User guide

Minimum requirements for the DSView 3 software
The following are the minimum requirements for installing the DSView 3 software on a
dedicated hub server or a computer that will function as a DSView 3 software spoke server:
• For supported Windows and Linux systems: 2 GHz Pentium or equivalent processor
• For supported Solaris systems: 1 GHz UltraSparc III processor
• 4 GB of RAM - additional memory may be needed, depending on the number of plug-ins
installed and appliances supported
• 100BaseT NIC (1GByte LAN recommended)
• 10 GB of free disk space - additional disk space may be required for data logging and
plug-ins
• One of the following operating systems:
• Windows Server
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2003 Standard, Enterprise and Web Edition
• Windows Server 2008 Standard, Enterprise and Datacenter Edition
• Windows Web Server 2008
• Red Hat
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Enterprise Linux, Version 4 (AS, ES and WS products)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Version 5
• Sun
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Solaris
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SPARC 9 and 10
• Novell
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SUSE
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Linux (x86) Enterprise Server 9 or 10
NOTE: The DSView 3 software is also supported on any of these operating systems running as a guest OS in a
virtual environment. However, while the DSView 3 software is expected to function properly on a guest OS in the
virtual environment, there may be unknown performance implications.
Before installing and configuring the DSView 3 software
Before installing the DSView 3 management software, install the managed appliance hardware.
If the computer will be a hub server, you will need the license key obtained from Avocent and
provide a username and password to use for initial log in.
If the computer will be a spoke server, you will need to identify the associated hub server and
provide the name/password of the hub server’s DSView 3 software administrator.
To prevent potential mouse conflicts, you may configure certain settings on each server
connected to a KVM switch or serial console appliance. For details, see the Mouse and Pointer
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