cards	2 x LAN interface card

Configuration requirements for Network tier servers

Table 3-5 Requirements for Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper network tier servers on Linux Redhat AS4 on x86
Operating System Version and Patches	Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 2) Kernel version 2.6.9-22.Elsmp glibc-2.3.4-2.13 and later updates and errata levels
Chip Architecture and Minimum Processor Speed	Xeon or Opteron Class
JVM/32 bit	Sun: Version 1.6.0_05 and all later JDK 6.0.* versions and service packs JRockit: Version 1.6_05, build R27.6* and greater
JVM/x-86_64 bit	Sun: Version 1.6.0_05 and all later JDK 6.0.* versions and service packs JRockit: Version 1.6_05, build R27.6* and greater
RAM	1 GB required; 2 GB recommended
Disk	2 x 36 GB
Network cards	2 x LAN interface card

Configuration requirements for Database tier servers

Table 3-6 Requirements for Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper database tier servers on Linux Redhat AS4 on x86
Operating System Version and Patches	Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 2) Kernel version 2.6.9-22.Elsmp glibc-2.3.4-2.13 and later updates and errata levels
Chip Architecture and Minimum Processor Speed	Xeon or Opteron Class
RAM	2 GB required; >6GB recommended
Disk	2 x 36 GB
Network cards	2 x LAN interface card
RDBMS	See Supported databases
Database storage system	Network attached storage using fibre channel interface.

Solaris 9 or Solaris 10 on Sun UltraSPARC

Configuration requirements Access tier servers

Table 3-7 Requirements for Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper access tier servers on Solaris 9/10 on UltraSPARC
Operating System Version and Patches	Solaris 9/10
Chip Architecture and Minimum Processor Speed	UltraSPARC IIIi (1.5 Ghz)
JVM	Sun: Version 1.6.0_05 and all later JDK 6.0.* versions and service packs JRockit: Version 1.6_05, build R27.6* and greater
RAM	1 GB required; 2 GB recommended
Disk	2 x 35 GB
Network cards	2 x LAN interface card

Configuration requirements for Network tier servers

Table 3-8 Requirements for Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper network tier servers on Solaris 9/10 on UltraSPARC
Operating System Version and Patches	Solaris 9/10
Chip Architecture and Minimum Processor Speed	UltraSPARC IIIi (1.5 Ghz)
JVM	Sun: Version 1.6.0_05 and all later JDK 6.0.* versions and service packs JRockit: Version 1.6_05, build R27.6* and greater
RAM	1 GB required; 2 GB recommended
Disk	2 x 35 GB
Network cards	2 x LAN interface card

Configuration requirements for Database tier servers

Table 3-9 Requirements for Oracle Communications Services Gatekeeper database tier servers on Solaris 9/10 on UltraSPARC
Operating System Version and Patches	Solaris 9/10
Chip Architecture and Minimum Processor Speed	UltraSPARC IIIi (1.5 Ghz)
RAM	2 GB required; >6 GB recommended
Disk	2 x 36 GB
Network cards	2 x LAN interface card
RDBMS	See Supported databases
Database storage system	Network attached storage using fibre channel interface.

Supported databases

Load balancer and tier 3 switches

Firewall

Disc storage

While disc storage can be an ordinary disk system, for performance and high availability reasons, a RAID system should be used.

General characteristics

Java version	JRE 1.5, JDBC 3.0
Database	Oracle, Single Instance or RAC: Oracle 10g R1 (Oracle 10.1.0.4 and later patch sets of 10.1.x) Oracle 10g R2 (Oracle 10.2.0.1 and later patch sets of 10.2.x) MySQL, Single Instance: MySQL 5.0 MySQL 5.1
Parlay X	2.1, 3.0
SNMP version	v1, v2
SOAP version	1.1, 1.2
SOAP engine	WLS
CORBA version	CORBA 2.5
ORB	Orbacus 4.3
Rule engine	JRules 6.5.2

Oracle 10g RAC	Full DB Failover and Fault Tolerance
Oracle 10g Single Instance
MySQL 5.0 Single Instance
MySQL 5.1 Single Instance

Installation Guide

Supported Configurations