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This section contains the requirements for the Linux operating system that is used for the CMS.

Operating systemHardwareSoftwareNetworking

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 AS and ES U7 for x86

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 AS and ES U3 for x86

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 for AMD64 and EM64T (manual installation only)

  • SUSE Linux Server 9 with Service Pack 3 for x86

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 for AMD64 and Intel EM64T (manual installation only)

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10

Any HP IA-32 system with the following configuration:

  • Minimum: 1.5-GHz processor and 1 GB RAM

  • Recommended: 2.4-GHz processor and 1.5 GB RAM

Any HP system with Oracle 9i installed minimum 4 GB RAM

free disk space

  • 2 MB for CMS (/)

  • 400 MB for the CMS and DTF agent (/opt)

  • 500 MB minimum recommended for data (/var/opt)

swap space

  • 3 GB minimum total swap space for Itanium-based systems

  • OpenSSH version 1.0 or later

  • ProLiant Support Pack for Linux 7.00 or later

  • (Optional) Oracle 9i release 2

  • Oracle 10g

For Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.0 AS/ES update 7:

  • PostgreSQL 7.4.1

For SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9:

  • PostgreSQL 7.4.2-36.3

For SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10:

  • PostgreSQL 8.1.4

  • Static or dynamic host name resolution

    Note: On Linux, look for the entry 127.0.0.1 localhost, the local system IP address, and the system name in the /etc/hosts file. If they are not present, add the entries manually.

  • SNMP

NOTE: HP SIM 5.1 can run on a Linux Virtual Machine (VM) provided the following requirements are met. The VM must be hosted on an ESX 3.0.1 or later server and the VM configuration must meet HP SIM hardware requirements and the CPU and Memory resources allocated to this VM must be always available to this VM (by reserving CPU and Memory resources).PostgreSQL 8.0.x is not supported on HP SIM 5.0 on Japanese installations. Installing an HP SIM CMS on Linux IPF is not supported. If you see the following error message, it is because you are attempting to manually install on an unsupported IPF system:

error: %pre(hpsim-C.05.01.00.00-1.i386) sciptlet failed, exit status 255

error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping hpsim-C.05.01.00.00-1



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