Installation Overview

The Solstice AdminSuite 2.3 software is installed using the admin_install script, found at the root level directory of the CD-ROM. You can use the installation script to install the software on systems in the network, as well as standalone systems. Help is available when you run the script, and the script is designed for you to easily install the Solstice AdminSuite 2.3 product.

The installation script provides the following options:

• Install AdminSuite 2.3 and AutoClient 2.1

• Install SunSoft Print Client (Solaris 2.3 - 2.5.1 only)

• Install Software Usage Monitoring Toolkit

• Set up systems to use AdminSuite and AutoClient

The software products that are available from the main menu are installed in different ways. Some products can be installed on a server and shared with other systems, while other products must be installed directly onto each system and cannot be shared. For example, the SunSoft Print Client product is installed directly onto the file system. The Solstice AdminSuite 2.3 product and software usage monitoring product can be installed on a single system and shared with others systems using the NFS distributed file system.

Though the script uses a self-documenting interface, this section describes the major options used by the script during the installation process.

The admin_install installation program cannot be used to install the software on diskless, dataless, or AutoClient system types.