PTC provides these guidelines to assist you when installing the Oracle Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) software. In all cases, follow the instructions in the Oracle Database Installation Guide for detailed platform-specific instructions (user authentication, memory, process tuning, and so on).

The Oracle server can be installed either on the same machine as Windchill or on a remote machine. By default, when the server software is installed, Oracle also installs the client software on the same machine. If you install Windchill on a different machine than the Oracle server and if you plan to customize Windchill and generate Data Definition Language (DDL) scripts, then you must also install the Oracle client software on the same machine as the Windchill server. Also, if you install Windchill on a different machine than the Oracle server, you must run the PTC Solution Installer (PSI) on the Oracle server before installing your Windchill solution.

Included in this section are instructions for an Oracle server installation (on the Windchill server machine or on a remote machine), and an Oracle client-only installation for the Windchill server machine.

Oracle is delivered on the Oracle DVDs and it is installed using the Oracle Universal Installer. If you are using the PTC-bundled Pro/INTRALINK — Oracle, it is installed using the PTC Solution Installer (PSI).