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be requested.
For the installation of a NonStop agent, here is some of the basic information about the
NonStop server that is needed before the installation:
Server name
IP address or DNS name
Port number to be used for communication between the CMS and agent on the
managed
node
Installation volume and subvolume (target directory)
User name and password
For Linux agent install, see section on
for details and requirements.
3.7. Licensing
The product will not run without proper licensing on the CMS and each managed server.
Each of the systems needs to be registered via
). For
both Linux and NonStop agents, you must know the Serial Number of your system in order
to register.
To get the valid Serial Number of your Linux system, use the command $>'dmidecode'. You
will need use the root user to do this. Because the output of this command is huge, use a
grep command to filter out the system serial number (using the command $> dmidecode |
grep "Serial Number"). The Serial Number of your Linux system will be the first serial
number as shown in the example below.
e.g. Serial Number: HP9999999
Serial Number: HP7123NAX
Serial Number: Not Specified
Serial Number: Not Specified
For this example the system serial number is HP9999999.
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