This section covers OBI target environment requirements.

OS User Privileges

  1. The delphix_os user which is clone of oracle user with oinstall and dba groups.

  2. Empty folder on host to hold delphix toolkit [ approximate 2GB free space ]

  3. Empty folder on host to mount nfs filesystem. This is just and empty folder with no space requirements and act as base folder for nfs mounts.

  4. Write permissions on:

    • $ORACLE_BASE/admin

    • $ORACLE_BASE/diag

    • $ORACLE_HOME/dbs

  5. Read permissions on:

    • $ORACLE_HOME/inventory

    • $ORACLE_HOME/inventory/ContentsXML

    • $ORACLE_HOME/inventory/ContentsXML/comps.xml

  6. The sudo privileges for mount, umount. See sample below assuming delphix_os is used as delphix user.

    Example:

    Defaults:delphix_os !requiretty
    
    delphix_os ALL=NOPASSWD:  /bin/mount,/bin/umount,/bin/mkdir,/bin/rmdir,/bin/ps


  7. The sudo privileges for srvctl if provisioning RAC VDB. See sample below assuming delphix_os is used as delphix user.

    Example:

    Defaults:delphix_os !requiretty
    
    delphix_os ALL=NOPASSWD:  /bin/mount,/bin/umount,/bin/mkdir,/bin/rmdir,/bin/ps,/bin/su - oracle -c srvctl *
Last updated
Oct 9, 2026