Windows:

• Run EPM System Installer and EPM System Configurator as an administrator. Install and configure as an administrator for all Oracle Enterprise Performance Management System products.

• Assign local policies if required by your product. For Windows, the user ID typically requires "Act as part of the OS, Bypass Traverse Checking, Log on as a batch job, and Log-on as a service."

• The user installing EPM System must have full access to Drive:/Temp and Drive:/Windows/Temp.

• When you patch this server, use the same user account that was used to install and configure the earlier release.

Linux

• Prepare a user account (not the root user). Install and configure as the same user for all EPM System products. On Linux machines, for all Oracle products, the user that is installing must be part of the same group; the group must have write permission to the central inventory (oraInventory).

• If you have installed any other Oracle products, the user who will be installing EPM System products must be in the same group as the user who installed the other Oracle products. For example, both users must be part of oinstall.

The account password used for installation and configuration must adhere to the following guidelines:

• Contain at least one uppercase letter

• Contain at least one numeral

• Be at least eight characters long

• Contain any of the following special characters:

  Table 5-1 Supported Special Characters

  Character	Name or Meaning
  @	at
  !	exclamation
  &	ampersand
  #	pound
  -	hyphen
  $	dollar
  _	underscore