Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Siebel System Requirements and Supported Platforms (v8.1,v8.0,v7.8,v7.7,v7.5,v7.0,v6.3,v6.2,v6.1,v6.0)

Hi Friends,

This is one very important ready reckoner page regarding the System Requirements & Supported Platforms for all the Siebel Versions released & supported so far.

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11886_01/srsphomepage.html

This is the best source to keep in touch for any updated System requirements & platforms.
Hope this helps everyone.

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Siebel Systems, Siebel CRM, Siebel System Requirements, Supported Platforms, Hardware, Software, Siebel SBA, Siebel SIA, Horizontal, Vertical, eAutomotive, OBIEE, Siebel Analytics, Siebel eBusiness and Industry Applications,MidMarket Edition, Universal Application Network (UAN), Siebel Retail Finance, Oracle Self-Service E-Billing, Oracle® Real-Time Decisions

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Oracle UPK Installation Failed - ORA-12640: Authentication adapter initialization failed

Hi Friends,

I was setting up Oracle User Productivity Kit (UPK) in Server only mode for setting up a dedicated documentation facility. This was my first hand setup experience with the UPK & so as i expected i landed up with few issues during installation.

While deploying the UPK server on a  local server, at the end of the installation, i received error:
ORA-12640: Authentication adapter initialization failed

I thought, there might be some issue due to the database. Went around searched & re-tried the installation, but it again failed due to the same error.

After further research, i found that this error is more related to the Oracle Client settings in sqlnet.ora

Below is the change i did in my sqlnet.ora file after which Oracle UPK Server Mode installation completed successfully: 
 
SQLNET.AUTHENTICATION_SERVICES = (NTS)
Changing this one to:
SQLNET.AUTHENTICATION_SERVICES = (NONE)

Keywords: Oracle UPK, Oracle User Productivity Kit, Oracle UPK Installation, ORA-12640, etc