Prerequisite Installation Procedure

Before performing either a new installation or an upgrade installation, do the following prerequisite procedure.

  1. Verify the following for the installation user account:
    • Full read/write permissions on server
    • That this account is the same one used to install all prerequisite software for the server
    Note: Administrator permission is required.
  2. Verify that the required software components have been installed.
    • Verify that the Oracle environment is set to the Dedicated Server configuration.
  3. Verify that a general database instance been created on the database server for the Application Server (new installation).
  4. Verify that the character encoding for the Database Server database instance is Unicode (AL32UTF8), and the national character encoding is UTF8 – Unicode 3.0 UTF-8 Universal character set CESU-8 compliant.
  5. Verify that the installer has access to the installation media for the Application Server.