Data Loss Prevention

Hi, dear all.

Just tryed to install oracle and enforce server of Symantec DLP 12.5 on my RHEL 6.4 from ssh console (from putty) for testing.

But in file Symantec_DLP_12.5_Oracle_11g_Installation_Upgrade_Guide.pdf:

Installing the Oracle 11g software for Linux:

....

The instructions in this section assume that you are logged on locally to the Linux
server and running the X Window System. If you connect to the server remotely,
you need a terminal emulator. You also need to set the location where the GUI
tools can display their output; you use the export display command to do that. For
example:
export DISPLAY=ip_address:display_number

.....

So, to install Oracle for SDLP I need a RHEL with Desktop (gnome) and X Window System features?

Why it is not specified on System requirements for Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

I ask it because using GUI is not a best practices for Linux administrators.

Right, Symantec doesn't provide documentation on installing it without a GUI so there are two ways you can go about it (well, maybe 3).

1. Install with the GUI and just let it be.
2. Install with GUI then remove the X packages (look at the yum group options to remove the x-windows system)
3. Figure out how to do it from the CLI

Personally, I went with #3 and have scripted everything to install automatically. It's not difficult and the instructions are out there on the Oracle site. The basics of which are; find the response files (.rsp) and edit them to suite your environment then provide those files at install time. Downside to this is you will end up providing passwords in a clear text form on the system.

G'luck,
Aaron

While we assume that you have X on some system in our directions (usually on the admins local workstation, hense the display export), you can use the -slient switch on Oracle's installer however we do not provide a customized response file for said install. There are rsp files included with the install but you need to fill in variables such as the passwords, etc. We assume that users that know how to install with the rsp files have the requisite Oracle experience.

Day to day admin work on Oracle is typcially done with sqlplus which does not require X. For the upgrade cases we do provide a rsp file that allows for the -silent option.