How To Install Telnet On Exadata?

Telnet is not pre-configured on DB server or Cell server in Exadata Machine. If we required than we can install it separately using Linux rpm.

Telnet is used to check whether particular port is open or not. You can follow below steps to install telnet utility on Database machine.

Step 1: Download required telnet rpm from Linux rpm repository 

RPM : telnet-0.17-39.el5.x86_64.rpm  
RPM Repository URL :  http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo

Note: RPM version can be different as per OS

Step 2: Move rpm to database server

Step 3: Install rpm

[root@db01 ~]# rpm -ivh telnet-0.17-39.el5.x86_64.rpm
Preparing...  ################################### [100%]
   1:telnet    ################################### [100%]

Step 4: Test the telnet utility 

[root@db01 ~]# telnet db02 1521
Trying 192.168.10.12...
Connected to db01.
Escape character is '^]'.