Owner's Manual

Contents 3
Contents
1Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Required Documentation for Deploying the
Dell|Oracle 11g R2 Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Terminology Used in This Document
. . . . . . . . . . . 8
Getting Help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Dell Support
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Oracle Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2 Configuring Your Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Configuring the Public Network. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Configuring the Private Network Using Bonding
. . . . 10
Setting Up User Equivalence
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Configuring ssh
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
IP Address and Name Resolution Requirements
. . . . 12
For a Cluster Using GNS
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
For a Cluster Using DNS
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Enabling IPMI
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Prerequisites for Enabling IPMI
. . . . . . . . . . 17
Configuring the Open IPMI Driver . . . . . . . . . 17
Configuring BMC Using IPMItool
. . . . . . . . . . 18
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