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Foglight for Oracle (Cartridge) 5.9.7.24 - Release Notes

Hardware and software requirements

Before installing Foglight for Oracle, ensure that your system meets the hardware and software requirements detailed in Foglight System Requirements and Platform Support Guide.

Customers running large deployments (that is, with more than 20 agents) should consult the Foglight for Databases Deployment Guide.

UNIX server and programs

The following UNIX programs must be accessible to the user logged on to the UNIX and Linux computers:

On all platforms: df, du, awk, iostat, vmstat, uptime, netstat, sed, ps, uname, ls -l

In addition, the following platform-specific programs must be available:

On the Linux platform: /proc/vmstat, /proc/net/dev, free, /proc/cpuinfo, getconf
On the Solaris platform: /usr/sbin/prtconf, mpstat, pagesize, psrinfo
On the AIX platform: lsattr, lsdev, pagesize, bindprocessor, lsdev, oslevel
On the HP-UX specific platform: bdf (instead of df), sar, /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log, /usr/sbin/ioscan, getconf, /swapinfo, InfoLog (needs to be enabled)

Programs that should be configured to be run using sudo

The sudo utility allows system administrators to grant specific users (or groups of users) the ability to run certain commands that require administrative privileges as root, without having to log in as administrator.

The programs that can be run using sudo in the various Linux and UNIX operating systems are as follows:

For running the Clusterware monitoring wizard: test, uname, ps, awk, {CRS_HOME}/bin/olsnodes
For monitoring the Clusterware: {CRS_HOME}/bin/crs_stat (for versions 10gR1, 10gR2, 11gR1), ${CRS_HOME}/bin/crsctl (for versions 11gR2 and above), tail
On all platforms: df, du, awk, iostat, vmstat, uptime, netstat, sed, ps, uname, grep, ls -l

In addition, the following platform-specific programs must be available:

On the Linux platform: /proc/vmstat, /proc/net/dev, free, /proc/cpuinfo, getconf
On the Solaris platform: /usr/sbin/prtconf, mpstat, pagesize, psrinfo
On the AIX platform: lsattr, lsdev, pagesize, lsdev, bindprocessor, oslevel
On the HP-UX specific platform: bdf (instead of df), sar, /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log, /usr/sbin/ioscan, getconf, /swapinfo, InfoLog (needs to be enabled)

UNIX user permissions and installation settings

On Linux, the sysstat package must be installed to enable the user to get detailed disk I/O information.
On Linux the /proc filesystem must be present.
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