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Installation Guide for the Cisco MGC Node Manager 2.5(2)
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Chapter1 Installation Overview and Planning Installation Checklist
Cisco Element Management Framework Installation and Administration Guide at:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/netmgtsw/ps829/products_installation_and_configuration_g
uides_list.html
If you are using cooked file partitions, installing more than one drive for database storage does not yield
any performance improvements because the databases cannot span multiple partitions.
Installation Checklist
This Checklist provides a summary of all the tasks required for an initial installation of Cisco MGC
Node Manager and the Provisioning Tool. Procedures for completing each task are described in the
following chapters.
We recommend that you print out the Installation Checklist to guide you during installation.
Sequence matters unless otherwise noted.
___ Before you begin:
Read the Release Notes, which supplement and, if dif fer ent, tak e pre cedence o v er inform ation
here.
Determine Your Hardware Requirements, as described in this chapter.
___ Task 1: Gather Installation Software and Required Information
___ Task 2: Ensure That Network Devices Have the Correct Software
___ Task 3: Plan and Execute Hard Drive Partitioning
___ Task 4: Ensure That the Sun Solaris 8 Operating System Is Installed
___ Task 5: Obtain a Cisco EMF License
___ Task 6: Make System Modifications
___ Task 7: Install CiscoView 5.4. This task is required only if you want to manage CiscoSLTs or
LAN switches from Cisco MGC Node Manager, which uses the CiscoView server as the
management interface.
___ Task 8: Install Cisco EMF 3.2 If you want to use SSH for secure communications with
SSH-enabled network components, this includes installing t he Cisc o EMF str ong
cryptographic add-on.
___ Task 9: Install Cisco MGC Node Manager 2.5(2) and Verify the Installation
Note If you are installing any other element managers to run co-resident with CiscoMGC
Node Manager, also install them now.
___ Task 10. Install the CiscoView Security Module (If you are using CiscoView)
___ Task 11: Set Up the X Terminal Workstations for Remote Access
___ Task 12. Synchronize Time
___ Task 13: Configure Network Devices to Forward Alarms. This task, required before
Cisco MGC Node Manager can collect alarm information from network devices, is covered in
the Cisco MGC Node Manager 2.5(2) User’s Guide, Chapter 2, “Configuring Network
Devices for Management.”