For the Oracle installation procedure, see the Oracle documentation. This subsection explains the issues you need to be aware of when installing Oracle.

• When installing Oracle on the local disk, use the same values for the following settings in the primary system and the secondary system:
  
  • Oracle user's user name (normally oracle), user ID, group name, and group ID
  • Oracle home directory
• When installing Oracle on a shared disk, use the same values for the following settings in the host used for installation and for all hosts not used for installation:
  
  • Oracle user's user name (normally oracle), user ID, group name, and group ID
  • OS settings such as kernel parameters
• If you want to create a database during installation, see 3.2.5(1) Building a database before you start the installation process.
• If you want to use Oracle Enterprise Manager Database Control in a hot-standby environment (cluster environment), you must to be aware of certain issues. For details, see the Oracle documentation.
• The method of authenticating connection to the Oracle user database must be the OS authentication method. For details about OS authentication, see the Oracle documentation.
• Oracle users must have sysdba privileges. Therefore, assign sysdba privileges to all Oracle users.