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| SRSS 3.1.1 Installation and Configuration Guide for Linux |
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| C H A P T E R 2 |
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Preparing for Installation |
The installation process is easy and straightforward; however, it is essential that you verify all requirements before you install Sun Ray Server Software 3.1.1. This chapter describes what you need to do.
Topics in this chapter include:
Before you install Sun Ray Server Software, you should:
Make sure that you are running the desired supported operating system on your system.
Verify that you have installed the latest operating system updates.
Make sure that the system(s) on which you plan to install the software fulfills the necessary hardware and software requirements.
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Note - The suggested server configuration includes approximately 50-100 MB of swap space per user. |
The standard installation of Sun Ray Server Software requires at least 95 MB of disk space. TABLE 2-1 lists the disk space requirements for specific directories:
SRSS 3.1.1 requires a 32-bit JRE, version 1.4.2 or later. The latest Java release is available at:
http://java.sun.com/j2se
The Supplemental directory on the SRSS 3.1.1 CD contains JRE version 1.4.2_12.
Sun Ray Server Software 3.1.1 runs on:
All packages are required and must be installed. During installation, select Full Selection from the Software Selection screen, then select all check boxes for Package Selection. In particular, be sure to install tftp and Apache 1.3.29.
All packages are required, so it is best to configure the Sun Ray Server on a system on which all packages of RHEL AS 4 are installed.
During installation, select the Customize option, then select the check box for Everything in the Package Selection panel.
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Caution - The Red Hat installation script asks whether to start a graphical console. Be sure to answer "Yes", otherwise Sun Ray startup scripts and X initialization scripts may fail to run. |
The Sun Ray Administration Tool (Admin GUI) requires that a web server be installed and running on each Sun Ray Server.
If an Apache HTTP Server is detected, the utconfig script asks whether it should be configured automatically. If you answer Yes, then it is so configured.
If you answer No, then the configuration is stored in /etc/opt/SUNWut/http/http.conf. You can then use this file to configure the HTTP server manually. If you want to use a web server other than Apache, see To Configure an HTTP Server Manually.
The Apache HTTP Server is available at the following URL:
http://httpd.apache.org
The Sun Ray configuration script uses port 1660 for the Sun Ray Administration Tool (Admin GUI) by default. If this port is unavailable, you can configure a new port while running the utconfig script.
For information on configuring a web server manually, see To Configure an HTTP Server Manually.
When you configure a Sun Ray server in a failover environment, service port 7012 is used by default.
If you already have an LDAP (Lightweight Data Access Protocol) server configured on the Sun Ray server, it can coexist with Sun Ray Data Store; however, it must not use port 7012, which is reserved for use by the Sun Ray Data Store.
To view the Sun Ray Administration Tool (Admin GUI), you must have a web browser, such as Mozilla or Netscape
Communicator, installed on the system that will display it.
The latest version of the Mozilla browser is available at:
http://www.mozilla.org/download.html
The latest version of the Netscape Communicator web browser is available at:
http://www.netscape.com/download
For instructions on manual configuration of a web server, see To Configure an HTTP Server Manually.
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