Review the Oracle MICROS Enterprise Back Office Server Sizing Guide for the latest hardware specifications and recommendations. Determine the hardware requirements for your projected data and user load, and then map what applications and components can be comfortably hosted on each server in your deployment environment.
Review the Oracle MICROS Enterprise Back Office Release Notes for the latest operating system, database server, and software requirements.
Review the Oracle MICROS Enterprise Back Office Security Guide and, if you are installing Inventory Management, the Oracle MICROS Inventory Management Security Guide for detailed explanations regarding securing your system during and after installation.
Make sure the IceWarp Mail Server is set up and accessible on the network.
For each server in the environment:
Make sure the operating system accepts filenames and file paths longer than 260 characters.
Make sure you can ping all network adapters from other machines. Disconnect adapters that you cannot ping.
Synchronize all servers to the same time.
Install the required Java (Java Development Kit or Java Runtime Environment) version in a folder path that does not contain spaces, and then set the JAVA_HOME system environment variable to the correct folder path.
For example, do not install Java in the default Program Files path.
Verify that the 7001, 9704, and 9556 ports are not being used.
Obtain a Secure Socket Layer (SSL) certificate.
Set up or identify the published site URLs for the server to host Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition and the server to host the Reporting and Analytics web application. What are Published Site URLs? contains more information.
Disable tunnel adapters. Disabling Tunnel Adapters contains information and instructions for checking for and disabling the adapter.
For each server that will be running the installation wizard, make sure to free at least 65GB of storage in addition to the server hardware requirements for the installation files and for temporary files created by the installation wizard.
If you are performing an upgrade instead of a fresh installation, What do I do when Upgrading? contains a summary of upgrade information and instructions.