Computer Accessories User Manual

System Installation Requirements
Oracle9i Installation Planning 1-11
Operating System Software Requirements
Table 1–3 lists the operating system software requirements for Oracle9i products.
To determine your current operating system information, enter the following
command:
$ SHOW SYSTEM /NOPROCESS /FULL
To see information about all nodes in a cluster, add the /CLUSTER qualifier to the
above command.
To determine if your X-Windows system is working properly on your local system,
enter the following command:
$ RUN SYS$SYSTEM:DECW$CLOCK
Table 1–3 Operating System Software Requirements
Software Requirements
Operating System HP OpenVMS version 7.3
Oracle Net Requirements Oracle Net on HP OpenVMS is developed and certified using
Hewlett-Packard TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS (UCX). If
you wish to use the TCP/IP protocol adapter for Oracle Net,
then you should have Version 5.1 ECO 4 or higher of TCP/IP
Services for HP OpenVMS Alpha installed
. TCP/IP protocol
stacks from other vendors may work with Oracle, but
customers use these products at their own risk
. Any TCP/IP
problems that cannot be reproduced using TCP/IP Services for
HP OpenVMS Alpha will simply be referred to the TCP/IP
vendor.
Vendor-provided protocol services are usually upward
compatible, so that existing applications will continue to work
without modification
. Thus, later releases of TCP/IP are
upward compatible with Oracle Net, provided that the
vendor-specified Application Programming Interface (API)
does not change with new releases.
Window Manager X-Windows must be installed on the system from which the
Oracle Universal Installer is run. Use any
Hewlett-Packard-supported X-Windows server (for example,
Excursion, dtwm, twm, mwm) that supports Motif.