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This chapter describes the minimum hardware and software requirements for the Cisco WAN Manager (CWM) 9.2 release. It also provides information on configuring your system for multinetwork support, as well as information on planning and configuring the Informix OnLine database.
CWM Release 9.2 must be installed on a Sun workstation (see Section, "Cisco WAN Manager Hardware Requirements" for details.) The Solaris 2.6 operating system must be installed on the Sun workstation before you install CWM 9.2. Appendix A, "Installing Solaris and Disk Partitioning", provides instructions on installing the Solaris 2.6 operating system. For complete details, refer to the appropriate Sun documentation.
Hewlett Packard's OpenView 5.01 is used to produce CWM 9.2 topologies and for logging traps. When HP OpenView 5.01 is already installed on your workstation, or you do not want to use HP OpenView 5.01 to produce topologies or log traps, proceed with the installation of CWM 9.2. Otherwise, you must install HP OpenView 5.01 on the Sun workstation before you install CWM 9.2. For instructions on installing HP OpenView, refer to the appropriate HP documentation.
The minimum recommended hard disk and memory configuration requirements are provided in this section.
The CWM 9.2 NMS workstation requires the following software components:
The following software packages are provided on the CWM Release 9.2 CD:
The CWM 9.2 NMS workstation interfaces with the following optional software applications:
CWM 9.2 supports the following Cisco software:
CWM can manage up to forty, multiple networks. When you plan to manage more than eight networks with CWM, you should configure the CWM workstation's buffer cache to 6MB (6 x 1024). You can do this configuration either before or after installing CWM. You must add the following entry (as user root) to the /etc/system file, and then reboot the workstation for this change to take affect.
set bufhwm=6144
Specify the following command (as user root) to check the current size of the buffer cache. The number shown is in bytes. Therefore, divide it by 1024 to convert it to kilobytes, or divide it by 1048576 to convert it to megabytes.
host# sysdef | grep bufhwm
The CWM installation allows you to configure the CWM Informix OnLine database into one or three partitions. As each partition can be on a separate drive, multi-partition databases are intended to improve the performance of disk I/O operations. In a single partition database configuration, you should create the root database, the CWM database, and the log database in the same partition.
In the two partition database configuration, you should create the CWM database in one partition, and the root database and the log database in the other partition.
In the three partition database configuration, you should create the root database, the CWM database, and the log database in separate partitions.
You are prompted for the database partition information during the CWM installation (either automated or manual) process as follows:
Disk Configuration Migration to CWM Release 9.2 SOL
1) Single Raw Database Disk
2) Multiple Raw Database Disk
x) To Exit
You select the multiple disk partition configuration by selecting option number two (Multiple Raw Database Disk) when prompted for the disk configuration.
See Chapter 9, "Database Management" in the Cisco WAN Manager Operations guide for a more detailed explanation of the Informix OnLine database.
An installation guide focuses on installing the product. For complete information on other software products, refer to documentation specific to that product, such as Sun, HP, or Informix documentation for users and administrators.
Refer to the following documents for more information on CWM 9.2:
Posted: Wed Mar 31 15:10:01 PST 1999
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