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Sun N1 System Manager 1.3 Introduction

Determine System Requirements and Map Your Network

Before you can prepare your equipment for the N1 System Manager, you need to determine your site architecture and system requirements as follows:

  1. Map your network and determine the subnet addresses that you will use for the management, provisioning, and data networks.

    Note –

    If your network is designed to use only a management network or only a provisioning network, then the N1 System Manager operates in a restricted mode when installed. N1 System Manager provides two default security roles with specific privileges assigned for the restricted mode of operation. See Managing Roles in Sun N1 System Manager 1.3 Discovery and Administration Guide and Restricted Mode Capabilities in Sun N1 System Manager 1.3 Discovery and Administration Guide.

  2. Take inventory of the equipment you want to use with the N1 System Manager, and compare the inventory to the system requirements in Sun N1 System Manager Hardware and OS Requirements in Sun N1 System Manager 1.3 Site Preparation Guide.

  3. To assist you in determining whether you will use one switch or two switches, review Reference Configurations in Sun N1 System Manager 1.3 Site Preparation Guide.

  4. Based on the number of manageable servers installed on your N1 System Manager network, determine the management server and switch requirements.

    For management server sizing guidelines, see Management Server Considerations in Sun N1 System Manager 1.3 Site Preparation Guide.

    For switch sizing guidelines and worksheets, see Switch Considerations in Sun N1 System Manager 1.3 Site Preparation Guide.

Based on the above information, decide:

When you have completed your site planning, connect your equipment.

The next tasks are to prepare the manageable servers, to install a RIS server if you will provision Microsoft Windows operating systems, and the install an operating system on the management server. Each of these tasks can be performed in parallel.