C H A P T E R 1 - Planning the Installation

C H A P T E R 1

Planning the Installation

This chapter provides the information you need to plan to install the Sun Control Station CC Edition software, henceforth referred to as Sun Control Station software.

This chapter covers the following topics:

Installation Modules

Dependencies, Requirements, and Limitations

System Requirements

Installed Software Components

Preinstallation Checklist

Installation Modules

Note - The Sun Control Station software runs on the Solaris trademark 9 Operating System and on the Solaris 10 Operating System.

The Sun Control Station application is designed to help you manage your systems. It is the framework for the following modules, which are available with the Sun Control Station installation:

Configuration and Service Tracker (CST) 3.5.2 middleware server software. CST is designed to track system configuration and availability issues. The CST application has agent and server components. The agent components are included in Sun^SM Net Connect 3.2. The server components are downloaded as part of the Sun Control Station software.

Local Patch Server (LPS). LPS provides a method of storing and distributing patches within your intranet. LPS is downloaded as part of the Sun Control Station software for the Solaris 9 OS. However, LPS is not downloaded with the Sun Control Station software for the Solaris 10 OS.

Data Manager Module (DMM). The DMM is an optional module that aggregates message traffic for your Sun Net Connect 3.2 monitored systems. To complete the entire DMM installation, you must first install the Sun Control Station software, then download and install the DMM software from the Sun Net Connect web site at https://srsnetconnect.sun.com.

Go to the Sun Download Center to download the Sun control Station CC Edition software for either the Solaris 9 OS or the Solaris 10 OS.

You can access the software manuals in PDF format from the browser interface by clicking the Help icon (question mark icon) in the upper right corner of the Sun Control Station CC Edition web page.

Dependencies, Requirements, and Limitations

The Sun Control Station application requires an existing connection to the Internet or a frame relay line.

On a Solaris 9 system: You must install the following packages (from the Solaris Companion CD) on the server before you install the Sun Control Station software:

MySQL Database Management System application (SFWmysql)

Gcmn 1 Common GNU package (SFWgcmn)

New curses library (SFWncur)

Note - If you do not have the Solaris Companion CD, go to http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/freeware and click Companion Software Individual Packages Download for your Solaris OS version. At Select a Download, click the companion software for your platform. Log in to the Sun Download Center and download the packages.

You must uninstall any version of Sun Net Connect and the CST agent before you install the Sun Control Station CC Edition software.

On the Solaris 10 OS, the Sun Net Connect software and the Sun Control Station CC Edition software only function in the global (default) zone.

You must install the SCS software on a local file system. You cannot install it on an NFS-mounted file system.

System Requirements

The Sun Control Station software runs on the Solaris 9 OS and the Solaris 10 OS.

Note - The LPS application is available in the Sun Control Station software for the Solaris 9 OS. You must download and install LPS separately for the Solaris 10 OS.

This section covers the following topics:

Recommended Server Configuration

Patches

Web Browser Requirements

Ports

Recommended Server Configuration

The Sun Control Station software works best on a dedicated server.

Caution - You mustinstall the Sun Control Station CC Edition software on a local file system of your server. You cannot install it on a remotely mounted file system.

At least a 1 GHz SPARC^® processor

1 Gbyte of RAM

At least 60 Gbytes of free disk space in the root (/) directory

At least 250 Mbytes of free disk space in the /usr directory

At least 1 Gbyte of free disk space in the /var directory

For DMM only: At least 3 Gbytes of free disk space in the /scs directory

To create a custom partition on your disk drive, create the /usr/mgmt/var/tomcat4 directory and allocate it as much space as possible

The Sun Control Station software might affect other programs that are running on the server. The following happens when you install the Sun Control Station software:

Installs Tomcat 4.x and uses that version

Creates a Tomcat 4.x user and group, tomcat4

Starts MySQL

Patches

The current installation script only checks for the latest Solaris 9 patches. Go to the sunsolve.sun.com site and search for the latest CST 3.5.2 and Solaris patches. Download the required patches, any on which they depend, and install them.

The following 32-bit linker patches are required for each Solaris based monitored system proxy:

Solaris 9 OS: Linker patch 112963-08 or higher

Solaris 10 OS: Go to the SunSolveSM site at http://sunsolve.sun.com to download the latest patch

CST 3.5.2 requires the /usr/lib/libCstd.so.1 file, which is standard in the Solaris 9 OS and the Solaris 10 OS.

Web Browser Requirements

To manage the Sun Control Station application from the browser interface, you must enable cookies, cascading style sheets, and the JavaScript trademark settings on your browser. These features are normally enabled by default.

The Sun Control Station application is best viewed in these browsers:

NetscapeTM, at least Version 6.0

MozillaTM

Internet Explorer

Ports

Note - The server on which you install the Sun Control Station software must have a static IP address.

These ports must be available for the Sun Control Station software. You can only modify port values that are described as being default values.

Apache: inbound port 80

Control station browser interface: inbound port 8080

SSL for Tomcat 4.x: inbound port 8443

MySQL: inbound port 3306

CST 3.5.2:

TCP: inbound and outbound port 3742

UDP: default inbound and outbound ports are randomly assigned

DMM: default inbound port 8000; default outbound port 443

Sun Net Connect 3.2 proxy: outbound port 443

Sun^SM Connection Shared Shell: outbound port 9004

Sun Connection Shared Web: default inbound port 7995; default outbound port 9004

Installed Software Components

The following components are included in the software and installed as part of the Sun Control Station product:

Sun Control Station framework

LPS module (on Solaris 9 OS only) and includes an installation of Sun Patch Manager 2.0

CST 3.5.2 middleware server software

DMM placeholder

WBEM patch

The following third-party software:

Apache Jakarta Tomcat 4.x (tomcat4), the servlet container used for Sun's Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies

Perl

Preinstallation Checklist

Before you install the Sun Control Station software, complete the tasks in the following checklist:

TABLE 1-1 Sun Control Station Preinstallation Che cklist
	Verify that your system meets the requirements listed in Dependencies, Requirements, and Limitations, including prerequisite software packages (`SFWmysql`, `SFWgcmn`, and `SFWncur`), and in System Requirements.
	If you have the Sun Net Connect software or the CST agent installed on the system, uninstall that software before installing the Sun Control Station software. Log in to the monitored system as `root` and change to the following directory: `#` `cd /opt/SUNWsrspx/bin` Type the following to run the uninstall script: `#` `./UninstallNetConnect.003.00`x`.00`x`.sh` For example, to uninstall Sun Net Connect 3.2, type the following: `#` `./UninstallNetConnect.003.002.000.sh` If the Sun Net Connect installation script installed CST, remove this package: `#` `pkgrm SUNWcstu` If CST was not installed with Sun Net Connect, see the Configuration and Service Tracker, Version 3.5.2, Installation and Administration Guide for the steps to uninstall CST. If you installed Sun Net Connect from the Solaris CD, see the SRS Net Connect Solaris 9 9/04 Installation and Activation Guide at `http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-0617` or see the Sun Remote Services Net Connect 3.1.1 Solaris 10 2/05 Installation and Activation Guide at .`http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-1074`. If you installed Sun Net Connect with Java Enterprise System, see the Sun Remote Services Net Connect Activation Guide at `http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-0619` or see the Sun Remote Services Net Connect 3.1.1 Solaris 10 2/05 Activation Guide at .`http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/819-1073`.
	Verify that the user account has a shell associated with it and that the user can interact with the `crontab` entries.
	Verify that the `root` user owns the `/opt` directory.