Installation Requirements

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Note - See the Release Notes for definitive compatibility information, hardware and software requirements, and other important information that was not available when this book was published.

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This checklist is provided to help you gather information you must have to complete the installation procedures. You must be able to answer yes or fill in the appropriate information on the lines provided. If you have problems with your installation, you will need this information when you call for help.

1. Is the machine that you are installing Site/SunNet/Domain Manager 2.3 TM software on a Sun SPARC machine?

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2. Does your machine have at least 32 Mbytes of memory?..____________

3. Is your machine running Solaris 2.4 or later system software?____________

4. Is your machine running OpenWindows 3.3 or later software?____________

5. The installation medium is a CD-ROM.

• Do you have access to a local or remote CD-ROM drive? ____________

  (The remote drive can be attached to a SunOS 4.1.x machine.)

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Note - Throughout this book, /opt is referenced. /opt is the default installation directory for the product. If the product is going to be installed in a directory other than /opt, all references should be changed accordingly.

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7. Use the following command to check for disk space usage:

hostname% df -k /opt

Table 1-1 lists the amount of free disk space required to install the Site/SunNet/Domain Manager and AnswerBook packages:

Table 1-1

Package Name	Required Free Space (Mb)
Site/SunNet/Domain Manager and Cooperative Consoles	26
AnswerBook (nil option)	less than 1
AnswerBook (heavy option)	27

Is enough free disk space available in your installation directory?

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Following installation, you need 10-15 Mb of disk space for your runtime database. The size of this database depends on the number of elements you manage.

8. Do you have the superuser password for both the machine where the software is to be installed and the machine with the CD drive, if different?

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9. Does superuser have read, write, and execute access to the installation directory (where the software is being installed)? ____________

   Does the user have read and execute permission?.....____________

10. If you are going to install the Sun SNMP agent, have you determined what its read and write community names will be?

    The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agent allows your management system to communicate with other SNMP-based systems. If you install the Sun SNMP agent, you need to specify the read and write community names for the agent. The defaults are, respectively, "public" and "private." Community names are equivalent to passwords and are used to authorize read and write access. Although many sites use "public" for read access, you should choose the write community name with the same care as a system root password. The community names are stored in the /etc/opt/SUNWconn/snm/snmpd.conf file, which should be readable only by root.

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Getting Help

If you have problems installing or using the software, call your authorized service provider and have the following information ready:

• Model number of the machine
• Serial number of the machine
• SunOS release number
• Release number of the product (2.3)

You can display information needed for help calls by entering the following command:

hostname% showrev

Your screen will show information similar to the following:

Hostname: casbah Hostid: 5300a892 Release: 5.4 or higher Kernel architecture: sun4c Application architecture: sparc Hardware provider: Sun_Microsystems Domain: EBB.Eng.Sun.COM Kernel version:SunOS 5.4 or higher Generic 101318-31 January 1996