System requirements
Before installing the product, verify that the target computers meet the requirements listed in the following table. This section provides release-specific information about requirements and supported resources for PATROL for AIX.
Supported operating systems
Following table lists the operating systems that are supported by PATROL for AIX.
Supported operating system | Comments |
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IBM® AIX® 6.1, 64-bit hardware, 64-bit kernel, 64-bit ABI |
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IBM® AIX® 7.1, 64-bit hardware, 64-bit kernel, 64-bit ABI | |
IBM® AIX® 7.2, 64-bit hardware, 64-bit kernel, 64-bit ABI |
Supported Linux operating systems for AIX remote monitoring
Cross platform monitoring is supported from Linux based PATROL Agent. Following table lists the operating systems that are supported by PATROL for AIX.
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 7.0, 7.1 (64-bit versions) |
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 Service Pack 2, Service Pack 4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 |
Red Hat subscription
The product requires some additional libraries to be present on the system (see list below).
The preferred method to add any missing libraries is to use the yum command to fetch the necessary library packages from the RHN (Red Hat Network) repository via the Internet. To use this method, a Red Hat subscription is needed. Register the system by clicking System >Administration > Red Hat Subscription Manager in the menu on the server itself. After registering the system, you can use yum install to download and install the required libraries from the RHN.
Required libraries
Ensure that the following libraries are present to install the Presentation Server. To install the libraries, use the following commands.
Supported BMC products
Accounts
You must create a dedicated user account before PATROL is installed. Use this account as your PATROL default account. The PATROL account must conform to the following guidelines:The [confluence_table-plus] macro is a standalone macro and it cannot be used inline.