Using This Document with the Certification Matrix and Product Installation Guides

This document is intended for use in conjunction with the various Oracle Fusion Middleware product installation guides and the Oracle Fusion Middleware 12c Release 1 Certifications.

Consider the following pre-installation workflow:

Task 1   Find Out What is Certified

The Oracle Fusion Middleware 12c Release 1 Certifications can be found in the table on the Oracle Fusion Middleware Supported System Configurations page. Find the .xls document that includes your products.

Oracle has tested and verified the performance of your product on all certified systems and environments; whenever new certifications occur, they are added to the proper certification document right away. New certifications can occur at any time, and for this reason the certification documents are kept outside of the documentation libraries and are available on Oracle Technology Network.

If you use My Oracle Support, you can reference My Oracle Support Certifications, which is a self-service certification application which provides a structured display of most common certification data. Go to

http://support.oracle.com/

and refer to the Certifications tab.

Task 2   Verify the Requirements of the Certification

This document should be used to verify that the requirements of the certification are met. For example, if the certification document indicates that your product is certified for installation on 32-Bit Oracle Linux 5, this document should be used to verify that your Oracle Linux 5 system has met the required minimum specifications, like disk space, available memory, specific platform packages and patches, and other operating system-specific items. This document is updated as needed and therefore also resides outside of the documentation libraries and is available on Oracle Technology Network.

Task 3   Install Your Software

After you have verified that your environment meets the requirements specified in both the certification documents and system requirements, you are ready to begin your installation.

Your product installation guides contain the step-by-step instructions to get your product physically installed and configured on your system. These guides are available only from the documentation library (http://docs.oracle.com/) and therefore are not updated unless there is a subsequent product release. Both the certification and system requirement documents can be updated multiple times in between product releases, depending on whether or not new information is available.