You must have an Oracle Database server installed and available before you install Spacewalk.

Only Oracle Database 11gR2, release 11.2.0.3 or later, is supported. Oracle Database 12c is not supported. To obtain the correct Oracle Database 11gR2 release, you must download the software from My Oracle Support (MOS) at https://support.oracle.com.

Documentation for Oracle database is available at https://www.oracle.com/pls/db112/homepage.

The database must be configured as follows:

To create the spacewalk user with a password of "password" using SQL, the following SQL*Plus commands can be used:

SQL> create user spacewalk identified by password;
SQL> grant connect,resource to spacewalk;
SQL> grant alter session, create synonym, create table, create trigger, create view to spacewalk; 
SQL> grant unlimited tablespace to spacewalk; 

To connect to an Oracle Database, Oracle Instant Client release 11.2.0.3 or later must be installed on the Spacewalk server. The Spacewalk server configuration fails if the Instant Client is missing. Oracle recommends that you install the latest 11gR2 release of the Instant Client. You can find out more about the Instant Client from:

https://www.oracle.com/database/technologies/instant-client.html

The following are the required packages:

Once you have installed the Oracle Instant Client, you must add the library path to ldconfig as follows:

# echo /usr/lib/oracle/11.2/client64/lib > /etc/ld.so.conf.d/oracle-instantclient11.2.conf 
# ldconfig