Preface

This guide describes security for an Oracle Exadata. It includes information about the components, the recommended password policies, and best practices for securing the Oracle Exadata environment.

Oracle Exadatas supported are Oracle Exadata and Oracle Zero Data Loss Recovery Appliance.

• Audience
  
• Documentation Accessibility
  
• Diversity and Inclusion
  
• Related Documents
  
• Conventions
  

Audience

This document is intended for database administrators and network administrators responsible for securing an Oracle Exadata.

Documentation Accessibility

For information about Oracle's commitment to accessibility, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program website at http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=docacc.

Access to Oracle Support

Oracle customer access to and use of Oracle support services will be pursuant to the terms and conditions specified in their Oracle order for the applicable services.

Diversity and Inclusion

Oracle is fully committed to diversity and inclusion. Oracle respects and values having a diverse workforce that increases thought leadership and innovation. As part of our initiative to build a more inclusive culture that positively impacts our employees, customers, and partners, we are working to remove insensitive terms from our products and documentation. We are also mindful of the necessity to maintain compatibility with our customers' existing technologies and the need to ensure continuity of service as Oracle's offerings and industry standards evolve. Because of these technical constraints, our effort to remove insensitive terms is ongoing and will take time and external cooperation.

Related Documents

For more information, see the following documents:

• Oracle Exadata Database Machine System Overview

• Oracle Exadata Database Machine Installation and Configuration Guide

• Oracle Exadata System Software User's Guide

• Oracle Database Security Guide

• Sun Datacenter InfiniBand Switch 36 Hardware Security Guide

• Oracle ILOM Security Guide For Firmware Releases 3.x and 4.x

• Oracle Server X8-2 Security Guide

• Oracle Server X7-2 Security Guide

• Oracle Server X6-2 Security Guide

• Oracle Server X5-2 Security Guide

• Sun Server X4-2 Security Guide

• Sun Server X3-2 Security Guide

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document:

Convention	Meaning
boldface	Boldface type indicates graphical user interface elements associated with an action, emphasis, or terms defined in text or the glossary.
italic	Italic type indicates book titles, emphasis, or placeholder variables for which you supply particular values.
monospace	Monospace type indicates commands within a paragraph, URLs, code in examples, text that appears on the screen, or text that you enter.
$ prompt	The dollar sign ($) prompt indicates a command run as the oracle user.
# prompt	The pound (#) prompt indicates a command that is run as the root user.