Contents
1 Introduction....................................................................................................................................................5
What’s new in this release................................................................................................................................................ 5
Software Availability.....................................................................................................................................................6
Systems Management Software......................................................................................................................................6
Server Administrator Components On A Managed System...................................................................................6
Security Features............................................................................................................................................................... 8
Other Documents You Might Need................................................................................................................................. 8
2 Preinstallation Setup.................................................................................................................................... 10
Installation Requirements.................................................................................................................................................10
Supported Operating Systems And Web Browsers............................................................................................... 10
System Requirements................................................................................................................................................ 10
Managed System Requirements................................................................................................................................11
Supported Systems Management Protocol Standards.......................................................................................... 11
Conguring SNMP Agents...............................................................................................................................................11
Remote Enablement Requirements................................................................................................................................12
Dependent RPMs For Remote Enablement............................................................................................................12
Post Installation Conguration For Remote Enablement.......................................................................................12
Winbind Conguration For openwsman and sfcb For Red Hat Enterprise Linux Operating Systems...................14
Workaround For the libssl Issue...................................................................................................................................... 14
Winbind Conguration For openwsman And sfcb For SUSE Linux Enterprise Server Operating System............15
3 Installing Managed System Software On Supported Linux And VMware ESXi.............................................. 16
Software License Agreement..........................................................................................................................................17
RPM For Individual Components.................................................................................................................................... 17
Installing Managed System Software............................................................................................................................ 22
Prerequisites For Installing Managed System Software........................................................................................22
Installing Managed System Software Using The Provided Media....................................................................... 23
Server Administrator Custom Installation Utility.................................................................................................... 26
Managed System Software Installation Using Third Party Deployment Software.............................................27
Uninstalling Managed System Software....................................................................................................................... 29
Uninstalling Managed System Software Using The Uninstall Script................................................................... 29
Uninstalling Managed System Software Using The RPM Command................................................................. 29
4 Installing Systems Management Software On VMware ESXi....................................................................... 30
Using the vSphere CLI.................................................................................................................................................... 30
Using the VMware vSphere Management Assistant vMA..........................................................................................31
Using the VMware Update Manager VUM................................................................................................................... 31
Using The Power CLI.......................................................................................................................................................32
Accessing Server Administrator on VMware ESXi.......................................................................................................33
Uninstalling the existing Systems Management VIB................................................................................................... 33
Conguring The SNMP Agent On Systems Running VMware ESXi.........................................................................33
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