Users Guide
Stopping Servers | Completing Post-Installation Tasks
68 OMNM 6.5.3 Installation Guide
Installing Acrobat Reader
After you complete the installation, you may want to install Adobe Acrobat Reader. You can
download a free copy from
www.adobe.com
. This application requires Acrobat to successfully print
reports.
Installing Perl
The OpenManage Network Manager (OMNM) Linux installation does not include the Perl
package. The Windows installation includes Perl as part of the installed Cygwin component. The
Virtual Appliance also includes Perl on the Linux operating system. If you want to take advantage
of the OMNM application’s use of Perl scripting capabilities on other Linux platforms, make sure
that you install the Perl package on the Application server and the Mediation server host.
Before installing OMNM, install Perl to take advantage of OMNM’s scripting capabilities. For some
of those capabilities. See
Upgrading Perl in this version
.
You must install it on the path on the Application server/Mediation server host. Best practice is to
restart the server so it recognizes the path, and to use Perl version 5.10 or later (however not 5.16).
Some functions also require Perl as well as the Perl module
Net::Telnet
, so make sure that
whatever Perl you install includes that module. If it is not installed,
Net::Telnet
and other
modules are available at
www.perl.com/CPAN
.
NOTE:
Running
perldoc [package name]
(for example
perldoc Net::Telnet
) lets you know
whether your system has the relevant package.
Because it is freely available on the internet, Perl is not included in OMNM’s installation. You can
find information about Perl at
www.perl.com.
Follow the downloads link to find the recommended
distribution for your specific platform. One recommended Perl package is from ActiveState,
accessible at:
www.activestate.com/activeperl/
Upgrading Perl in this version
Perl v. 5.14 deprecates the
switch
module. After this update if you still have
switch
cases/scripts
using
switch
statements, then you must install
switch.pm
manually.
You can use the
switch.pm
file from an older Perl installation or look online for it.
If you see an error saying
Can't locate Net/Telnet.pm
in Linux environments, you can
resolve this issue by installing Net::Telnet with the following steps:
1
Log in as root user
2
Execute
#perl -MCPAN -e'shell'
3
Cpan> install Net::Telnet
Stopping Servers
To stop the Application server, you can either use the Application server tool in the Windows
system tray, or stop the server from a command line. The command line to stop a server is
pmstopall
.
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