Prerequisites

Hardware and Software Requirements

Any HP system that you want to make a member of a cell must meet certain hardware and software requirements. The system requirements are:

System Type

HP 9000 Series 700 or Series 800.

Operating System

HP-UX 11.0.

Kernel Configuration

See "Series 700 and 800 Kernel Parameter Recommendations" in this chapter for recommended kernel parameter settings.

You can check and, if necessary, change these values via SAM (the HP-UX System Administration Manager).

Memory

A minimum 32 Mb of memory is recommended for client-only systems; 64 Mb for server systems.

Swap Space

A minimum 50 Mb of swap space is recommended for client-only systems; at least 100 Mb is recommended for systems running one or more DCE servers. Device swap is strongly recommended over file system swap.

File System

HP DCE/9000 must be installed on a long-name file system. If you have a short-name file system, you must first run convertfs(1m) to convert your file system to long names.

Series 700 and 800 Kernel Parameter Recommendations

Hewlett-Packard has found that the default kernel parameter values for a 11.0 system installed with Runtime bundles are sufficient for running HP DCE 1.7 clients and servers under normal conditions (small cells with hundreds of users) with the following exceptions:

maxfiles must be increased to a minimum of 256 for all systems.
The default value for maxdsize is sufficient except in cases where you have many tens of thousands of users. At this point you should monitor the process size of your secd and cdsd. If the process size approaches the maxdsize value, maxdsize should be increased.

Kernel parameter tuning is highly application dependent. It is expected that you might need to modify your kernel parameters based upon your specific applications needs.

Distribution Media

The HP DCE/9000 Version 1.7 software is shipped on CD-ROM only.

The HP DCE/9000 Version 1.7 International Client software is shipped bundled with HP-UX 11.0. The domestic version of the client is available on the HP-UX 11.0 AR and is codeword-protected. To obtain a codeword, follow the instructions on the codeword certificate that was shipped with the CD-ROM disc.

The HP DCE/9000 Version 1.7 Server software is available on the HP-UX 11.0 AR CD-ROM and is also codeword-protected.

See the Managing HP-UX Software With SD-UX for more information on distribution media.

Network Distribution Area

The first part of the installation procedure involves loading software from distribution media to a network distribution area or depot. The drive where the distribution media is loaded must be connected to a system that has sufficient disk space available. To calculate the disk space required, refer to Tables Table 3-1 “HP DCE/9000 Version 1.7 Products and Filesets—Core HP-UX” and Table 3-2 “HP DCE/9000 Version 1.7 Products and Filesets—Applications Release” at the end of this chapter.

Prerequisites

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Hardware and Software Requirements

Series 700 and 800 Kernel Parameter Recommendations

Distribution Media

Network Distribution Area