OVNM 5.3 - Operations Agent for NonStop Installation Guide

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6 Installing OVNM on Linux Server

6-1 Introduction

This chapter describes how to install HP OVNM for the first time on the HP Operations Manager (OML) Linux

Management Server.

Overview of steps for installing and configuring OVNM on OVO (VPO) Linux Server.

1. FTP the appropriated OVNM depot .tar file from the HP OVNM product CD to the Linux Server. For

locating the OVNM linux tar.file, refer to Obtaining OVNM tar File.

2. Install OVNM software.

3. Configure OVNM. Refer to the section Configuring OVNM on LINUX.

4. Deploy the NonStop Server policies on to HPOM Server and assign the responsibilities to the users for

NonStop messages using the OVO (VPO). For details, refer to the Configuring the HPOMU 9 Environment

section for details.

6-2 Installing OVNM on Linux Server

6-2-1 Obtaining ovnm_linux.tar.gz File

The following OVNM installation file is located in the HP OVNM product CD in the “OVNM for UNIX” directory

ovnm_linux.tar.gz

FTP the tar file from the Windows PC to a temporary location on the Linux Server.

NOTE:

The /

var/spool/sw

directory will be used as the Location in all examples in this Chapter.