To prepare a UNIX machine:
Create a home directory to contain the Operations Center installation files if installing.
Each flavor of UNIX provides its own administration tools for creating users. Refer to your UNIX documentation.
Assign the home directory that is at least 1 to 5 gigabytes in size when specifying the user profile.
Operations Center software, its related components, and the log files they generate can easily require this much space.
Insert the Operations Center Installation CD into the CD drive of the server on which to install Operations Center software.
To mount the Operations Center Installation CD on Solaris, type (as root) the following commands where device path name is the directory path on which Operations Center software is to be installed:
mkdir /cdrom mount /device path name/cdrom
Type CD mount point/install command at the command prompt for Solaris to run the installation program where the CD mount point is the drive in which the installation CD is inserted and the install command is the command for the specific type of installation method.