I got into a discussion with a co-worker over packages that are installed on a zLinux oracle server. We are Running RHEL 5.7 at our site, and are using Oracle 10g (about to go to 11g). I noticed that our Oracle servers have an average of 1192 rpm packages installed and 91 define system services compared to our other non-Oracle servers (application, java, MQ & Websphere) having only 450 - 480 installed rpm packages and 53 defined services.
I am not an oracle expert. Can anyone point me to a list of required software packages to be installed to support Oracle 10g? If you have any suggestions or personal experiences with oracle and the zLinux base platform, your comments are welcome. Another statement was "It does not matter what we have installed, as long as Oracle is working", or don't touch unless it is broken. A sample of the over 600 packages are httpd (apache) and eklogin. Others like squid I believe is needed. I am just looking for a good baseline and argument to clean up these servers from unneeded software. James Chaplin Systems Programmer, MVS, zVM & zLinux ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
