Oracle8i Client Installation Guide Release 2 (8.1.6) for Windows A73019-01 |
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This chapter describes installation requirements.
Specific topics discussed are:
Oracle8i Client consists of the following installation types:
The system requirements for Administrator, Programmer, and Application User are described below. The requirements for Custom depend upon the components selected for installation.
See Also:
"Oracle8i Client Components" for a list of individual components installed with each installation type |
This table identifies mandatory individual component requirements that must be met before installation. See Appendix A, "Individual Components Available for Installation" for the installation types with which these components can be installed. Appropriate documentation for preinstallation procedures is also identified. This table does not include Oracle Enterprise Manager component preinstallation requirements. That information is described in "Oracle Enterprise Manager Requirements".
Product | Description | See Also... |
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Active Directory integration with Oracle8i |
The user performing the Oracle8i installation must perform pre-installation requirements for integration to be successful. |
Chapter 4 of the Oracle8i Client Administrator's Guide for Windows |
Oracle Advanced Security authentication |
You must satisfy specific hardware and software requirements to use authentication support with Oracle components. |
Chapter 1 of the Oracle Advanced Security Administrator's Guide |
Oracle AppWizard for Microsoft Visual C++ |
Install Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0 or 6.0 first. |
Chapter 1 of the Oracle AppWizard for Microsoft Visual C++ User's Guide |
Recovery Manager |
To back up to nondisk media, Recovery Manager requires a media management layer such as Legato Storage Manager. Legato Storage Manager requires the following system configuration: |
The first tier of Oracle Enterprise Manager (Oracle Enterprise Manager Client) is installable through the Administrator and Custom installation types described in Appendix A, "Individual Components Available for Installation".
The system requirements for the Administrator installation type were described earlier in "Oracle8i Client". In addition to those system requirements, review the following requirements before beginning installation of Oracle Enterprise Manager:
The Oracle Enterprise Manager Console, DBA Management Pack, separately licensable packs, Oracle Management Server, and repository must all be of the same release. For example, you cannot use a:
The following release 2.1 components must use a release 2.1 Oracle Management Server and repository:
If the existing Oracle Management Server and repository are of a previous release, then migrate or upgrade them to the most recent release. In the case of migrating or upgrading an Oracle Management Server and repository to release 2.1, ensure that all Oracle Enterprise Manager components to use with the repository are also release 2.1. For example, do not upgrade the Oracle Management Server and repository to release 2.1 if you are still using Diagnostics Pack release 2.0 or Change Management Pack release 2.0. If you upgrade your Oracle Management Server and repository to release 2.1 before obtaining the release 2.1 pack software, you cannot use the older pack components.
See Also:
Oracle Enterprise Manager Configuration Guide for more information on migrating and upgrading |
You can also run the Oracle Enterprise Manager Console from a Web browser. The following table describes the system requirements. See Appendix A, "Individual Components Available for Installation" for the installation types with which you can install Oracle Enterprise Manager Web Site.
Requirement | Description |
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Minimal Processor |
Pentium I 266 |
Recommended Processor |
Pentium II 300 |
Minimal RAM |
64 MB |
Recommended RAM |
128 MB |
Hard disk |
105 MB |
Web browser |
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Web server1 |
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Oracle Enterprise Manager Web Site provides a default Web server listener (Oracle Applications Listener release 4.0.8.1 for Windows NT). If this listener is installed, the Web site is automatically configured. You must manually start the listener (OracleHOME_NAMEAppServerListener) from the Windows NT Control Panel. See the Oracle Enterprise Manager Configuration Guide for more information. |
If upgrading an Oracle Enterprise Manager release 2.0 repository to release 2.1 or migrating a release 1.x repository to release 2.1, back up or export the existing repository before performing a repository upgrade or migration.
The table below lists the supported vendor for each networking protocol:
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