PRIMECLUSTER Installation and Administration Guide 4.1 (for Solaris(TM) Operating System)

4.3.2 Preparing the Client Environment

Prepare hardware, operating systems, and Web browsers of the clients supported by Web-Based Admin View.

• PC client

  CPU

  Equivalent to Pentium II 233 MHz or faster

  Memory

  128 MB or more installed

  Operating system

  Windows(R) 98, Windows NT(R), Windows(R) 2000, Windows(R) Me, Windows(R) XP

  

  There are restrictions on the Japanese display environment. For details, see "Notes" below.

  Web browser

  Netscape(R) Communicator 4.5 to 4.7X, Netscape(R) 6.2, Netscape(R) 7.X, Microsoft(R) Internet Explorer 5.0 or later (Java Plug-in is required.)

  (Netscape(R) 7 is not supported.)

  Java Plug-in

  Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment Standard Edition Version 1.3.1

  Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment Standard Edition Version 1.4.2

  Display unit

  Unit that supports 800*600 pixels or more and can display High Color (16 bits, 65,536 colors).

   

• Solaris Workstation

  Memory

  128 MB or more installed (256 MB or more are recommended if multiple browsers are to be started or if an individual operation management screen is to be started more than once concurrently)

  OS

  Solaris 8 01/01 or later, Solaris 9 or Solaris 10

  Web browser

  Netscape Communicator 4.72 - 4.7X, Netscape 6.2, Netscape 7.X

  Mozilla Web browser (Java bundled in Solaris)

  Java Plug-in

  10.1.2.2,REV=1999.12.06.10.02 or higher

  20.1.2.2,REV=1999.10.14.18.04 or higher

  Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment Standard Edition Version 1.3.1

  Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment Standard Edition Version 1.4.2

  

  If you use Solaris10 as a client OS, be sure to use the Mozilla Web browser and Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition Version 1.4.2.

The System Management Console that comes with PRIMEPOWER 800/900/1000/1500/2000/2500 can also be used as a client. However, the above OS must be used.

• For Japanese to be displayed in Web-Based Admin View, the operating system environment must satisfy the following conditions:
  • Japanese Windows(R) is installed, and the language environment being used by Windows(R) is set to Japanese.
  • The Japanese package is installed in the Solaris Workstation, and the language environment to be used is set to Japanese.
• If Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment Standard Edition Version 1.3.1 is used in the Japanese environment of the Solaris 8, the top menu of Web-Based Admin View is sometimes not displayed because of a JavaVM problem. If the top menu is not displayed, use Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment Standard Edition Version 1.4.2.
• For details on the Java Plug-in settings, see "3.1.3.2 Required for the Web Browser Environment" in "PRIMECLUSTER Web-Based Admin View Operation Guide."
• For details on the operation environments of the Web-Based Admin View management server and the monitoring nodes, see "2.1 Prerequisite server environment" in the "PRIMECLUSTER Web-Based Admin View Operation Guide."
• If you are using a 3-layer configuration and operating Web-Based Admin View separately from the cluster system, the operating system of the server in which Web-Based Admin View and the GUI packages are installed must be Solaris 8 1/01 or later, or Solaris 9.
• In clients that are supported by Web-Based Admin View, the following color depth problems may exist.
  • Solaris

  When Sun's PGX32 PCI graphics card is set to 8-bit color, the GUI screen of Web-Based Admin View is sometimes not displayed correctly. This problem is present if the password field and other GUI fields are displayed as a single-color blue block when the GUI screen of Web-Based Admin View is displayed. If the problem exists, use the following commands to check the color depth of the display:

  $ xwininfo

  The color depth of the window is displayed in the Depth output parameter.

  If the GUI screen of Web-Based Admin View is not displayed correctly and the color depth is 8 bits, you can use the pgxconfig command to set the color depth to 24 bits (Use the "24" bit color depth setting, not the "8 &24" bit setting.)

  # pgxconfig -i

  For information on using the pgxconfig command, see the Sun manual "Sun PGX32 PCI Graphics Card Installation Guide."

  • Windows(R)

  When the GUI screen of Web-Based Admin View is displayed with Windows(R), the 16-bit or 32-bit color mode must be used. The 24-bit color mode does not properly support an alpha component (transparency) that is required for RMS graphs. If 24-bit color is used, RMS graphs may not be displayed properly.

  Whether problems will occur in 24-bit color mode depends on the graphics card and video driver being used.