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Appendix: Troubleshooting the Installation

Transfer of Managed Server Agent Software to

ESX Server Machine Fails

Problem IfyoudownloadtheManagedServersoftware,copyittotheESXServer

machine,andrunthetar-xvzfcommand,thiserrorappears:

tar: This does not look like a tar archive

tar: Skipping to next header

tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers

tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors running installer

Solution Themessageindicatespossiblecorruptionofthefile.Beforeinstallingthe

ManagedServersoftware,transferthefiletotheESXServermachineusingFTPin

binarymode.Formoreinformationonusingbinarymodeandverifyingtheintegrity

ofthesoftware,seethestepsin“InstallingtheManagedServerAgent

SoftwareonESX

Server”onpage 30.

Error 1603: Required Services for Installing Lab Manager

Problem DuringtheinstallationofLab ManagerServer,error1603appears.

Solution MakesuretheIISAdmin,WorldWideWebPublishing,andHTTPSSL

servicesarerunning.