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CiscoSecure ACS 2.3 for UNIX User Guide

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Oracle Information Required During CiscoSecure Installation

Setting Up an Oracle Database for CiscoSecure

• CiscoSecure ACS requires an Oracle user database account setup prior to the CiscoSecure

installation:

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This user account must have a privilege to create/drop tables. (Connect and Resource privilege).

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This user account should also have Select privilege on two of Oracle’s system views:

sys.dba_free_space and sys.dba_users.

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The Oracle tablespace where the account belongs should have at least 200 MB of data space,

100 MB of rollback tablespace, and 50 MB of temporary tablespace available.

Oracle Information Required During CiscoSecure Installation

CiscoSecure ACS installation prompts require the following information concerning your Oracle

installation:

• TNS name—Name for the Oracle server. It should be defined in Oracle’s tnsnames.ora file.

• Oracle user—Database account (not Solaris account) which has Resource privilege.

• Oracle user’s password.

• Oracle home—Absolute pathname of the directory where the Oracle product is installed. This

should be the same as the ORACLE_HOME environment variable that is defined when Oracle is

installed. Do not confuse this directory with the home directory of the Solaris user account for

Oracle, such as /home/oracle.

• Connections—Specifies how many connections CiscoSecure ACS can make to the Oracle server.

CiscoSecure ACS will make that number of connections when it starts up.

Oracle Database Replication Setup Following CiscoSecure Installation

If you want to set up database replication among multiple CiscoSecure ACS sites, assign your Oracle

database administrator (DBA) to do so after CiscoSecure installation is complete. See the

CiscoSecure ACS 2.3 for UNIX User Guide chapter “Setting up Database Replication among

CiscoSecure ACSes” for details.

Caution Database replication setup requires database administrator (DBA) expertise. If you do not possess DBA

experience, assign this task to someone who does.

Note If you are installing and supporting the per user, per group, and per VPDN session limitation features of

the optional CiscoSecure Distributed Session Manager feature, you must configure your Oracle

databases for database replication.