PRIMECLUSTER Web-Based Admin View Operation Guide

2.1 Operation Environment

The management server and the monitoring node of Web-Based Admin View support the following operation environment:

• For Solaris OS
  • Memory

    More than 256MB of memory is required.

    Environment setup when using both a management server and a client, more than 256MB of memory is required.

  • Prerequisite software

    Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition,Version 1.2.1 or Version 1.2.2 (Java bundled in Solaris OS).

  • Required HDD disk space

    For the standard configuration, 60 MB of disk space is required or size of each tracing information is maximized in the environment setup, another 32MB of space is required.

  

  For supported OS, see the manual of each management product.

• For Linux(R)
  • CPU

    More than Pentium III.

  • Memory

    More than 256MB of memory is required.

  • OS

    Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES (v.2.1)

    Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES (v.3)

    SuSE SLES-7 (i386)

    SuSE SLES-8 (i586)

  • Prerequisite software
    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES (v.3)

      Java(TM)2 Runtime Environment ,standard Edition 1.4.2

    • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES (v.2.1), SuSE SLES-7, SuSE SLES-8

      IBM(R) Runtime Environment for Linux(R), Java(TM)2 Technology Edition, Version 1.3.1, 32-bit version

Refer to "Prerequisite client environment" for details of prerequisite environment for the client of Web-Based Admin View.

• To make Web-Based Admin View work on Linux, it is necessary to register the name and IP address of own host to the "/etc/hosts" file before installing Web-Based Admin View.

  Just after Linux is installed, the "/etc/hosts" file is as the following "Before change". Correct it according to the following "After change".

  • Before change

    # Do not remove the following line, or various programs

    # that require network functionality will fail.

    127.0.0.1 node_name localhost.localdomain localhost

  • After change

    # Do not remove the following line, or various programs

    # that require network functionality will fail.

    #127.0.0.1 node_name localhost.localdomain localhost

    127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost

    10.20.30.40 node_name

  Set node_name for the host, and 10.20.30.40 for the IP address in the "/etc/hosts" file. Then, change the network address and management server IP address referring to "Web-Based Admin View setup modification".

• IBM(R) Runtime Environment attached in Red Hat Linux Advanced Server release 2.1 may be unable to work in normality.
• When using IBM(R) Runtime Environment attached in SuSE SLES-8 (i586), you need to change the Java environment to "/usr/lib/IBMJava2-1.3/jre" according to "JavaVM run time environment ".