ObjectStore Installation and License for Solaris

Chapter 2

Hardware and Software Prerequisites

This module describes the minimum hardware and software requirements for installing ObjectStore C++ Release 5.1. It discusses the following topics:

System Requirements

ObjectStore C++ Release 5.1 supports Sun SPARC Solaris 2 computers running Solaris 2.5.1 and using the SPARCompiler C++ 4.2.

Disk Space

This section specifies disk space required for ObjectStore C++ Release 5.1.

ObjectStore C++ Release 5.1 software

To install ObjectStore C++ Release 5.1 successfully, you must have the following amount of disk space on your system in which to store the ObjectStore distribution. This space can be NFS-mounted.

40 MB of free disk space
100 MB of space for the on-line ObjectStore documentation

Active clients

To run ObjectStore C++ Release 5.1 successfully, your system must have the following amount of disk space:

8 MB of swap space for each client process on each computer that will run ObjectStore C++ Release 5.1 clients, in addition to existing swap space requirements.
16 MB of free disk space in /tmp/ostore, which is used to store ObjectStore C++ Release 5.1 client caches. These files can optionally be located in another directory; see OS_CACHE_DIR in ObjectStore Management.

Databases

In addition, you need sufficient disk space to store your ObjectStore databases. These databases must be stored on disk drives connected directly to the computers running ObjectStore Servers. Required.

.Required Permissions

You can install as root (requiring the password for the root user) or use the non-root installation option. See Configuring ObjectStore to Start Automatically for further implications of using the non-root installation option.

Installation on a mounted file system

To install ObjectStore C++ Release 5.1 on a mounted file system, the mount must be a trusted mount. There are two ways to achieve this:

Mount the file system with the -anon=0 option.
Enter the name of the mounted file system's host in the hosts.equiv file.

Accessing a mounted file system

If your computer will access the ObjectStore C++ Release 5.1 distribution using NFS, the file system containing the distribution must not be mounted with the nosuid attribute (because the Cache Manager is suid root, and cannot be on a file system mounted nosuid). You can confirm this by examining the /etc/vfstab file.

ObjectStore C++ Release 5.1 Distribution Media

The Solaris 2 distribution of ObjectStore C++ Release 5.1 is on CDROM and the default installation directory is /opt/ODI/ostore.

When you install as described in this book, the installation places as much as 40 MB of ObjectStore software in the default directory or the directory you specify.

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