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Database Requirements
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Although you should be generous in your database sizing estimates, you must consider that size
affects the time to conduct backups and adds load to other system resources. If the database is
shared, its hardware and spacing are entirely dependent on what else is using it.
Additionally, block sizes must be a minimum of 8 KB for RHN Satellite to install properly.
The Oracle database should have a user assigned to RHN Satellite with full DDL and DML access to
that user's default tablespace. The user needs standard connection information for the database at the
time of installation.
The precise access levels required by the Oracle user are as follows:
• ALTER SESSION
• CREATE SEQUENCE
• CREATE SYNONYM
• CREATE TABLE
• CREATE VIEW
• CREATE PROCEDURE
• CREATE TRIGGER
• CREATE TYPE
• CREATE SESSION
Additional database requirements include:
• Security Identifier (SID)
• Listener Port
• Username
• UTF-8 character set
Two additional
suggested
recommendation for user's default tablespace include:
• Uniform Extent Size
• Auto Segment Space Management
Note
Ensure that the NLS/charset setting is set to "UTF8"' when using an external database,
not 'AL32UTF8' or other charsets. Using other charsets may lead to problems later.
The disk layout on the database machine is independent of the RHN Satellite and entirely up to the
customer.