Installation guide

Supported Installation Platforms for SGD

Operating System Supported Versions

Oracle Solaris on x86 platforms Solaris 10 8/11 (update 10)

Solaris 11

Solaris 108/11 (update 10) Trusted

Extensions

Solaris 11 Trusted Extensions

Oracle Linux (32-bit and 64-bit) 5.7

5.8

6.2

6.3

Oracle products certified on Oracle Linux are also certified and supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux due

to implicit compatibility between both distributions. Oracle does not run any additional testing on Red Hat

Enterprise Linux products.

2.1.2.1. Operating System Modifications

You might have to make some operating system modifications. Without these modifications, SGD might

not install properly or operate correctly.

2.1.2.1.1. Oracle Solaris

The following operating system modifications might be required for Oracle Solaris platforms:

• You must install at least the End User Oracle Solaris distribution to get the libraries required by SGD. If

you do not, SGD does not install.

• The TCP Fusion feature of Oracle Solaris can cause problems with some local socket connections used

by SGD. Disable the TCP Fusion feature before you install SGD, as follows:

1. Add the following line at the bottom of the /etc/system file.

set ip:do_tcp_fusion = 0x0

2. Reboot the server.

• On Oracle Solaris 11 platforms, SGD assigns administration privileges to the first entry in the /etc/

user_attr file which has the roles=root attribute. Ensure that you know the credentials for this

Oracle Solaris user.

After installation, the SGD Administrator can be configured using the following command:

# tarantella object edit --name "o=Tarantella System Objects/cn=Administrator" \

--user user-name --surname family-name

2.1.2.1.2. Oracle Linux

The following operating system modifications might be required for Oracle Linux platforms:

• The default /etc/hosts file for Oracle Linux contains a single entry, which incorrectly maps the host

name of the SGD host to the local loopback address, 127.0.0.1.