2.0 Installing or Upgrading CMS

CMS is a separate product with its own installation CD or download, and it is not installed as part of Operations Center server. For information about installing Operations Center, see the Novell Operations Center 5.0 Server Installation Guide.

CMS is a Web-based application that requires access to the Operations Center server. While it can be installed on the same server as Operations Center, it doesn’t need to be on the same host machine.

For hardware and deployment requirements, see Supported Versions and Hardware Requirements in the Novell Operations Center 5.0 Getting Started Guide.

This chapter covers the following CMS installation topics: