The image format allows you to generate a full disk image format that can be deployed directly to hardware, either physical (bare metal) or virtual (uninstalled virtual machine in a hypervisor) by using a bootable ISO DVD image.
24 GB RAM for production environment. However, the minimum memory of 8 GB can be used for demonstration purpose.
50 GB hard disk space for the installer to make the automatic partition proposal.
(4 core) CPUs (8 cores total).
If you are installing the ISO on bare metal hardware, download the ISO disk image from the support site, unpack the file, and make a DVD.
CPU: Two lntel(R) Xeon(R) CPU ES-2650 @ 2.00GHz (4 core) CPUs (8 cores total), no hyper-threading.
Primary storage: 10 x 300 GB SAS 15k RPM (Hardware RAID 10)
Memory: 24 GB RAM
Ensure that you have completed the following tasks before you start the installation:
Verify that your hardware and software meet the system requirements listed in Section 5.1.1, System Requirements.
No files or system settings from a previous Analytics Server installation, if any, are available on the machine.
Ports listed in Section 1.8, Setting Up Firewalls are opened.
The password used for Administration Console does not include the &
symbol. If the password includes &
, the Analytics Server installation fails. If you have used “&” in the password for Administration Console, change Administration Console password, then start the Analytics Server installation.
If you plan to include multiple Network Interface Card (NIC), then you must install Analytics Server with one NIC and then proceed with configuring other network interfaces. For more information, see Section 5.1.5, Adding and Configuring Multiple NIC to Analytics Server.
To install Analytics Server, perform the following steps:
Download the ISO for the Analytics Server image from the NetIQ Download website.
(Conditional) If you are using a hypervisor, do one of the following actions:
Set up the virtual machine using the ISO virtual appliance image, and power it on.
Copy the ISO image into a DVD, set up the virtual machine using the DVD, and power it on.
(Conditional) If you are installing Analytics Server on bare metal hardware, perform the following actions:
Boot the physical machine from the DVD drive with the DVD.
Follow the installation wizard on-screen instructions.
Run the Live DVD appliance image by selecting the top entry in the boot menu.
The installation checks for the available memory. If the available memory is less than 6.5 GB, the installation will not proceed further. Enter y if you want to continue with the installation, or enter n if you do not want to proceed.
Select the language of your choice and keyboard Configuration, then click Next.
Read and accept the Access Manager Analytics Server End User License Agreement.
Click Next.
On the Hostname and Domain Name page, specify the hostname and domain name. De-select Assign Hostname to Loopback IP, then click Next.
Choose one of the following connection settings options:
To use the current network connection settings, select Use the following configuration on the Network Configuration II page.
To change the network connection settings, click Change, then make the desired changes.
Click Next.
Set the Time and Date, then click Next.
To change the NTP configuration after installation, use YaST from the appliance command line.
If the time appears out of sync immediately after the install, run the following command to restart NTP:
rcntp restart
Set the root password, then click Next.
In the Analytics Server Configuration page, set the Analytics Server admin password, select Use IP address for event routing, then click Next.
NOTE:The Analytics Server admin password must not contain $
, _
, !
, <
, >
, ;
, |
, (
, &
or )
. Also, the password must not begin with #
.
In the Administration console server Information page, specify the following details to import Analytics server to the specified Administration Console:
IP Address: IP address of Administration Console.
Admin User: The name of the user accessing Administration Console.
Password: Password of Administration Console user.
Confirm the password, then click Next.
NOTE:If the password includes the “&” symbol, the installation fails. You must change the admin password in Administration Console (without “&”) to continue with Analytics server installation.
The Live Installation Settings page displays the selected installation settings. Review the settings, configure the settings (if necessary), and then select Install.
Select Install to confirm the Installation.
Wait until the installation finishes. It might take few minutes for all services to start up after installation because the system performs a one-time initialization.
The Suggested Partitioning screen displays the recommended partition setup. Review the partition setup, configure the setup (if necessary), and then select Next. Modify these settings only if you are familiar with configuring partitions in SLES.
You can configure the partition setup by using the various partitioning options on the screen. For more information about configuring partitions, see Using the YaST Partitioner in the SLES documentation.
Select OK to reboot the system.
(Conditional) If you are using a physical machine, eject the DVD.
(Conditional) If you are using a hypervisor click Enter.
Enter the root username and password at the console to log in to the appliance.
The default value for the username is root and the password is the password you set in Step 11.
Proceed with Section 5.2, Post-Installation Configuration for Analytics Server.
NOTE:For installing Analytics Server in high-availability mode, see Section 5.3.2, Installing Analytics Server in High Availability Environment.
After installing Analytics server if you want to change the password of the Analytics Server administrator, you can run the configure.sh script. The script is available in the /opt/novell/sentinel/setup folder.
Specify the following command at the command line to run the configure.sh script:
./configure.sh
Specify 1 to perform a standard configuration.
To change the existing password, enter 2, specify the new password, confirm the password.
If you want to install multiple NIC and configure multiple IP addresses for Analytics Server, then perform the following steps:
Install Analytics Server with one NIC that is configured with the IP address that must be used for communicating with Administration Console. For installation steps, see Section 5.1.3, Installing Analytics Server.
After the installation completes, configure the other required network interfaces by using YaST.