4.1 Installer and Installation Prerequisites

The following mentions the list of prerequisites required before beginning the installation for OFS Sanctions pack. The Installer/ Environment Check Utility notifies you if any requirements are not met.

Table 4-1 Prerequisite Information

Category Sub-Category Expected Value
Environment Settings Java Settings
  • PATH in.profile to be set to include the Java Runtime Environment absolute path. The path should include java version (java 7 or java 8) based on the configuration.
  • Ensure the absolute path to JRE/bin is set at the beginning of PATH variable.
  • For example, PATH=/usr/java/jre1.7/bin:$ORACLE_HOME/ bin:$PATH

Ensure no SYMBOLIC links to JAVA installation is being set in the PATH variable.
Enable unlimited cryptographic policy for Java
Oracle Database Settings Oracle Database Server
  • TNS_ADMIN to be set in.profile pointing to appropriate tnsnames.ora file
  • Enable Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) and/ or Data Redaction.

Note: For more information, see Configuring Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) and, Data Redaction in OFSAA.

OFSAA Processing Server

  • ORACLE_HOME must be set in .profile file pointing to appropriate Oracle DB Client installation.
  • PATH in .profile must be set to include appropriate

$ORACLE_HOME/bin path.

  • Ensure that an entry (with SID/ SERVICE NAME) is added in the tnsnames.ora file.
Oracle Essbase Settings
  • ARBORPATH, ESSBASEPATH, HYPERION_HOME to be set in the .profile pointing to an appropriate Oracle Essbase Client installation.

These settings are required only if you want to use Oracle Hyperion Essbase OLAP features.
OS/ File System Settings File Descriptor Settings
  • Greater than 15000

Note:

The value specified here is the minimum value to be set for the Installation process to go forward. For other modules, this value may depend on the available resources and the number of processes executed in parallel.
Total Number of Process Settings
  • Greater than 4096

Note:

The value specified here is the minimum value to be set for the Installation process to go forward. For other modules, this value may depend on the available resources and the number of processes executed in parallel.
Port Settings
  • Default port numbers to be enabled on the system are 6500, 6501, 6505, 6507, 6509, 6510, 6666, 9999, and 10101.

.profile

permissions
  • User to have 755 permission on the.profile file.
Installation Directory
  • A directory where the product files will be installed.
  • Set 755 permission on this directory.
  • This directory needs to be set as FIC_HOME.
Staging Area/ Metadata Repository
  • A directory to hold the application metadata artifacts and additionally act as staging area for flat files.
  • The directory should exist on the same system as the OFSAA Installation. This directory can be configured on different mount or under a different user profile. However, the owner of the installation directory mentioned above should have RWX permissions on this folder.
  • Set 775 permission on this directory.

Note: This directory is also referred as FTPSHARE folder.

Temporary Directory Default temporary directory where installation files are stored for a short period of time to support faster installation.
  • For installation on UNIX OS, your UNIX
administrator must give you the required read-write permissions for the /tmp directory and disable the NOEXEC option
  • Configure adequate space on the /tmp directory.

It is recommended that you allocate more than 10 GB of space.

Note: If NOEXEC is enabled, the extraction of files by the installer into the /tmp directory is prevented and the binaries will not execute in the directory, which will fail the installation.

Download Directory
  • A directory where the product installer files will be downloaded/ copied.
  • Set 755 permission on this directory.
Database Settings Database Instance Settings
  • NLS_CHARACTERSET to be AL32UTF8
  • NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS to be BYTE
  • OPEN CURSORS limit to be greater than 1000
Web Application Server WebLogic
  • Web Application Server should be installed and profile / domain created.
  • You will be prompted to enter the WebLogic Domain path during OFSAAI installation.
  • Note: Refer Configuring Web Server for WebLogic Domain Creation.
Web Server

Apache HTTP Server/ Oracle HTTP Server/

IBM HTTP Server

.

This is an optional requirement. HTTP Server Installation to be present. You will be required to enter the Web Server IP/Hostname and Port details during installation.

Note: Refer Configuring Web Server for Web Server installation.

Others Oracle R/ Oracle R Enterprise
  • This is an optional requirement.
  • Refer section for more details.
OFSAAI One-off patch Install the mandatory one-off patch for 8.0.7.0.2 (29024022). This is applicable for Standalone and Upgrade installations from http:// support.oracle.com/.

Note:

Ensure that the tablespace (s) used for the database user (s) is set to AUTOEXTEND ON.