This section contains the minimum server requirements for Management and Monitoring Services:
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.
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.
Following are the common NetWare minimum requirements for Management and Monitoring Services:
Table 5-10 Common Minimum NetWare Server Requirements for Management and Monitoring Services Components
Following are the platform-specific NetWare minimum requirements for Management and Monitoring Services:
Table 5-11 Platform-Specific Minimum NetWare Server Requirements for Management and Monitoring Services Components
DNS: All target Windows servers should have fully qualified DNS names. For more information, see Section 3.4, DNS Requirement.
Following are the common Windows minimum requirements for Management and Monitoring Services:
Table 5-12 Common Minimum Windows Server Requirements for Management and Monitoring Services Components
Following are the platform-specific minimum requirements for Management and Monitoring Services:
Table 5-13 Platform-Specific Minimum Windows Server Requirements for Management and Monitoring Services Components
1 No service pack is required for Windows Server 2003.
Management and Monitoring Services is not supported on Solaris.
Table 5-14 Minimum Linux Requirements for Management and Monitoring Services
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:
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 are 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.
Before you install the Management and Monitoring Services software, you must verify the following:
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$, cannot be used for installing the management agents. You have to manually create a share for installing the agents.
NOTE:On Windows Server 2003, a shared folder by default has permission. You need to manually change this permission to and .
Authenticate to the tree that contains all of the NetWare and Windows 2000/2003 servers that you want to manage.
HINT:You do not need to map a drive to all of the managed servers, but you need Admin or equivalent rights to the managed servers.
For Windows 2000/2003 servers, install and configure the SNMP service. For information, see Section E.0, Installing and Configuring the Windows SNMP Service.
Allocate the appropriate free disk space. For example, to capture one year of trend data, you must have at least 50 MB of free disk space on your server.
Before you install the software, you must:
For Windows 2000/2003 servers, before installing the management agents, create a shared directory on any drive and assign all rights to the share.
By default, the Windows administrative shares, such as C$ and D$, cannot be used for installing the management agents. You have to manually create a share for installing the agents.
NOTE:On Windows Server 2003, a shared folder by default has permission. You need to manually change this permission to and .
Allocate the appropriate amount of free disk space. To capture one year of trend data, you must have at least 25 MB of free disk space on the server for each monitored Ethernet adapter, and at least 50 MB of disk space on the server for each monitored FDDI ring adapter or token ring adapter.
Authenticate to the tree that contains all of the NetWare and Windows 2000/2003 servers that you want to manage.
HINT:You do not need to map a drive to all of the managed servers, but you need Admin or equivalent rights to the managed servers.
For Windows 2000/2003 servers, install and configure the SNMP service. For information, see Section E.0, Installing and Configuring the Windows SNMP Service.
Install promiscuous mode LAN drivers on NetWare or promiscuous mode NDISLAN drivers on Windows 2000/2003 servers.
For Windows 2000/2003 servers, bind TCP/IP to the network segments monitored by the agent.
Before you install the Management and Monitoring Services software, you must verify the following:
For Windows 2000/2003 servers, before installing the management agents, create a shared directory on any drive and assign all rights to the share.
By default, the Windows administrative shares, such as C$ and D$, cannot be used for installing the management agents. You have to manually create a share for installing the agents.
NOTE:On Windows Server 2003, a shared folder by default has permission. You need to manually change this permission to and .
Authenticate to the tree that contains all of the NetWare and Windows 2000/2003 servers that you want to manage.
HINT:You do not need to map a drive to all of the managed servers, but you need Admin or equivalent rights to the managed servers.
For Windows 2000/2003 servers, install and configure the SNMP service. For information, see Section E.0, Installing and Configuring the Windows SNMP Service.
Allocate the appropriate free disk space. For example, to capture one year of trend data, you must have at least 50 MB of free disk space on your server.