Management and Monitoring Services
This section contains the minimum server requirements for Management and Monitoring Services:
General Server Requirements
ZENworks Server Management can run in a mixed eDirectory environment. For example, your network might have both eDirectory 8.x and NDS 6.x or 7.x installed.
For ZENworks 6.5 SP1 and earlier, eDirectory 8.6.2 or 8.7.1 or later is required for ZENworks Server Management so that its objects can be placed in the tree during installation of the product.
For ZENworks 6.5 SP2 and later, eDirectory 8.7.3 or later is required for ZENworks Server Management so that its objects can be placed in the tree during installation of the product.
The server on which the site-server is installed must have a Read-Write replica of eDirectory.
NetWare Server Requirements
Following are the common NetWare minimum requirements for Management and Monitoring Services:
Novell eDirectory |
8 or later (ZENworks 6.5 SP1 and earlier) 8.7.3 or later (ZENworks 6.5 SP2 and later) |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Free Disk Space |
170 MB free disk space; extra disk space might be required for discovery or alarm data |
1 MB; extra disk space for trending information |
1.5 MB; extra disk space for trending information |
1.5 MB; extra disk space for trending information |
Disk Space for ConsoleOne Snap-Ins (if installed on the server) |
50 MB |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
IP Address |
Static |
Valid IP/IPX* address |
Valid IP/IPX address |
Valid IP address (IPX is not supported) |
Server CPU Type |
Pentium III |
Processor meeting OS requirements |
Processor meeting OS requirements |
Processor meeting OS requirements |
Following are the platform-specific NetWare minimum requirements for Management and Monitoring Services:
NetWare 5.1: Support Pack Version |
6 |
5 |
5 |
5 |
NetWare 6: Support Pack Version |
3 |
2 |
2 |
2 |
NetWare 6.5: Support Pack Version |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
NetWare 5.1: Server RAM |
384 MB |
128 MB |
128 MB |
128 MB |
NetWare 6: Server RAM |
512 MB |
256 MB |
256 MB |
256 MB |
NetWare 6.5: Server RAM |
1 GB |
512 MB |
512 MB |
512 MB |
NetWare 6.5 OES or NetWare 6.5 OES SP1 |
N/A |
512 MB |
512 MB |
512 MB |
Windows Server Requirements
DNS: All target Windows servers should have fully qualified DNS names. For more information, see DNS Requirement.
Following are the common Windows minimum requirements for Management and Monitoring Services:
Server CPU Type |
250 MHz Pentium |
250 MHz Pentium |
250 MHz Pentium |
Free Disk Space |
2.5 MB with extra disk space for trending information |
2.5 MB with extra disk space for trending information |
2.5 MB with extra disk space for trending information |
IP Address |
Valid IP/IPX |
Valid IP/IPX |
Valid IP address (IPX is not supported) |
Following are the platform-specific minimum requirements for Management and Monitoring Services:
Service Pack Version (ZENworks 6.5 SP1 and earlier) 1 |
3 or later |
3 or later |
3 or later |
Service Pack Version (ZENworks 6.5 SP2 and later) 1 |
4 or later |
4 or later |
4 or later |
Novell eDirectory |
N/A |
N/A |
N/A |
Server RAM |
128 MB |
128 MB |
128 MB |
1 No service pack is required for Windows Server 2003.
Linux Server Requirements
Management and Monitoring Services is not supported on Solaris.
Operating System Version |
Distributions supported: - SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 8
- SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9
- SUSE LINUX Standard Server 8
- SUSE LINUX Standard Server 9
- Red Hat Advanced Server 2.1
- Red Hat Enterprise Server 2.1
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 3
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 3
Perl package v5.6.1 or above must be installed |
Machine Type |
IBM compatible PC |
Supported Processors |
Intel for Linux |
Server RAM |
128 MB minimum;
256 MB recommended |
Server CPU Type |
200 MHz Pentium
or faster |
Free Space for Management and Monitoring Services Files |
10 MB |
SNMP Package for Management and Monitoring Services |
net-snmp rpm package version 5.0.6 or above must be installed and must support the dlmod option or ucd-snmp (ucdsnmp) rpm package version 4.2.6 or above must be installed and must support the dlmod option NOTE: The snmp agent installed on the device must support the dlmod option. To check, enter: snmpd -H 2>&1 | grep dlmod If this returns an empty line, the dlmod option is not supported. Check with your distributor on how to acquire an SNMP version that supports the dlmod option. |
Beyond the Linux server where you are installing Management and Monitoring Services, the following requirement must be met somewhere in your network:
- To administer Management and Monitoring Services on Linux servers using ConsoleOne, version 1.3.6 must be installed on a Windows workstation. ConsoleOne is required for managing ZENworks Server Management. For information on installing ConsoleOne, see Installing ConsoleOne 1.3.6.
Role-Specific Server Requirements
Before you start installing the Management and Monitoring Services software, you must prepare the target Management server, Managed servers, the management console, and the Traffic Analysis agent. For details on preparing each of the systems, refer to the following sections:
Following are the minimum requirements and preparations for Management and Monitoring Services servers:
Management Server
Before you install the Management and Monitoring Services software, you must verify the following:
- Verify that you have access to Windows 2000/XP to install the Management server and Managed servers.
- Verify that all replicas on your tree are in sync. If they are not, errors can occur when installing ZENworks eDirectory objects. It is required that you have a read/write replica of the eDirectory tree on your server.
- Verify that the sys:\etc\hosts file has the proper entry to map the hostname to the IP address.
- Close all applications running on the console to ensure that the installation goes smoothly.
- (Recommended) Verify that Sybase is not running on the server where you will be installing the ZENworks database.
NOTE: Installing Management and Monitoring Services or Policy and Distribution Services to a server automatically starts Sybase. If you are installing Management and Monitoring Services to a server where you have already installed Policy and Distribution Services, you must stop the Policy and Distribution Services and quit Sybase at the server before installing other services. To quit Sybase, go to the server console, and enter q on the Sybase screen.
Managed Servers
Before you install the Management and Monitoring Services software, you must verify the following:
- Authenticate to the tree that contains all the NetWare and Windows 2000/2003 that you want to manage.
HINT: You do not need to map a drive to all the managed servers, but you need Admin or equivalent rights to the managed servers.
- For Windows 2000/2003 servers, create a shared directory on any drive before installing the management agents, and assign all rights to the share.
By default, the Windows administrative shares, such as C$ and D$, cannot be used for installing the management agents. You have to manually create a share for installing the agents.
- For Windows 2000/2003, install and configure the SNMP service. For information, see Installing and Configuring the Windows SNMP Service.
Traffic Analysis Agent
Before you install the software, you must:
- Allocate the appropriate amount of free disk space. To capture one year of trend data, you must have at least 25 MB of free disk space on the server for each monitored Ethernet adapter, and at least 50 MB of disk space on the server for each monitored FDDI ring adapter or token ring adapter.
- Install promiscuous mode LAN drivers on NetWare or promiscuous mode NDISLAN drivers on Windows 2000/2003.
- For Windows 2000/2003, bind TCP/IP to the network segments monitored by the agent.
- For Windows 2000/2003, install and configure the SNMP service. For information, see Installing and Configuring the Windows SNMP Service.
Advanced Trending Agent
Before you install the Management and Monitoring Services software, you must verify the following: