Pre-Upgrade Requirements

This section includes the following:

• Hardware and Operating System Requirements

• Software Requirements

Hardware and Operating System Requirements

The following hardware and software are required to upgrade from Portal Server 6 2005Q1 software on Solaris to this release.

Table 7–1 Hardware and Operating System Requirements for Upgrade

Component	Platform Requirements
Supported Platforms	Sun UltraTM 60, or Sun Blade, or better workstation or server
Operating System	Solaris 8 or Solaris 9 U6 or Solaris 10 on SPARC Solaris 9 or Solaris 10 on x86 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 or 3.0 Updated 3 on x86
RAM	1024 Mbytes of RAM for evaluation install  1.2 Gbytes of RAM for regular deployment on Sun Java System Web Server  2.0 Gbytes of RAM for regular deployment on Sun Java System Application ServerSun Java system Application Server
Disk space	1 Gbyte of disk space for Portal Server software and associated applications
Swap Space	The swap space of the machine should be twice the amount of physical memory. For example, if the machine has 2.0 Gbytes of RAM, the swap space should be 4.0 Gbytes.

Software Requirements

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Note –

The stack components must be upgraded to their respective Java Enterprise System 4 versions prior to executing the psupgrade script.

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The Portal Server software requires the following stack components:

• Sun Java System Directory Server 5.2 P4

• Sun Java System Access Manager 7 installed in legacy mode.

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  Apply the Access Manger 7.0 Patch 1 before or after the Portal Server Installation. Apply this patch for all web containers including BEA WebLogic, or IBM WebSphere. The patch number depends on the operating system.

  • For Sparc, use patch 120954-01

  • For Linux, use 120956-01

  • For x86, use 120955-01

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• Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP5 or Sun Java System Application Server 8.1 (including the patches).

The sun-soarsdk rpm (registry server SDK rpm) is not re-locatable; so, do not choose non-default locations for registry on Linux.

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Note –

Sun Java System Portal Server 7 software does not support Sun Java System Access Manager 7 installed in realm mode. Access Manager must be installed in legacy mode before installing Portal Server 7 software.

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Web Containers

Portal Server 7 software supports the following web containers:

Java Enterprise System Application Server 8.1

Java Enterprise System Web Server 6.1

BEA Weblogic Server 8.1 sp2

BEA Weblogic Server 8.1 sp4

IBM Websphere Server 5.1

Sun Java System Access Manager Software

Portal Server software can be upgraded on machines with:

Access Manager software previously installed and configured on the same physical machine using Java Enterprise System 3.

Access Manager software previously installed and configured on a separate machine using Java Enterprise System 3. The Java Enterprise System 3 Access Manager software SDK must be installed on the Portal Server software host.

Java Enterprise System 3 Access Manager software SDK installed on the machine were Portal Server Gateway is previously installed.