Install Guide

Contents
1 Introduction....................................................................................................................................................5
What’s new in this release................................................................................................................................................ 5
Software Availability.....................................................................................................................................................6
Systems Management Software......................................................................................................................................6
Server Administrator Components On A Managed System...................................................................................6
Security Features............................................................................................................................................................... 8
Other Documents You Might Need................................................................................................................................. 8
2 Preinstallation Setup.................................................................................................................................... 10
Installation Requirements.................................................................................................................................................10
Supported Operating Systems And Web Browsers............................................................................................... 10
System Requirements................................................................................................................................................ 10
Managed System Requirements................................................................................................................................11
Supported Systems Management Protocol Standards.......................................................................................... 11
Conguring SNMP Agents.............................................................................................................................................. 12
Remote Enablement Requirements................................................................................................................................12
Dependent RPMs For Remote Enablement............................................................................................................12
Post Installation Conguration For Remote Enablement.......................................................................................13
Winbind Conguration For openwsman And sfcb For Red Hat Enterprise Linux Operating Systems.................. 15
Workaround For The Libssl Issue....................................................................................................................................15
Winbind Conguration For openwsman And sfcb For SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Operating System............16
3 Installing Managed System Software On Supported Linux And VMware ESXi.............................................. 17
Software License Agreement..........................................................................................................................................18
RPM For Individual Components.................................................................................................................................... 18
OpenIPMI Device Driver..................................................................................................................................................23
Degradation Of Functionality When The Server Administrator Instrumentation Service Is Started............... 23
Installing Managed System Software............................................................................................................................ 24
Prerequisites For Installing Managed System Software........................................................................................24
Installing Managed System Software Using The Provided Media....................................................................... 25
Server Administrator Custom Installation Utility.................................................................................................... 28
Managed System Software Installation Using Third Party Deployment Software............................................ 29
Uninstalling Managed System Software........................................................................................................................ 31
Uninstalling Managed System Software Using The Uninstall Script.................................................................... 31
Uninstalling Managed System Software Using The RPM Command.................................................................. 31
4 Installing Systems Management Software On VMware ESXi....................................................................... 32
Using the vSphere CLI.................................................................................................................................................... 32
Using the VMware vSphere Management Assistant vMA......................................................................................... 33
Using the VMware Update Manager VUM...................................................................................................................33
Using The Power CLI.......................................................................................................................................................34
Accessing Server Administrator on VMware ESXi...................................................................................................... 35
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