Oracle server under RHEL 4

[Mark Waterhouse]

Paul

I completely agree. Almost all of my production server installs start with 
the bare minimum - in fact, I then remove more rpms (such as ppp etc.) that 
I dont want present in my base install.

Once it has been reduced the minimum, each type of service has a different 
base of additional rpms.
Now, today I dont manage any RHEL machines with Oracle 10g on it so the 
information below may not be completely accurate, but this is the excerpt 
from our RHEL3 kickstart installation file (see attached file).


We do additional removes and configuration changes in the post kickstart.

rpm -e Canna FreeWnn OpenIPMI OpenIPMI-libs apmd aspell-da aspell-de 
aspell-es aspell-fr aspell-it aspell-nl aspell-no aspell-pt aspell-sv bg5ps 
h2ps isdn4k-utils kon2 kon2-fonts minicom nhpf parted ppp rp-pppoe wvdial 
wireless-tools fonts-ISO8859-2 fonts-KOI8-R fonts-KOI8-R-100dpi fonts-hebrew 
jisksp14 jisksp16-1990 man-pages-cs man-pages-da man-pages-de man-pages-es 
man-pages-fr man-pages-it man-pages-ja man-pages-ko man-pages-pl 
man-pages-ru taipeifonts ttfonts-ja ttfonts-ko ttfonts-zh_CN ttfonts-zh_TW 
irda-utils NetworkManager pcmcia-cs rm -f /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia.rpmsave

and then do some additional settings - (see attached file).



As for point (4), I think that is a great idea. We are about to undergo a 
major change to our Oracle infrastructure and this information would be 
invaluable.

Best Regards
Mark Waterhouse
RHCE


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul B. Henson" <henson at acm.org>
To: <redhat-sysadmin-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 6:48 PM
Subject: Oracle server under RHEL 4


>
> We are deploying Oracle 10g, and I opened a support request with Oracle to
> try and clarify some of the RPM dependencies.
>
> Oracle support indicates they do not provide an explicit list of
> dependencies, and assume Oracle is being installed on top of a default RPM
> installation of Red Hat.
>
> Generally, for a server, I try to install the minimum number of packages
> required for the functionality necessary. I consider this good security
> practice and a basic system administrator task.
>
> Not only does Oracle not supply an explicit list of dependencies necessary
> for their software, they claim that the average system administrator does
> not want to secure their system via minimization, and prefers to work from
> a default RPM installation rather than a customized minimal install.
>
> I can't imagine running a production enterprise server with all the
> packages installed via the default RPM option, it includes everything but
> the kitchen sink 8-/.
>
> I'd like to see what the consensus is among Red Hat system administrators
> on package installation, I would greatly appreciate it if you could reply
> to the following questions:
>
>
> 1) In general, when deploying a Red Hat server, do you do a default 
> install
> including all RPMs, or do you do a custom install including only those 
> that
> you actually need for the server's purpose?
>
> 2) If you support Oracle software, in that specific case do you do a
> default install including all RPMs or a custom install?
>
> 3) If the answer to question 2 is a default install, would you prefer a
> custom install with a minimal number of packages if Oracle made it easier
> to know what the dependencies were?
>
> 4) If you have an active Oracle support contract, and prefer to install a
> minimal number of packages, would you be willing to open a support request
> referencing mine to help convince Oracle to provide a better list of
> dependencies?
>
>
> Thanks much...
>
>
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