Additional database installation requirements

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Provides additional information about configuring OS account's group for monitored DBMS

  • When using an external OS authentication on the database servers (for example, NIS), a user named mfedbs, a member of the DBA (or equivalent) group, must be added to the external authentication server before installation.

  • If the groups, used to manage the Oracle instance are not standard (dba, oinstall), you must add the newly created mfedbs user to the relevant groups (for example, usermod–G group1, group2).