CNS NetFlow Collection Engine Installation and Configuration Guide
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Chapter 2 Installing CNS NetFlow Collection Engine
Installing on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Platform
Step 11 You are asked whether CNS Netflow Collection Engine should be started automatically when the system
initializes:
Would you like NFC to be started when the system initializes? (y/n) y
If you respond y, the following rc scripts are created for autostarting CNS Netflow Collection Engine
when the system initializes:
• rcdir/init.d/csco_nfcd
• rcdir/rc3.d/S999csco_nfcd (symbolic link to ../init.d/csco_nfcd)
• rcdir/rc2.d/K999csco_nfcd (symbolic link to ../init.d/csco_nfcd)
On Solaris, rcdir is /etc; on HP-UX it is /sbin.
The record of this installation session is saved in /opt/CSCOnfc/logs/nfc_install.log.
Note When CNS Netflow Collection Engine is uninstalled from the system, you must remove these
files yourself after the uninstall completes.
Installing on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Platform
Note When reinstalling the same or an earlier version of CNS Netflow Collection Engine than is currently
installed on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform, you must first remove the currently-installed package
by running rpm -e CSCOnfc.
To install CNS NetFlow Collection Engine Release 5.0 on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform, perform
the following steps:
Note During an upgrade installation, existing configuration files and data files are detected and moved to the
directories NFC_DIR/config/old and NFC_DIR/logs/old, respectively.
Step 1 Log into the host as root.
Step 2 Perform one of the following:
a. If installing from CD-ROM, run setup.sh in the CD-ROM base directory.