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Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 6.0 Installation Guide

Linux System Configuration Requirements

The bc command must be in the user's path when you install the Sun N1 Service Provisioning System. Without the bc command, the installation exits and requests that bc be installed. Install the bc-1.06-5.rpm package or a later version of the package.

When you install the Sun N1 Service Provisioning System on an NFS mounted directory on a SUSE Linux 8 server and you want to use SSH or SSL for secure connections, configure the NFS client with nolocks or the NFS server to allow locks. If neither the NFS client nor the NFS server is configured properly, the Sun N1 Service Provisioning System application will not start.

The Linux Master Server installation program checks the following system parameters and exits with an error if the minimum values are not met.

Table 2–4 Linux Master Server System Settings (32–bit, 64–bit)

System Parameter 

Minimum Value 

shmall in /proc/sys/kernel/shmall

536870912 (512Mb) 

shmmax in /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax

536870912 (512Mb) 

Additionally, for the Linux 64–bit platform the semaphore settings should be changed in the /proc/sys/kernel/sem file to the following values:


4000  512000  512  4096

These numbers equate to the following four values: