HP UX Operating Systems manual

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18Installation overview

Configuring secure shell (ssh) or remote shell before installing products

Only users with superuser (root) privileges can install, upgrade, and initialize

Veritas Storage Foundation.

Review the preinstallation requirements and system requirements. Install the operating system before installing the Veritas software.

The product documentation is available at the following location:

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index.jsp

Use the swinstall command to install the products.

To install the bundle, enter the following command:

#swinstall -x autoreboot=true -s <source depot location> <bundle name>

If patches to the HP-UX operating system are required, the patches must be applied prior to installing the Veritas products. Patches may be required to resolve HP-UX kernel, product performance, or other issues. Patches may be required for Veritas, HP-UX, or Oracle software.

The system must be in a quiescent state before adding patches.

See the product Release Notes for last minute information on recommended patches.

You must obtain new licenses to use all of the features in the Veritas Storage Foundation software. Any Veritas licenses for the previous releases that are currently installed allow you to use only a limited subset of these features.

For remote installation, or installation on multiple systems, set up remsh or ssh.

See “Configuring secure shell (ssh) or remote shell before installing products ” on page 18.

Mount the Veritas software disc, or download and uncompress the Storage

Foundation software.

See “Mounting a software disc ” on page 24.

See “Downloading the Storage Foundation and High Availability software ” on page 24.

Configuring secure shell (ssh) or remote shell before installing products

You must establish communication between the nodes to install the Veritas software from a remote system, or install and configure a cluster. The node from which the installation utility is run must have permissions to run remsh (remote

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Contents HP-UX 11i Unix is a registered trademark of The Open Group Contents Contents Component software Symantec Product Authentication ServiceProduct overview This chapter includes the following topicsAbout this product Veritas Storage FoundationStorage Foundation Management Server Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle About Veritas Storage Foundation for OracleAbout Veritas Storage Foundation Cluster File System Storage Foundation Cluster File SystemStorage Foundation for Oracle RAC About Veritas Storage Foundation for Oracle RACProduct overview Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC Product overview Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC Contents of the software discs in the media kit How the discs are organizedDirectory name or file name Contents Disc directory structurePerforming preinstallation checks and configuration Installation overviewDocumentation references, before you install Page Configuring and enabling ssh Source System system1 Target System system2Change the permissions of this directory, to secure it System output similar to the following is displayedDo not enter a passphrase. Press Enter Connecting to system2 If the lines are not there, add them and restart sshEnter the root password of system2 at the prompt At the sftp prompt, enter the following commandTo quit the Sftp session, enter the following command To log out of the ssh session, enter the following commandEnabling remsh Where system2 is the name of the target systemRepeat this procedure for each target system Mounting a software disc Verify that the disc is mountedCopying and unzipping the downloaded release # cd /parentdirectory/install You can access product documentation in the following ways Where to find more informationService and support DocumentationWhere to find more information Service and support
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