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To download content for each supported platform for patch deployment, the minimum recommended
storage is 810GB.
Supported Platform Minimum Storage Required
for Patch Content Files and Payload
AIX 130GB
HP-UX 15GB
Mac OSX 210GB
Red Hat 70GB
Solaris 325GB
SUSE 60GB
Table 2–1. Estimated Host Support for Patch Storage on Platforms
Prerequisite
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If you install the SCR Tool on a 64-bit Red Hat machine, verify that 64-bit Java is installed. If it is not
installed, you must install it.
Procedure
1. Select a 64-bit Red HatEnterprise Linux Server machine to use as the host machine for the SCR Tool.
2. Remove any non-Oracle Java versions.
3. Verify that the host machine has Internet access.
4. Verify that the host machine has adequate storage to download the patch content for each platform to
support patch deployment to all of the machines.
5. Verify that the host machine has Oracle Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 1.6 or later, 64-bit
only, installed.
6. Ensure that your JAVA_HOME and PATHenvironments are set to the correct Java instance.
For example:
export PATH=/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_
24/jre/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/jdk1.6.0_24/jre
7. Verify that the SCR Tool host machine has Oracle Java Cryptography Extension (JCE) Unlimited
Strength Jurisdiction Policy Files corresponding to the JRE version installed.
The JCE is required for the encryption of credentials to the OS vendor sites.
8. If you download Red Hat content, verify that the Red Hat Network (RHN) Management and Update
entitlements are available and associated with the credentials so that SCR can download the RHN
content.
9. Verify that the SCR Tool host machine has sufficient memory for the replicated files.
Linux files require up to 2GB of memory. All other machines require 1GB by default.
10. Allow additional memory for the overhead of host OS operations, which vary depending on your
environment.
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