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This chapter describes how to prepare to install CiscoWorks Blue Maps and CiscoWorks Blue SNA View on a workstation. Before you install, configure, and validate an application, read the following main topics in this chapter:
This section lists the workstation requirements and Cisco IOS software requirements.
CiscoWorks Blue Maps and SNA View run on the following systems:
The network management systems listed here (NetView for AIX, HP OpenView, and SunNet Manager) are optional and are used for event notification, automatic discovery, and trap collection.
All platforms require the following hardware and software:
Table 2-1 lists commands that you can enter to verify hardware and software requirements on all platforms.
| Verify | On AIX | On HP-UX | On Solaris |
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Hard disk space | df -k | bdf | df -k |
Operating system version | oslevel | uname -a | uname -a |
Network management system version | lslpp -L nv6000.base.obj | /usr/sbin/swlist | grep "Network Node Manager" | pkginfo | grep SNM /opt/OV/bin/ovversion |
RAM size | lscfg | grep mem1 lsattr -E -l mem0 -F "description value"2 | /usr/sam/lbin/getmem | dmesg | grep mem
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Swap space size | lsps -s | swapinfo | swap -s |
X Window System version | Ask your system administrator. |
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| 1On an IBM RISC System 6000 workstation. 2On a Power-PC workstation. |
The Solaris patches listed by version in this section are required to install Maps and SNA View. These patches can be installed separately or as a jumbo patch from Sun Microsystems, Inc. To obtain the patches, contact your Sun Microsystems representative or download them from the Sun web site.
The following minimum patch levels are required on Solaris version 2.5.1:
The following minimum patch level is required on Solaris version 2.6:
The following minimum patch level is required on HP-UX version 10.20:
The following minimum patch levels are required on HP-UX version 11.00:
The following patches are required on AIX version 4.2:
The following patches are required on AIX version 4.3:
To be manageable by CiscoWorks Blue Maps applications, all routers must be running a Cisco IOS release indicated below:
This section describes how to configure a router for use with CiscoWorks Blue Maps and SNA View. For detailed information about configuring the Cisco IOS software with the snmp-server command, see the router configuration documentation.
Configure the Cisco IOS software in every managed router using the following command:
snmp-server community string RO
Where:
string is the community string (a password for access to SNMP) in this router.
RO specifies read-only access to SNMP in this router.
For the trap daemon (cwbtrapd) to perform optimally for RSRB, all RSRB-enabled routers must specify their addresses in the traps that they generate. Therefore, you must configure the Cisco IOS software in every RSRB-enabled router using the following command:
snmp-server trap-source interface
Where:
interface specifies the router interface (such as tokenring1) whose IP address is used as the local address for RSRB peering and is stamped on the traps that this router generates.
To use router-generated traps, all DLSw- and RSRB-enabled routers must specify the CiscoWorks Blue Maps network management host as the destination of DLSw and RSRB traps. Therefore, you must configure the Cisco IOS software in every DLSw- and RSRB-enabled router.
To configure a DLSw router, use the following command:
snmp-server host address string dlsw
Where:
address is the IP address of the network management host, such as 123.45.67.89.
string is the community string for access to SNMP in the network management host.
dlsw limits the traps sent to dlsw-related traps.
To enable the DLSw traps, use the following command:
snmp-server enable traps dlsw [circuit|tconn]
Where:
circuit limits the traps to dlsw circuit-related traps.
tconn limits the traps to dlsw peer-related traps.
To configure an RSRB router for traps, use the following command:
snmp-server host address string rsrb
Where:
address is the IP address of the management host, such as 123.45.67.89.
string is the read community string for access to SNMP in the management host.
rsrb sends only RSRB-related traps to address.
During installation, you might be asked to provide information needed by the installation program, such as the locations of key programs or the identifications of ports to be used. You should collect this information in advance to make the installation process easier.
If you install the CiscoWorks Blue applications on an HP-UX system, you might need to change the following kernel parameters, if they are lower than the following settings, using the HP-UX sam command:
See your HP-UX publications for instructions on changing these values.
These values are the minimum values needed for Maps and SNA View. If you have other resource-intensive applications on this workstation, you might need to increase these values. If you are unable to start the Process Manager, if you get "out of space" errors trying to start other CiscoWorks Blue processes, or if you get java exceptions with the message "out of memory," try increasing the swap space.
Before you install CiscoWorks Blue Maps, you must have root user authority. The user named root can perform functions restricted from normal users. You can log in to your system as the root user, or you can become the root user by using the su command. You will then be asked to enter the root user's password.
| Caution If you are a relatively inexperienced UNIX user, limit your activities as the root user to the tasks described in this publication. As the root user, you can adversely affect your operating environment if you are unaware of the effects of the commands that you use. |
If you are not logged in, you can log in as the root user by responding to the login prompt with the username root.
login: root
Password: rootpassword
If you are already logged in, but not as the root user, use the su command to become the root user:
% su
Password: rootpassword
Posted: Thu Sep 9 08:58:41 PDT 1999
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