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General installation tips for managed nodes – HP UX B6941-90001 User Manual

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Chapter 2

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Installing ITO Agents on the Managed Nodes

General Installation Tips for Managed Nodes

General Installation Tips for Managed
Nodes

❏ When possible, install the latest ITO agent software version on all

managed nodes. This will enable the latest ITO features to be used on
those nodes.

❏ The names bin, conf, distrib, unknown and mgmt_sv may not be used

for managed nodes. These names are used internally by ITO, and
therefore must not be used as the name of any system.

❏ Avoid using host aliases, as this will cause problems in the event that

two aliases are identical.

❏ The name of the management server must be known to the managed

node. This means that it must be registered on the name server or in
the local host table:

/etc/hosts

(UNIX systems), or

HOSTS.NET.SYS

(MPE/iX systems). On HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, and

other UNIX SVR4 systems, you can verify this by using the

nslookup

command. On systems running; Windows NT, OS/2, or

NetWare use the

ping

command or NLM.

❏ The DCE RPC daemon (dced or rpcd) must be running when

installing or updating the ITO Software on the management server.
Either the DCE RPC daemon (dced or rpcd) or NCS Local Location
Broker daemon (llbd) must be running when installing or updating
the ITO Software on the management server and/or managed node. If
they are not, the ITO services cannot be started. Automatic startup
and integration of the startup functionality in the appropriate boot
procedure is done by ITO only for the

dced/rpcd

or

llbd

, and only if

you have selected the

Automatic Update of System Resource

Files

option, see the

Add/Modify Node

window in the ITO

administrator GUI.

System resource files are, for example,

/etc/rc.config.d

(HP-UX

10.x and 11.x),

/etc/inittab

(AIX), and

SYSSTART.PUB.SYS

(MPE/iX)

On HP-UX systems, see the appropriate man pages, for example:
dced(1M), rpcd(1M), or llbd(1M). On MPE/iX systems, see the NCS
online documentation located at:

ncsman.pub.hpncs

and

manual.pub.hpncs

.