Owner's Manual

60 Installation
• swap —swap is the space allocated for the operating system to use as part of its virtual
memory to augment physical memory. If something in memory has not been used for a while,
the operating system will move it to disk temporarily. Recommendations for this are typically
for two to three times the physical memory, however we usually determine the amount
available based on physical memory. If you have 512MB, specify 1.5-2.0GB. As physical
memory increases, still specify 1-2 times the physical memory so you have enough disk space
for the operating system. The following are instructions about setting swap:
a. Check your current swap space setting with swap -l
b. su to root (if not already).
c. Issue
mkfile (size required) (filename)
d. Execute swap -a (pathname) . this adds the swap file. You must use an absolute path
name
e. Check with
swap -l to confirm the new swap addition.
•
/usr —Typically holds operating system commands and utilities related to the operating
system.
/usr can also contain the documentation associated with these commands. This
partition should be a minimum of 1.5GB for a full installation. Best practice is to specify 2GB
and potentially more if you know you will be adding operating system utilities.
•
/etc —We recommend this be located on the root partition, not on its own partition. The data
here may change from time to time, but the typically does not grow significantly.
•
/var —Best practice is to create a partition for /var . This contains the syslog data, print spool,
mail, and so on. This partition could grow significantly from the required amount of disk
space depending on the applications running on the system. We recommend you allow at
least 2GB.
•
/opt —The /opt partition holds application software that is added to the system.
OpenManage Network Manager would be an application that should be installed here. The
size of this partition should depend on the required disk space for applications including
OpenManage Network Manager. Both the application’s software and data reside in the same
directory structure, however, so you can add more volumes to another partition.
•
/export/home — /export/home is typically for user data. Most systems have user home
drives specified in this space (for example:
/export/home/auser ). This should have
enough space for all user data.
•
/<some_partition_name> —With a RAID configuration, you can specify a large amount of
disk space for data purposes.
You must also enable process monitor with the appropriate property set to
true in oware/lib/
pmstartup.dat.
The property relates to either application server
(
application.server.active=true or false ) or mediation server
(
mediation.server.active=false or true ), not both.