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Space Manager with LiveReorg 8.4.1 - Release Notes

System Requirements

Before installing Space Manager and Capacity Manager, ensure that your system meets the following minimum hardware and software requirements.

Requirements for the Client Computer

The Space Manager and Capacity Manager clients must be installed on the same computer, and their requirements are the same unless otherwise specified. The computer must meet the following requirements:

Item Requirement
Oracle® Client

Supported by both Space Manager and Capacity Manager:

  • Oracle Net version 9.2, 10g, 11g, 12c

Note: The bitness (architecture) of the Oracle client must match the bitness of the Space Manager application.

Operating System

Supported by both Space Manager and Capacity Manager:

  • Windows Vista® (FDCC compliant)
  • Windows® 7
  • Windows Server® 2008
  • Citrix® Metaframe XP
  • Windows® 8
  • Windows Server® 2012
Processor 1 GHz Processor (recommended minimum)
Memory 2 GB of RAM
Display Settings A resolution of 1024 x 768; true color or high color; small fonts
Disk Space

Space Manager: Approximately 800 MB

Capacity Manager: Approximately 13 MB

.NET Framework

Microsoft® .NET Framework 4 (including update 4.0.3)

Note: The .NET Framework 4 Full Profile is required. The Client Profile is not sufficient.

Requirements for Databases

Each database being managed with Space Manager must meet the following requirements:

Item Requirement
Oracle Database

Supported by both Capacity and Space Manager:

  • Oracle 9.2
  • Oracle 10.2
  • Oracle 11g
  • Oracle 11g R2
  • Oracle 12.1.0.2.0

Note: Space Manager supports Oracle Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition databases.

Database Server Operating System

Space Manager supports the following operating systems:

  • HP-UX 11 and 11i on PA_RISC
  • HP-UX 11i on Itanium
  • Sun Solaris 2.8, 2.9, 10, and 11
  • IBM® AIX 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, and 7.1
  • Red Hat® Linux Advanced Server 3.0, 4.0, 5.1, 5.5, 6.1, and 6.4
  • Oracle® Linux® 4, 5, and 6
  • Oracle Linux 5 with Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel
  • SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9, 10, and 11 SP2
  • Windows Server 2008
  • Windows Server 2012

Note: When using Oracle 11.1 or earlier on 64-bit systems, the installing user must be configured to use the Oracle 32-bit client libraries. For Oracle 11.2 or later on 64-bit systems, the installing user can use the Oracle 64-bit client libraries.

Disk Space

Disk-space requirements are:

  • 80 MB for statistics tables
  • 20 MB for scripts tables
  • 20 MB contiguous free space for LiveReorg objects in the LiveReorg tablespace (set with QSA’s LW_TABLESPACE parameter)
  • 40 MB in the filesystem for QSA executables and logs
Oracle Packages

Space Manager: DBMS_SQL, DBMS_PIPE, DBMS_LOCK, DBMS_SPACE_ADMIN

QSA: DBMS_SQL, DBMS_PIPE, DBMS_OUTPUT, DBMS_APPLICATION_INFO

Find Long LONGs feature: UTL_RAW

Email notifications: UTL_SMTP

Oracle's Partitioning Option

Required for the Online Switch (a feature available for live reorganizations) and the Partitioning Wizard; Partitioning Option must be installed and licensed.

XDB Schema

Required for XMLType datatypes.

Requirements for the Capacity Manager Repository

Note: Capacity Manager is not available in a 64-bit version at this time and is not included in the 64-bit installer.

The database used for the Capacity Manager repository must meet the following requirements:

Item Requirement
Oracle Database

Supported for the repository:

  • Oracle 9.2
  • Oracle 10.2
  • Oracle 11g
  • Oracle 11g R2
  • Oracle 12.1.0.2.0
Disk Space

8 MB recommended per monitored database assigned to a repository (accommodates one year of growth in repository objects)

Job Scheduler

One of the following schedules is needed for snapshot jobs, report scheduling, and Windows scheduling:

  • Oracle DBMS_JOBs is used for scheduling snapshot jobs on Oracle8i and Oracle9i.
  • Oracle DBMS_SCHEDULER is used for scheduling snapshot jobs on Oracle10g.
  • A third-party job scheduler can be used instead of an Oracle DBMS package.
Oracle Initialization Parameters

Oracle initialization parameters should be set as follows:

  • OPEN_LINKS—The value for OPEN_LINKS initialization parameter should be equal to or greater than the number of monitored databases assigned to a repository. The default value for this parameter is 4; the maximum is 255.
  • JOB_QUEUE_PROCESSES—The value for the JOB_QUEUE_PROCESSES initialization parameter should be greater than zero in Oracle 9.2 databases. For optimal performance of snapshot jobs, it should be equal to or greater than the number of monitored databases assigned to a repository. The maximum is 1,000.
Character Set

Must be a superset of the character sets for all monitored databases. A UTF8 character set is recommended.

Activity Level

Light activity level.

 

Product Licensing

To activate a trial license

  1. In the License Key dialog, enter your Authorization Key.

  2. Enter the Site Message included with your Authorization Key.

To activate a purchased commercial license

  1. In the License Key dialog, enter your Authorization Key.

  2. Enter the Site Message included with your Authorization Key.

Getting Started

Contents of the Release Package

Space Manager with LiveReorg 8.4.1 and Capacity Manager for Oracle 1.4 include the following documentation:

  • Space Manager online help and user guide

  • Capacity Manager online help

Note: The Installation Guide and Release Notes are not included in the setup executable and need to be downloaded separately. These documents are also available from the Quest Software Support Portal.

Installation Instructions

The clients for Space Manager with LiveReorg 8.4.1 and Capacity Manager for Oracle 1.4 can be installed together using the Installer.

Note: Capacity Manager is not available in a 64-bit version at this time and is not included in the 64-bit installer.

The installer is identified as the Space Manager with LiveReorg 8.4.1 Installer. The executable for the installer is available at our Support Portal at https://support.quest.com/ and on the installation CD for Space Manager with LiveReorg.

After installing the Space Manager client, you install server components and the QSA Server Agent. Each database you plan to manage with Space Manager must have server components and an agent. Job scheduling and LiveReorg require an agent. After installing the Capacity Manager client, you install the repository and assign monitored databases to the repository. Each database you plan to manage with Capacity Manager must be assigned to the repository.

QSA Server Agent version 8.4.1 is included in this release of Space Manager with LiveReorg 8.4.1.

Refer to the Space Manager with LiveReorg Installation Guide for more information about installing Space Manager.

Upgrade and Compatibility

After you upgrade the Space Manager client, when you connect to a database with Space Manager server objects already installed, you are prompted to upgrade server components and the QSA Server Agent.

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