Deployment Guide
Contents
1 Introduction...........................................................................................................6
What Is New In This Release.................................................................................................................6
Software Availability.........................................................................................................................6
Systems Management Software............................................................................................................7
Server Administrator Components On A Managed System...........................................................7
Security Features................................................................................................................................... 9
Other Documents You Might Need....................................................................................................10
2 Preinstallation Setup.......................................................................................... 11
Installation Requirements....................................................................................................................11
Supported Operating Systems And Web Browsers...................................................................... 11
System Requirements.................................................................................................................... 11
Managed System Requirements....................................................................................................11
Supported Systems Management Protocol Standards................................................................ 12
Configuring SNMP Agents...................................................................................................................13
Remote Enablement Requirements....................................................................................................13
Dependent RPMs For Remote Enablement..................................................................................13
Post Installation Configuration For Remote Enablement............................................................14
Winbind Configuration For openwsman And sfcb For Red Hat Enterprise Linux Operating
Systems................................................................................................................................................ 16
Workaround For The Libssl Issue........................................................................................................ 17
Winbind Configuration For openwsman And sfcb For SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Operating System................................................................................................................................ 17
3 Installing Managed System Software On Supported Linux And
VMware ESXi........................................................................................................... 18
Software License Agreement..............................................................................................................19
RPM For Individual Components........................................................................................................20
OpenIPMI Device Driver..................................................................................................................... 26
Degradation Of Functionality When The Server Administrator Instrumentation Service Is
Started............................................................................................................................................26
Installing Managed System Software..................................................................................................27
Prerequisites For Installing Managed System Software............................................................... 27
Installing Managed System Software Using The Provided Media............................................... 28
Server Administrator Custom Installation Utility...........................................................................31
Managed System Software Installation Using Third Party Deployment Software......................33
Uninstalling Managed System Software.............................................................................................35
Uninstalling Managed System Software Using The Uninstall Script............................................35
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