Installation guide

EMC NetWorker Release 8.1 SP1 Installation Guide 3
Chapter 1 Getting Started
Installation roadmap................................................................................... 14
Update roadmap......................................................................................... 15
Chapter 2 Introduction
About the NetWorker product ...................................................................... 18
NetWorker datazone.................................................................................... 18
NetWorker client ......................................................................................... 18
NetWorker storage node.............................................................................. 18
NetWorker server ........................................................................................ 19
NetWorker Management Console server ...................................................... 20
Console client ............................................................................................. 21
NetWorker daemons.................................................................................... 22
Enabler codes ............................................................................................. 23
Chapter 3 Software Requirements
Multi-locale datazone requirements ............................................................ 26
General multi-locale considerations...................................................... 26
Windows requirements ......................................................................... 27
UNIX requirements ................................................................................ 27
TCP/IP requirements ................................................................................... 28
IPv6 protocol............................................................................................... 28
Chapter 4 Updating from a previous release
Introduction................................................................................................ 32
Interoperability and backward compatibility................................................ 32
Preparing the NetWorker server................................................................... 33
Preparing the storage node for Virtual Synthetic Full.................................... 34
Preparing for a Console server update......................................................... 34
Preparing the Console server................................................................. 34
Preparing the Console clients................................................................ 34
Updating NetWorker from 8.0.x ................................................................... 35
Updating NetWorker on RHEL, RedFlag, Oracle Enterprise Server, RedFlag
Asianux, SuSE, Fedora and CentOS ....................................................... 36
Updating NetWorker on AIX, HP-UX, Debian, Ubuntu, MAC-OSX, and Solaris
36
Updating NetWorker and Console server on Windows............................ 38
For Console server updates only, reconfigure LDAP................................ 38
Authorizing the NetWorker server .......................................................... 39
Updating NetWorker from 7.6.x ................................................................... 39
Determining the NetWorker version on the storage nodes ..................... 40
Console server requirements................................................................. 40
UNIX only, backing up the configuration files......................................... 41
RHEL Linux only, enabling SELinux ........................................................ 42
Optional, moving the Console server files to a new Console server ........ 43
Updating NetWorker on RHEL, RedFlag, Oracle Enterprise Server, RedFlag
Asianux, SuSE, Fedora and CentOS ....................................................... 43
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