Table Of Contents - Novell PLATESPIN ORCHESTRATE 2.0.2 - INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION GUIDE 10-09-2009 Installation And Configuration Manual

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About This Guide
1 Planning the Orchestrate Server Installation
1.1 PlateSpin Orchestrate Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
1.1.1 Orchestrate Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
1.1.2 Required Network Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
1.1.3 Orchestrate Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
1.1.4 VM Hosts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
1.1.5 Orchestrate VM Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
1.1.6 Other Orchestrate Clients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
1.2 Component Installation Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
2 Installation and Configuration
2.1 Installation Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
2.2 Installing and Configuring All PlateSpin Orchestrate Components Together. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
2.2.1 Installation and Configuration Steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
2.2.2 PlateSpin Orchestrate Configuration Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
2.2.3 Correcting Configuration Errors and Repeating the Configuration Process . . . . . . . 35
2.2.4 Installing and Configuring the Orchestrate Server for Use with a PostgreSQL Audit
Database on a Different Host . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
2.2.5 Installing and Configuring the Orchestrate Server for Use with a Local PostgreSQL
Audit Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
2.2.6 Configuring the Audit Database After PlateSpin Orchestrate Is Configured . . . . . . . 43
2.2.7 Configuring the Remote Audit Database after PlateSpin Orchestrate Is Configured. 44
2.2.8 Modifying Audit Database Tables to Accommodate Long Names. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
2.3 Installing the Orchestrate Agent Only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
2.3.1 Installing the Orchestrate Agent Using the Product ISO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
2.3.2 Installing the Orchestrate Agent from the Administrator Information Page . . . . . . . . 60
2.3.3 Performing a Silent Install of the PlateSpin Orchestrate Agent on Multiple Network
Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
2.3.4 Installing the PlateSpin Orchestrate Agent on Other Supported Operating Systems 68
2.3.5 Automatically Installing the Orchestrate Agent on a VM Host Using a Job . . . . . . . . 72
2.4 Installing the Orchestrate Development Client Only. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
2.4.1 Installing the Orchestrate Development Client for Windows from the Administrator
Information Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
2.4.2 Using the ISO to Install the Orchestrate Development Client on Windows Machines 77
2.4.3 Installing the Orchestrate Development Client for SLES 10 From the Administrator
Information Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
2.4.4 Using the ISO to Install the Orchestrate Client on SLES 10 Machines . . . . . . . . . . . 78
2.4.5 Using the ISO to Install the Orchestrate Client on SLES 11 Machines . . . . . . . . . . . 79
2.5 Installing the Orchestrate VM Client. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
2.5.1 Minimum Installation Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
2.5.2 Installing the Orchestrate VM Client on the Windows Operating System . . . . . . . . . 83
2.5.3 Installing Orchestrate VM Client in a Linux Environment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
2.6 Uninstalling the VM Client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
2.6.1 Uninstalling the Orchestrate VM Client from the Windows Operating System . . . . . 93
2.6.2 Uninstalling Orchestrate VM Client in a Linux Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
2.7 Determining the Product Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
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