HP XP P9000 Command View Advanced Edition Suite Software 7.6.0-00 Installation and Configuration Guide

• Installing the Device Manager agent on a UNIX host, page 57
Prerequisites for identifying RAID Manager
When Device Manager is linked to RAID Manager and used to manage copy pairs, you must determine
some information.
• The location of the RAID Manager installation folder:
• In Windows, the installation drive.
• In UNIX, the installation directory.
• The method used for managing copy pairs:
• Batch managed on a Device Manager agent host.
• Managed for each host on which the Device Manager agent is installed.
Related topics
• Prerequisites for agent installation, page 47
• Agent installation prerequisites, page 51
• Installing the Device Manager agent on a Windows host, page 56
• Installing the Device Manager agent on a UNIX host, page 57
Agent installation prerequisites
Before installing the Device Manager agent, review the general prerequisites and check the host
settings and the status of each affected program to confirm that the host system is in the appropriate
state.
For more information about system requirements, see the HP P9000 Command View Advanced Edition
Suite Software System Requirements.
Related topics
• Host prerequisites, page 51
• Host prerequisites for Windows, page 53
• Host prerequisites for Solaris, page 53
• Host prerequisites for AIX, page 54
• Host prerequisites for Linux, page 55
• Host prerequisites for HP-UX, page 55
• Installing agents, page 56
Host prerequisites
Before installing the Device Manager agent, perform prerequisite tasks as appropriate.
• The Device Manager agent does not support operating systems that allow only IPv6 addresses.
To use the agent in an IPv6 operating system, configure it to allow both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
• Stop all programs.
• When setting up a firewall provided by an operating system, configure it so socket connections
cannot be terminated in the local host.
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