Component |
Platform Requirement |
---|---|
Supported Platforms |
Sun UltraTM 60 or Sun Blade comparable or better workstation or server |
Operating System |
SolarisTM 8 or SolarisTM 9 U6 or SolarisTM 10 on SPARC SolarisTM 9 or SolarisTM 10 on x86 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 or 3.0 Update 3 on x86 |
RAM |
1024 Mbytes of RAM for evaluation install 1.5 Gbytes of RAM for regular deployment on Sun Java System Web Server and BEA WebLogic Server 2.0 Gbytes of RAM for regular deployment on Sun Java System Application Server |
Disk Space |
1 Gbyte of disk space for Portal Server and associated applications |
Swap Space |
The swap space of the machine should be twice of its physical memory. For example, in case of a 2.0 Gbytes RAM, the swap space should be 4.0 Gbytes. |
The Sun Java Enterprise System 4 Directory Server installation fails on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 Update 2 leading to Portal Server installation failure.
The Portal Server software requires the following stack components:
Sun Java System Directory Server 5.2 P4
Sun Java System Access Manager 7 2005Q4 installed in legacy mode.
Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP5 or Sun Java System Application Server 8.1 (including the patches) or BEA WebLogic Server 8.1 SP4. Note that third party web container must be installed and running prior to installing the Portal Server software.
The sun-soarsdk rpm (registry server sdk rpm) is not relocatable; so, do not choose non-default locations for registry on Linux.
For detailed instructions for installing the stack components, see the Sun Java Enterprise System 2005Q4 Installation Reference.
This sections includes the following:
If the install system does not have direct connectivity to the internet, an HTTP proxy needs to be specified. For example, for Sun Java System Application Server, specify the following in the domain.xml file:
<jvm-options>-Dhttp.proxyHost=Proxy-Host</jvm-options> <jvm-options>-Dhttp.proxyPort=Proxy-Port</jvm-options> <jvm-options>-Dhttp.nonProxyHosts="PortalServer-Host"</jvm-options>
Here, Proxy-Host is the fully-qualified domain name of the proxy host, Proxy-Port is the port on which the proxy is run, and PortalServer-Host is the fully-qualified domain name of the Portal Server software host.
Execute the command prtconf | grep Memory to check RAM.
Use the command df -lk to see how much swap space your machine has. To temporarily increase your swap space by 4 Gbytes, you can use the following instructions:
> mkfile 4g /fourGigXtraSwap > swap -a /fourGigXtraSwap
Remove the link /usr/share/bdb/db.jar before installation, if it exists.
Check if a version of ant below 1.5.4 exists on the system by running the following command:
rpm -qa | grep ant
The ant version 1.5.2 interferes with portal configuration. If an earlier version of ant is found installed, remove it by running the following command:
rpm -e ant-1.5.2-23 ant-libs-1.5.2-23
If you are configuring the Sun Java System Application Server or BEA WebLogic Server for session failover (see Sun Java System Application Server Enterprise Edition 8.1 2005Q2 High Availability Administration Guide and Replication and Failover for Servlets and JSPs respectively), note that the Portal Server software must be installed on a non-default server. To install on a non-default server, see instructions below.