Wow ... many replies to what sounds like a simple question. You should look further ahead. Will this system ever run anything else? (ie: besides Oracle)
Marcy's point about the security patching is spot on. Keeping up with actual threats is tough enough, and if your organization is big enough then there will be perceived threats too. It's a pain. You don't need to minimize as much as you need to manage. If you can keep up with maint, there is little need to remove stuff. How many servers? Have you considered a shared copy of the op sys? (can of worms; should be a forked topic) I ask because with my own systems I've been sharing some packages for almost two decades. (The sharing methods vary.) Means that I can theoretically install or update something (even a shared op sys core) just one time. Right now you have only asked about the one box. Think outside that box. On Dec 15, 2011 10:40 PM, "CHAPLIN, JAMES (CTR)" <james.chap...@cbp.dhs.gov> wrote: > I got into a discussion with a co-worker over packages that are > installed on a zLinux oracle server. We are Running RHEL 5.7 at our > site, and are using Oracle 10g (about to go to 11g). I noticed that our > Oracle servers have an average of 1192 rpm packages installed and 91 > define system services compared to our other non-Oracle servers > (application, java, MQ & Websphere) having only 450 - 480 installed rpm > packages and 53 defined services. > > > > I am not an oracle expert. Can anyone point me to a list of required > software packages to be installed to support Oracle 10g? If you have any > suggestions or personal experiences with oracle and the zLinux base > platform, your comments are welcome. > > > > Another statement was "It does not matter what we have installed, as > long as Oracle is working", or don't touch unless it is broken. A sample > of the over 600 packages are httpd (apache) and eklogin. Others like > squid I believe is needed. I am just looking for a good baseline and > argument to clean up these servers from unneeded software. > > > > James Chaplin > > Systems Programmer, MVS, zVM & zLinux > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
