Sun Management Center 4.0 Installation and Configuration Guide

Determining the Installation Source

You can install, set up, and configure Sun Management Center 4.0 using either the Sun Management Center installation DVDs or a Sun Management Center installation image located on your network. DVD images eliminate the need to install Sun Management Center on each machine from the DVDs.

This section provides the procedures for creating Sun Management Center installation images.

There are two methods for capturing an installation image. You can copy Sun Management Center installation DVDs to a location on your network. You can also download and unpack the Sun Management Center installation image from the Sun Management Center Web site.

Note –

To install, set up, and configure , you must be logged in as root on Solaris machines, and as administrator on Microsoft Windows.

Creating Installation DVD Images

To create the Sun Management Center DVD images, you create a directory to contain the images, copy the DVD to the directory, and then share the directory using network file system mounting.

To Create DVD Images

In a terminal window, log in as root by typing su - root.

Create a directory to which you will copy the DVD.

For example:
# mkdir /SunManagementCenter

Change to the directory you created for the DVD images.

For example:
# cd /SunManagementCenter

Create a diskn directory for each DVD, where n is the sequence number of the disk.

For example:
/SunManagementCenter# mkdir disk1 disk2

Make sure the vold daemon is running.

/SunManagementCenter# ps -eaf | grep vold
root 19033 19000  0 08:37:55 pts/9    0:00 vold
/SunManagementCenter#

If the grep command returns only the system prompt, then the vold daemon is not running, and must be started as follows:

/SunManagementCenter# /usr/sbin/vold &

Insert Sun Management Center 4.0 DVD in your DVD drive.

List the contents of the Sun Management Center 4.0 DVD. Then copy the contents to the disk1 subdirectory.

When the copy completes, list the contents of the DVD and the directory to verify the contents of the disk image.

For example:

/SunManagementCenter# cp -r /DiskMountDir/.* disk1
/sunmanagementcenter > ls -acp /DiskMountDir/.*
.          .CD        Copyright  image/      lib/
..         .CD01      classes/    install/    sbin/
/sunmanagementcenter > ls -acp disk1
.          .CD        Copyright  image/      lib/
..         .CD01      classes/    install/    sbin/

Caution –

<DiskMountDir> is a symbolic link. Copy only the Sun Management Center directory as shown in the above example.

Make the Sun Management Center 4.0 DVD image directory NFS-shared.

Using NFS to share the DVD image directory enables you to install Sun Management Center 4.0 from other machines by using the DVD installation images instead of manually installing from the DVDs.
1. Stop the Network File System daemon mountd:
  /SunManagementCenter# /etc/init.d/nfs.server stop
2. Add the following line to the /etc/dfs/dfstab file.
  
  share -F nfs -o ro image-dir
  
  where image-dir is the Sun Management Center 4.0 image directory that you created in Java Environment Variables and Path.
  
  For example: share -F nfs -o ro /SunManagementCenter
3. Save and close /etc/dfs/dfstab.
4. Start the Network File System daemon mountd:
  /SunManagementCenter# /etc/init.d/nfs.server start
  The Sun Management Center 4.0 image directory is now accessible from other machines.
You can now use the Sun Management Center DVD images to install Sun Management Center 4.0, or to upgrade previous versions of Sun Management Center as described in the following chapters.

Creating Images From the Download Tar File

You can download the Sun Management Center Sun Management Center compressed tar file from the Web to a Solaris machine on your network. You then decompress and untar the tar file to a image directory.

To download Sun Management Center, you must be registered with Sun as a Sun Web site user, and log in using your registered user ID. The download software Web page provides a link for registration.

Caution –

Before you download the tar file, ensure that you have at least 1.6 Gigabytes of free disk space for the tar file and for the image files that are created when you uncompress and unpack the tar file.

To Download the Tar File From the Web Site

In a terminal window, log in as root on the system where you want to create the Sun Management Center installation image.

Go to the Sun Management Center Web site at http://www.sun.com/sunmanagementcenter/.

Click Get it.

Follow the instructions and download Sun Management Center 4.0 to a location that is accessible by root.

Go to the location where the tar file has been downloaded:
# cd /download-directory

Extract the Sun Management Center packages:
# zcat downloaded-filename | tar xvf -
The image source directory is created, containing the subdirectories disk1 and disk2.

Make the Sun Management Center 4.0 image directory NFS-shared.

Using NFS to share the image directory enables you to install Sun Management Center 4.0 from other machines by using the installation images instead of manually installing from the DVDs.

For example, if you extracted the images to the directory SunManagementCenter, you would make the directory NFS-shared as follows.
1. Stop the Network File System daemon mountd:
  /SunManagementCenter# /etc/init.d/nfs.server stop
2. Edit the /etc/dfs/dfstab file.
  
  Add the following line:
  
  share -F nfs -o ro image-dir
  
  where image-dir is the Sun Management Center 4.0 image directory.
  
  For example: share -F nfs -o ro /SunManagementCenter
3. Save and close /etc/dfs/dfstab.
4. Start the Network File System daemon mountd:
  /SunManagementCenter# /etc/init.d/nfs.server start
  The Sun Management Center 4.0 image directory is now accessible from other machines.
You can now use the Sun Management Center images to install Sun Management Center 4.0, or to upgrade previous versions of Sun Management Center as described in the following chapters.