Installation guide
Table Of Contents
- Contents
- Using UNIX Commands
- Typographic Conventions
- Shell Prompts
- Related Documentation
- Accessing Sun Documentation Online
- Sun Welcomes Your Comments
- New Features
- Features, Benefits, and Products
- SAN 4.0 Device Names
- On-Demand Node Creation
- Fabric Connection of Hosts
- Cascading of Switches
- Higher Realized Bandwidth
- Support of Multiple Protocols
- Support for More, Heterogeneous Storage Devices
- Support for New Hardware and Software
- Software and Hardware Upgrade
- Building Blocks for More Complex Topologies
- Overall Installation Order
- Configuring the Switch Ethernet Port
- Installing SAN Software for the First Time
- Upgrading Existing SAN Software
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CHAPTER
4
Installing and Upgrading the SAN
Software
After you install your hardware in the configuration you have decided upon, and
after you have activated your switch(es), you must install the SAN software.
You can obtain the Sun StorEdge installation script at the Sun Download Center.
http://www.sun.com/software/download/
The installation script is a wrapper around pkgadd and patchadd. In the course of
installation, it installs PatchPro 2.0.1. It honors your SVR4 install policies.
Installing SAN Software for the First
Time
1. Download the script.
The install_it script can be downloaded from the Sun Download Center.
2. Become root and type install_it.
The script checks for adequate installation space and makes sure appropriate tools
are in place. It then installs or upgrades the required software packages. The
following message displays: