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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:

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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:

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On the Linux platform: /proc/vmstat, /proc/net/dev, free, /proc/cpuinfo, getconf
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On the Solaris platform: /usr/sbin/prtconf, mpstat, pagesize, psrinfo
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On the AIX platform: lsattr, lsdev, pagesize, bindprocessor, lsdev, oslevel
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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:

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On all platforms, when monitoring the Clusterware using the CRS agent:
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For running the Clusterware monitoring wizard: test, uname, ps, awk, {CRS_HOME}/bin/olsnodes
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For monitoring the Clusterware: {CRS_HOME}/bin/crs_stat (for versions 10gR1, 10gR2, 11gR1), ${CRS_HOME}/bin/crsctl (for versions 11gR2 and above), tail
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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:

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On the Linux platform: /proc/vmstat, /proc/net/dev, free, /proc/cpuinfo, getconf
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On the Solaris platform: /usr/sbin/prtconf, mpstat, pagesize, psrinfo
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On the AIX platform: lsattr, lsdev, pagesize, lsdev, bindprocessor, oslevel
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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

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On AIX, the user must be a member of the administrator group to be able to run the sar command.
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On Linux, the sysstat package must be installed to enable the user to get detailed disk I/O information.
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On Linux the /proc filesystem must be present.
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For connection using SSH, the sshd daemon must be installed and running.
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For connection using telnet, a telnet daemon must be installed and running.
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The UNIX user should have no special processing on log-on. In particular there must be no input required from the user, and nor should any special login banners be displayed.
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