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Installation steps, Table – HP sv6 User Manual

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installation and user information

updating software

Chapter 2

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Installation Steps

1

Find out current version

1.

Verify that you have previous sv6_enhancements
software on your master system.

2.

If you do not have a previous version of this sv6 software
and/or June 2001 or later X server and OpenGL on your
system, do not install the sv6_enhancements bundle.
Contact HP Support.

2

Verify prerequisites.

1.

Must be able to login as root on master node, which is
connected to an HP sv6 compositor.

2.

Verify that /var/opt/sps/sv6files/sv6_targets contains
gigabit hostnames for all systems in the configuration.
(i.e. svm sv1 …sv16)

3.

Must be a rack of HPUX 11.0 workstations configured
according to sv6 standards which includes these critical
ones:

A recent version of the Quality Pack is highly
recommended. It contains graphics patches and other
standard HP patches.

Must have June 2001 or newer X server and OpenGL
(PHSS_23546, PHSS_23544,5) and/or an SV6 Core
Update patch installed. Check date by running:

what /opt/graphics/OpenGL/lib/libGL.1

SD tools must be configured for swinstall to multiple

targets (touch /var/adm/sw/.sdkey) and allow root
access from the master node to all slave nodes
(swacl).

Master has root permissions assigned in /.rhosts on
all slave nodes.

Gigabit network must be functional:
(

remsh sv1 echo hello

)

See other details in the scalable visualization guides
at:

http://www.hp.com/workstations/support/document
ation/hpux_manuals.html#scalablevis

3

Download software and
install script

1.

Download and save the sv6_enhancements and
install_sv6_enhancements files on the master system.