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Installation Prerequisites

The Arcserve Backup Agent for Oracle is a client application that is installed on the Oracle server or to a local drive on each node of an Oracle Fail Safe Cluster. Before installing the agent, verify the following prerequisites:

• Your system meets the software requirements needed to install the agent.

  For a list of these requirements, see the Readme.

• You have the following applications installed and working properly:
  • The Arcserve Backup base product.

    Note: Arcserve Backup and the agent can be installed on different computers. For example, you can install Arcserve Backup on a local computer and the agent on a remote computer.

  • Windows operating system
  • Oracle Server
• If you do not use the default installation path, make a note of the installation path you use for easy reference, oracle instance name, dbusername and password for agent configuration.
• If you are installing the agent on nodes in an Oracle Fail Safe Cluster environment, make a note of the Oracle Fail Safe Cluster computer names and the Oracle Fail Safe Cluster login IDs and passwords.
• You have administrative privileges or the proper authority to install software on the computers where you will be installing the agent.

  Contact your Arcserve Backup administrator to obtain the proper privileges if you do not have them.

Note: You do not need to install the Arcserve Backup Agent for Open Files on the Oracle servers that you are protecting. The Agent for Open Files is beneficial when you want to protect files that are open or in use by active applications. Because the Agent for Oracle is an application-specific agent that is dedicated to protecting Oracle servers, it offers a complete solution that encompasses all the features offered by the Agent for Open Files.