N1 Grid Service Provisioning System 5.0 Installation Guide

General System Requirements

This section lists requirements for installing and using the N1 Grid Service Provisioning System 5.0:

Supported Operating Systems

You can install the N1 Grid Service Provisioning System 5.0 Master Server on servers that are running the following operating systems:

Solaris 8 OS running on SPARC® based servers
Solaris 9 OS running on SPARC and x86 based servers
Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server and Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server

You can install the N1 Grid Service Provisioning System 5.0 Remote Agent, Local Distributor, and CLI Client on servers that are running the following operating systems:

Solaris 7 and Solaris 8 OS running on SPARC based servers
Solaris 9 and Solaris 10 OS running on SPARC and x86 based servers
Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1 and Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 3.0
IBM AIX 5.1, 5.2
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server and Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server

Supported Web Browsers

The following table lists the web browser requirements for the N1 Grid Service Provisioning System 5.0 browser interface.

Table 2–1 Web Browser Requirements for the Browser Interface


Platform	Browser
Solaris	Netscape Navigator 6.2.2, Netscape Navigator 7.0
Red Hat	Netscape Navigator 6, Netscape Navigator 7.1
Windows	Internet Explorer 6, Netscape Navigator 6, Netscape Navigator 7.1

Note –

Some web proxy servers are configured to block popup windows. The N1 Grid Service Provisioning System 5.0 relies on the ability to present popup windows to run properly. Do not run web proxy servers that block popup windows.

Required Operating System Patches

The following table lists the required patches for each supported operating system.

Table 2–2 Required Patches for Supported Operating Systems


OS Version	Required Patches
Solaris 7	106980-16 106541-16 107544-03 106950-13 106327-08 106300-09
Solaris 8, SPARC based servers	111310-01 109147-28 111308-04 112438-03 108434-15 108435-15 111111-04 112396-02 110386-03 111023-03 111317-05 113648-03 115827-01 116602-01 108987-13 108528-29 108989-02 108993-33 109326-14 110615-10
Solaris 9, SPARC based servers	None
Solaris 9, x86 based servers	None
Solaris 10, SPARC based servers	None
Solaris 10, x86 based servers	None

IBM AIX 5.1	AIX 5100-04 maintenance level (APAR IY44478)
IBM AIX 5.2	AIX 5200–01 maintenance level (APAR IY 44479)

Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1	None
Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 3.0	None
Windows 2000 Server or Windows 2000 Advanced Server	Service Pack 3

Requirements for SSH

If you want to use SSH for secure connections on Solaris OS, Red Hat Linux, or IBM AIX servers, you must have SSH protocol version 2 installed on each machine that you want to use SSH.

Requirement for Jython

If you want to use Jython with the CLI Client, install Jython version 2.0 or higher. For more information about Jython, see http://www.jython.org.

Requirements for Locales

The N1 Grid Service Provisioning System 5.0 has been internationalized to install and run in localized environment. Also, The N1 Grid Service Provisioning System 5.0 accepts non–ASCII characters. You will need to adhere to the following requirements if you require that the software support non-ASCII characters:

All applications must be run in the same locale or in locales that are equivalent. The Remote Agent, Local Distributors, and CLI Client must run a locale that is compatible with the locale in which the Master Server is running.
You must use Internet Explorer 5.5 or 6.0, or Netscape 7.0.
Set the web browser Character Interface to use UTF-8, which is also known as Unicode or Universal Alphabet.
In the configuration files, such as the config.properties file, all non-ASCII characters must be Unicode-encoded. You can create configuration files in any encoding. Then, use the native2ascii command that is available in the Java^TM Development Kit (JDK) package to convert the file to Unicode-encoded ASCII characters.