EBS R12 Installation on Oracle Enterprise Linux Release 5 – 64 bit

Objective

The purpose of this document to outline the steps required to be carried out to perform EBS R12.1 64 bit Installation on Oracle Enterprise Linux Release 5.

Hardware Requirements

At least 245GB hard disk space for VISION demo database

At least 4GB RAM

At least 8GB Swap Space

Kernel Setup/etc/sysctl.conf

vi /etc/ sysctl.conf

kernel.shmall = 2097152

kernel.shmmax = 4294967295

kernel.shmmni = 4096

kernel.sem = 256 32000 100 142

fs.file-max = 327679

net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 10000 65000

net.core.rmem_default=262144

net.core.rmem_max=262144

net.core.wmem_default=262144

net.core.wmem_max=4194304

Security Limits Setup in /etc/security/limits.conf

vi /etc/ security/limits.conf

* hardnofile 65535

* softnofile 4096

* hardnproc 16384

* softnproc 2047

Attempts and Timeouts Setup in /etc/resolv.conf

options attempts:5

options timeout:15

Verify the availability of following software

#which ar

#which gcc

#which g++

#which ld

#which ksh

#which make

#which X Display Server

Following packages must be available on OEL Release 5,

rpm -Uvh openmotif22-2.2.3-18.x86_64.rpm                                      installed now

xorg-x11-libs-compat-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.1.i386

compat-glibc-2.3.4-2.26

gcc-4.1.2-14.el5

gcc-c++-4.1.2-14.el5

glibc-2.5-12

glibc-common-2.5-12

glibc-devel-2.5-12

libgcc-4.1.2-14.el5

libstdc++-devel-4.1.2-14.el5

libstdc++-4.1.2-14.el5

make-3.81-1.1

gdbm-1.8.0-26.2.1

libXp-1.0.0-8.1.el5

libaio-0.3.106-3.2

libgomp-4.1.2-14.el5

sysstat-7.0.0-3.el5

compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-138

compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61

elfutils-libelf-devel-0.125

elfutils-libelf-devel-static-0.125

libaio-devel-0.3.106

unixODBC-2.2.11

unixODBC-devel-2.2.11

kernel-headers-2.6

Linking and Unlinking

Perform the following command (as root on your system) to update a required link to a Motif library prior to relinking or patching the 10.1.2 Application Server Oracle Home:

unlink /usr/lib/libXtst.so.6

ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/libXtst.so.6.1 /usr/lib/libXtst.so.6

Refreshing the settings

/sbin/sysctl –p

User, Group and Directory Setup

groupadddba

useradd –g dba –d /u1/oracle appltest

Rights Setup

mkdir /var/tmp/.oracle

chmod 777 /var/tmp/.oracle

Applying OS Patch 6078836

Copy libdb.so.2 file supplied with this package to /usr/lib/ directory