10 DSView 3 Software Installer/User Guide
• For supported Windows and Linux systems: 2 GHz Pentium or equivalent processor
• For supported Solaris systems: 1 GHz UltraSparc III processor
• 1 GB of RAM - additional memory may be needed, depending on the number of plug-ins
installed and appliances supported
• 100BaseT NIC (1GByte LAN recommended)
• 10 GB of free disk space - additional disk space may be required for data logging and plug-ins
• One of the following operating systems:
• Windows® 2000 Server or Advanced Server with the latest service package
• Windows Server 2003 Standard, Enterprise and Web Edition
• Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2 or later
• Windows Vista™ Ultimate or Business
•Red Hat
® Enterprise Linux, Version 4 (AS, ES and WS products)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Version 5
•Sun
® Solaris™ SPARC 9 and 10
• Novell® SUSE® Linux (x86) Enterprise Server 9 or 10

Before installing and configuring the DSView 3 software

Before installing the DSView 3 management software, install the managed appliance hardware.
If the computer will be a hub server, you will need the license key obtained from Avocent and
provide a username and password to use for initial log in.
If the computer will be a spoke server, you will need to identify the associated hub server and
provide the name/password of the hub server’s DSView 3 software administrator.
To prevent potential mouse conflicts, you may configure certain settings on each server connected
to a KVM switch or serial console appliance. For details, see the Mouse and Pointer Settings
Technical Brief, which is available on the DSView 3 software DVD and on the Avocent web site.
Installing the DSView 3 Software
The DSView 3 management software may be installed using the DSView 3 software DVD or by
downloading the software in a self-extracting .zip file from the Avocent web site.
NOTE: If you are upgrading the DSView 3 software from a previous version, it is strongly recommended that you
perform a database synchronization between the hub and spoke servers; see Replication on page 71. You
should also perform a backup of the hub server prior to upgrading the DSView 3 software; see Backing up and
Restoring Hub Servers Manually on page 65. Failure to perform synchronization and backup may have
detrimental effects. A backup should be performed both before the upgrade and immediately following
the upgrade.
To install the DSView 3 software on a supported Windows system:
1. Log on to the dedicated server as Administrator.