Linux Server Requirements

Management and Monitoring Services is not supported on Solaris.

Windows 2000 Server or

Server CPU Type 250 MHz Pentium 250 MHz Pentium 250 MHz Pentium

Free Disk Space 2.5 MB with extra disk space for trending

IP Address Valid IP/IPX Valid IP/IPX Valid IP address (IPX is

not supported)

Service Pack Version ¹ 4 or later 4 or later 4 or later

Novell eDirectory N/A N/A N/A

Server RAM 128 MB 128 MB 128 MB

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Table 5-14 Minimum Linux Requirements for Management and Monitoring Services

5.4.5 Role-Specific Server Requirements

Before you start installing the Management and Monitoring Services software, you must prepare the target Management server, Managed servers, the management console, and the Traffic Analysis agent. For details on preparing each of the systems, refer to the following sections:

Following are the minimum requirements and preparations for Management and Monitoring Services servers:

Š “Management Server” on page 60

Š “Server Management Agent” on page 60

Requirement Linux

Perl package v5.6.1 or above must be installed

Machine Type IBM compatible PC Free Space for Management and Monitoring

Services Files

10 MB

SNMP Package for Management and Monitoring

Services net-snmp rpm package version 5.0.6 or above

must be installed and must support the dlmod option

or

ucd-snmp (ucdsnmp) rpm package version 4.2.6 or above must be installed and must support the dlmod option

NOTE: The snmp agent installed on the device must support the dlmod option. To check, enter:

snmpd -H 2>&1 | grep dlmod

If this returns an empty line, the dlmod option is not supported. Check with your distributor on how to acquire an SNMP version that supports the dlmod option.

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Š “Traffic Analysis Agent” on page 61

Š “Advanced Trending Agent” on page 61

Management Server

Before you install the Management and Monitoring Services software, you must verify the following:

Š Verify that you have access to Windows 2000/XP to install the Management server and Managed servers.

Š Verify that all replicas on your tree are in sync. If they are not, errors can occur when installing ZENworks eDirectory objects. It is required that you have a read/write replica of the eDirectory tree on your server.

Š Verify that the sys:\etc\hosts file has the proper entry to map the hostname to the IP address.

Š Close all applications running on the console to ensure that the installation goes smoothly.

Š (Recommended) Verify that Sybase is not running on the server where you are installing the ZENworks database.

NOTE: Installing Management and Monitoring Services or Policy and Distribution Services to a server automatically starts Sybase. If you are installing Management and Monitoring Services to a server where you have already installed Policy and Distribution Services, you must stop the Policy and Distribution Services and quit Sybase at the server before installing other services. To quit Sybase, go to the server console, and enter q on the Sybase screen.

Server Management Agent

Before you install the Management and Monitoring Services software, you must verify the following:

Š For Windows 2000/2003 servers, create a shared directory on any drive before installing the management agents, and assign all rights to the share.

By default, the Windows administrative shares, such as C$ and D$, cannot be used for

installing the management agents. You have to manually create a share for installing the agents.

NOTE: On Windows Server 2003, a shared folder by default has read-only permission. You need to manually change this permission to Full Control and Write.

Š Authenticate to the tree that contains all of the NetWare and Windows 2000/2003 servers that you want to manage.

TIP: You do not need to map a drive to all of the managed servers, but you need Admin or equivalent rights to the managed servers.

Š For Windows 2000/2003 servers, install and configure the SNMP service. For information, see Appendix E, “Installing and Configuring the Windows SNMP Service,” on page 341.

Š Allocate the appropriate free disk space. For example, to capture one year of trend data, you must have at least 50 MB of free disk space on your server.

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Before you install the software, you must:

Š For Windows 2000/2003 servers, before installing the management agents, create a shared directory on any drive and assign all rights to the share.

By default, the Windows administrative shares, such as C$ and D$, cannot be used for

installing the management agents. You have to manually create a share for installing the agents.

NOTE: On Windows Server 2003, a shared folder by default has read-only permission. You need to manually change this permission to Full Control and Write.

Š Allocate the appropriate amount of free disk space. To capture one year of trend data, you must have at least 25 MB of free disk space on the server for each monitored Ethernet adapter, and at least 50 MB of disk space on the server for each monitored FDDI ring adapter or token ring adapter.

Š Authenticate to the tree that contains all of the NetWare and Windows 2000/2003 servers that you want to manage.

TIP: You do not need to map a drive to all of the managed servers, but you need Admin or equivalent rights to the managed servers.

Š For Windows 2000/2003 servers, install and configure the SNMP service. For information, see Appendix E, “Installing and Configuring the Windows SNMP Service,” on page 341.

Š Install promiscuous mode LAN drivers on NetWare or promiscuous mode NDISLAN drivers on Windows 2000/2003 servers.

Š For Windows 2000/2003 servers, bind TCP/IP to the network segments monitored by the agent.

Advanced Trending Agent

Before you install the Management and Monitoring Services software, you must verify the following:

Š For Windows 2000/2003 servers, before installing the management agents, create a shared directory on any drive and assign all rights to the share.

By default, the Windows administrative shares, such as C$ and D$, cannot be used for

installing the management agents. You have to manually create a share for installing the agents.

NOTE: On Windows Server 2003, a shared folder by default has read-only permission. You need to manually change this permission to Full Control and Write.

Š Authenticate to the tree that contains all of the NetWare and Windows 2000/2003 servers that you want to manage.

TIP: You do not need to map a drive to all of the managed servers, but you need Admin or equivalent rights to the managed servers.

Š For Windows 2000/2003 servers, install and configure the SNMP service. For information, see Appendix E, “Installing and Configuring the Windows SNMP Service,” on page 341.

Š Allocate the appropriate free disk space. For example, to capture one year of trend data, you must have at least 50 MB of free disk space on your server.

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