Installation guide

Installing Sentriant AG

Sentriant AG Software Installation Guide, Version 5.2

a Create clusters (see “Creating an Enforcement Cluster” on page 19).

b Add enforcement servers to defined clusters (see“Adding an ES to a Cluster” on page 22)

6 Configure Sentriant AG (see the Sentriant AG Version 5.2 Users Guide).

Locating and Verifying Server Hardware

To verify the server requirements:

1 Locate the computer you will be using for the Sentriant AG server.

2 Verify that this computer has the following:

a Processor – Intel Dual Core (Core 2 Duo/Xeon 5100 series)

● Linux – To list CPU-related information to the screen on a Linux computer, enter the following

at the command line:

cat /proc/cpuinfo | more

Press the space bar to page down through the listed information

● Windows – From the desktop, right click on My Computer and select Properties. Select the

General tab.

b Processor speed – 1.86 GHz (or greater).

● Linux – To list CPU-related information to the screen on a Linux computer, enter the following

at the command line:

cat /proc/cpuinfo | more

Press the space bar to page down through the listed information.

● Windows – From the desktop, right click on My Computer and select Properties. Select the

General tab.

cMemory – 2 GB RAM

● Linux – To list memory-related information to the screen on a Linux computer, enter the

following at the command line:

dmesg | grep Memory

The number returned to the right of the / is the total memory.

● Windows – From the desktop, right click on My Computer and select Properties. Select the

General tab.

d Disk space – 80 GB

SATA disk drive

● Linux – To list disk-related information to the screen on a Linux computer, enter the following

at the command line:

For IDE drives:

fdisk -l /dev/hda | more

For SCSI drives:

fdisk -l /dev/sda | more

Press the space bar to page down through the listed information. If you don’t know the drive

type, just pick one of the above commands and enter it. If you don’t have that type of drive,

nothing will be returned.

● Windows – From the desktop, double-click on My Computer.