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Pre-installation requirements

Before you install DCFM, make sure you meet the following requirements for each platform.

Pre-installation requirements for UNIX systems

• To avoid errors, close all instances of the application before beginning the installation or uninstallation

procedures.

If you still receive error messages after closing the application, enter the following commands:

#ps -ef | grep -i “” to list the process IDs

#kill -9 “Process_ID” where Process_ID is any Management application process

• Check for and install the latest Java patches for your operating system. DCFM requires JRE 1.6.0_16. For the

Solaris website listing patch information, go to http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp.

• (Solaris only) To use IPv6 on a server that is IPv4- and IPv6-enabled, complete the following steps.

a. Open a command window.

b. Type ifconfig Interface_Name inet6 plumb up and press Enter.

c. Restart the Management server and client, if running.

If the IPv6 address is not configured properly, the client will show a "Server Not Available at port 51511"

message even though the server started successfully.

• Make sure that an X Server is available for display and is configured to permit X Client applications to display

from the host on which they are installing the DCFM server (typically, this simply requires that the systems

console be present and running with a logged-in user on the X Server-based desktop session, such as KDE,

GNOME, and so on).

If this is a headless unit with no console, refer to “Pre-installation requirements for UNIX systems (headless

installation)” on page 13.

• Make sure that the DISPLAY environment variable is correctly defined in the shell with a valid value (for example,

to display to the local console, export DISPLAY=:0.0, or to display to a remote system that has an X Server

running, export DISPLAY=Remote_IP_address:0.0).

You may also need to consider a firewall that might block the display to the X Server, which listens by default on

TCP port 6000 on the remote host.

To display to a remote system, you need to permit the remote display of the X Server by running the xhost +IP

command, where IP is the IP address of the DCFM server host from the X-based desktop of the remote system.

• Make sure you test the DISPLAY definition by running the xterm command, from the same shell from which you

run install.bin. A new X terminal window to the destination X Server display should open.