Oh, we can do better than that :-) On the assumption that you have a support contract, all you need is in this article: Note 1086769.1 -Ensure you have prerequisite rpms to install Oracle Database and AS10g(midtier) on IBM: Linux on System z (s390x)
This provides an rpm which consists only of prereqs, thus ensuring you have the packages needed for the appropriate product. Run both sets, and you're good for E-Business Suite also. It won't necessarily tell you what you have that's unnecessary, though. Cheers Damian -----Original Message----- From: Mauro Souza [mailto:thoriu...@gmail.com] Sent: 16 December 2011 10:56 To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu Subject: Re: Required packages on a zLinux server running Oracle vs "Put everything on" There's a RedBook (http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247634.html) for installing Oracle on System Z. It contains all the needed packages, so you could install just those packages. Having a lot of superfluous packages can slow your server down, use more memory and disk than it should, and create room for vulnerabilities (for instance on that Apache installed by default and never configured properly). Mauro http://mauro.limeiratem.com - registered Linux User: 294521 Scripture is both history, and a love letter from God. On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 1:43 AM, Marcy Cortes <marcy.d.cor...@wellsfargo.com > wrote: > The argument for not having them there is that you are subject to far less > security patching. > Now, some organizations don't seem to care about that. Some others care > more than one can ever imagine. > > > Marcy > > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu] On Behalf Of > CHAPLIN, JAMES (CTR) > Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 3:20 PM > To: LINUX-390@vm.marist.edu > Subject: [LINUX-390] Required packages on a zLinux server running Oracle > vs "Put everything on" > > 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/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
