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 Enterprise Back Office 9.1 Release Variations, determine which one is right for your environment and requirements, and then download the appropriate general release installation media.
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 that:
The operating system accepts filenames and file paths longer than 260 characters.
You can ping all network adapters from other machines. Disconnect adapters that you cannot ping.
All servers are synchronized to the same time.
You verify that ports 7001 and 9556 are not being used.
Obtain separate Secure Socket Layer (SSL) certificates for the Reporting and Analytics hostnames and create a Java keystore. See Appendix D of the Oracle MICROS Enterprise Back Office Security Guide for instructions. Confirm that the SSL certificate password as well as the keystore password only contain alphanumeric characters. Special characters, symbols, or spaces are not allowed for the password.
You 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 65 GB 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, How Do I Upgrade? contains a summary of upgrade information and instructions.