First time DB install !Help! -- I'm so new it's sickening

Hi,

     The deal is simple. Aside from the fact that I knew the name, until this week I knew nothing of Oracle. This week, at my bosses behest I installed Oracle for the first time in my life. (My boss by the way, does know quite a bit about Oracle.)

     I'm installing the 9i release 2 database (I hope I said that right, I know it's 9.2.0 or something like that) on to a Red Hat Linux box. Here's the deal. After reading the installation guide. Well, ok, I didn't exactly read all 252 pages of it, but I read the through the requirements, adjusted my shared memory settings, IP settings and so forth as stated in the manual (and setup the scripts to adjust those settings on bootup), I installed Oracle.

     The install appears to be fine. However, I'm to a point where I'm installing the Oracle Management Server, and it's asking me for a username/password combination as well as service. I didn't set up (chose to defer until later) the Oracle Net Server. In this senario, the install program says to input service as <host>:<port>:<sid>. I've done this, and that's fine. However, I can't figure out what username/password to use.

     I tried the oracle user combination, but that didn't work. Said it was invalid. Just prior to getting to this window I had to give passwords to two users called SYS and SYSTEM. I've tried both of them, but it doesn't like them either. When I use the SYSTEM account I get invalid username/password. When I use SYS, it says that SYS should be specified as sysdba or sysoper. I then try sysdba or sysoper to no avail either.

     Is there a built in account that Oracle is expecting for this purpose? What is it? Does anyone have any ideas? By the way, I've tried to find the answer in the Installation Guide, but haven't found it yet.

Thanks for any help,
Andy Received on Fri Jun 21 2002 - 10:08:19 CDT