Novell SENTINEL 6.1 SP2 - INSTALLATION GUIDE 02-2010 Installation Manual page 34

NOTE: If you are using an existing or manually created Oracle database instance, it must be
empty except for the Sentinel Database User for successful installation.
 Get the login credentials for the Oracle operating system user (default:
Get the login credentials for Oracle users

Ensure that the following environment variables are set for the Oracle operating system user:

 ORACLE_HOME
product/10gR2/db
 ORACLE_BASE
 PATH
Determine an appropriate Oracle listener port number (the default port number is 1521).

Create directories for the following storage locations:

 Data Directory
Index Directory

Summary Data Directory

 Summary Index Directory
Temp and Undo Directory

Redo Log Member A Directory

 Redo Log Member B Directory
Archive Directory

NOTE: The oracle user must have the write permissions for these directories. To provide write
permissions for these directories, execute the following commands for each directory as the
root
chown –R oracle:dba <directory_path>
chmod –R 770 <directory_path>
 After the Sentinel Database is installed on Oracle, the database contains the following users:
Database Users
Table 3-2
User
esecdba
34 Sentinel 6.1 Installation Guide
(for example,
)
(for example,
(must include
$ORACLE_HOME/bin
user:
Description
Database schema owner. The
DBA privilege is not granted to
the Sentinel Database User
because of security concerns.
To use Enterprise Manager,
you must create a user with
DBA privileges.
and .
SYSTEM SYS
might produce
echo $ORACLE_HOME
produces
echo $ORACLE_BASE
)
Server Roles
Serveradmin and
Sysadmin
).
oracle
/opt/oracle/
)
/opt/oracle
Need for the Role
esecdba needs
serveradmin and sysadmin,
because Sentinel Data
Manager needs the
privilege to use a built-in
SQL Server stored
procedure to write to the file
system.