2 Requirements

Before installing Oracle Web Services Manager, ensure that your computer meets the requirements described in this chapter.

• System Requirements

• Globalization and Fonts

• Ports

• Install User

• Environment Variables

2.1 System Requirements

Before you install Oracle Web Services Manager, ensure that the host machine meets the requirements listed in Table 2-1:

Oracle Web Services Manager requires the following software:

Table 2-1 System Requirements

Item	Requirement
Operating system	Linux: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES 3.0 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES 4.0 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 Windows: Microsoft Windows 2000 with Service Pack 3 or above Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (32-bit) with Service Pack 1 or above Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Microsoft Windows XP Professional with service Pack 2 or above
Hostname	Ensure that your hostnames are not longer than 255 characters.
Processor Speed	Minimum: 300 MHz Intel Pentium processor. Recommended: 1 GHz.
Memory	At least 512 MB
Hard Disk	At least 512 MB of free space
File system type	On Windows, NTFS is recommended over FAT32 or FAT file system types because NTFS includes security features such as enforcing permission restrictions on files.
Monitor	256 color display
Supported browsers	Oracle WSM supports the following browsers: Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 SP2 (supported on Microsoft Windows only) Netscape 7.2 Mozilla 1.7 Safari 1.2, 2.0 (on Apple Macintosh computers) Firefox 1.0.4. You can download Firefox from http://www.mozilla.org.

2.2 Globalization and Fonts

To use Oracle WSM with languages other than English on a Windows system, you must have the Unicode fonts. Place the ARIALUNI.TTF font file in the Fonts folder on all Windows systems where users plan to use Oracle WSM. On current Windows systems, that folder is C:\WINDOWS\Fonts.

2.3 Ports

The following table lists the default ports used by Oracle WSM These ports must be available on all the machines that host Oracle WSM components:

Table 2-2 Oracle WSM Default Port Usage

Port	Installation Type	Description
1531	Basic	Embedded Oracle Lite database port
3115	Basic	Embedded OC4J HTTP request port
3118	Advanced and Basic	RMI registry port
3121	Basic	Administration port for the bundled version of OC4J
3122	Basic	The JMS port
3123	Basic	The SSL JMS port

You can change the default ports that Oracle WSM uses by changing the port setting values in Oracle WSM configuration files. If you change a port number, make sure to change it in the configuration file associated with every component instance affected by the change.

See Also: Oracle Web Services Manager Deployment Guide for more information about ports.

To check if a port is being used, you can run the netstat command on Windows or Linux.

On Windows

Type:

C:\> netstat -an | find "portnum"

Note that you need double-quotes around the port number.

On Linux

Type:

$ netstat -an | grep portnum

2.4 Install User

For a basic installation on Windows, the account used during installation must have permission to install a service on the host machine. For an Advanced installation on either Windows or Linux, the installation user must be the same user who installed Oracle Application Server.

2.5 Environment Variables

The operating system user who will be installing Oracle Web Services Manager needs to set (or unset) the following environment variables.

Table 2-3 Environment Variable Summary

Environment variable	Set or Unset
ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_SID	Must not be set.
PATH	Must not be longer than 1023 characters.
TNS_ADMIN	Must not be set.
TEMP (on Windows)	Optional. If unset, defaults to C:\temp.

On Linux, verify that the PATH variable includes the directories that contain chmod and uname.