Software Requirements

The following list describes the software requirements necessary for the BMI installation.

BMI Server

• Sun Update Connection – Enterprise components

• BMI server

• API

  • For Linux distributions – sun-uce-api and sun-uce-api-python

  • For the Solaris OS – SUNWuceapi and SUNWuceapi-python

• TFTP server

• Python

• Python module support for XML

• For Solaris 8 or 9 OS, obtain a copy of the SMCwget file and save it in the /product directory on the BMI server before you begin the installation

• For Solaris 10 OS, SMCwgetu is installed with the default installation

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  Note –

  If this file is not in the /product directory before you begin the installation, copy this file manually.

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• Verify that the BMI server is not running Apache or an instance of the httpd daemon, other than the embedded httpd daemon of Sun Update Connection – Enterprise

Image Server

• HTTP server

• FTP server

• NFS server

• If you are provisioning a Solaris system, use a SUSE 9.2 platform with kernel 2.6