10.1 Required Postinstallation Tasks

Certain postinstallation tasks are critical for your newly installed software.

Note:

Backing up a voting file is no longer required.

• Download and Install Patch Updates
  On a regular basis Oracle provides patch sets that include generic and port specific fixes encountered by customers since the base product was released.
• Configure Exceptions for the Windows Firewall
  If the Windows Firewall feature is enabled on one or more of the nodes in your cluster, then virtually all transmission control protocol (TCP) network ports are blocked to incoming connections.