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 Ensure that the operating systems for all components of the system are certified platforms and
that the operating system has been hardened by using current best security practices.
If you are installing on SUSE
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the ext3 file system.
For a minimal or headless installation, the operating system for the Sentinel Server machine
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must include at least the Base Server and X Window components of SuSE Linux Enterprise
Server.
If you are installing the Collector Manager on a 64-bit machine, ensure that the 32-bit libraries
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are available. The 32-bit libraries are required when running a Collector that is written in the
proprietary Collector language (this includes almost all Collectors written before June 2008) as
well as when running certain Connectors such as the LEA Connector. JavaScript* based
Collectors and the plug-ins of Sentinel are 64-bit enabled. Verifying the availability of these
libraries is important on Linux platforms, which might not include them by default.
You must install
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Ensure that a Sentinel-certified database is installed. If you are using Oracle, Enterprise Edition

with partitioning is required for the data archive to work. For more information on certified
versions, see
 Get the Sentinel, Crystal Reports Server, and Crystal Reports Developer serial numbers and
license keys from the
regadmin). If you have purchased the optional Advisor exploit detection data feed, verify in the
Customer Center that this data subscription is listed with the rest of your Novell products.
 Install and configure an SMTP server if you want to send e-mail notifications from Sentinel.
Create a directory with ASCII-only characters (and no special characters) from which you want

to run the Sentinel installer.
Provide Power user privileges to the Domain User. For more information, see

"Providing Power User Privileges to Domain Users," on page
Sentinel installations using the full installer should always take place on a clean system. If Sentinel
6.0 was previously installed on any of the machines, Novell recommends that you follow the
uninstallation procedures in
uninstalling previous versions of Sentinel, see the relevant Installation guides on the
Documentation Web site
NOTE: Instructions for upgrading from a previous version of Sentinel 6.0 to Sentinel 6.1 are
included with the patch installer.
Section 3.4.1, "Providing Power User Privileges to Domain Users," on page 33
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Section 3.4.2, "Sentinel Database Installation Prerequisites," on page 33
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 Section 3.4.3, "Authentication Mode Settings on Microsoft SQL," on page 36
Section 3.4.4, "Sentinel Server Installation Prerequisites," on page 37
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Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 10, ensure that SLES is using
package on your Solaris machine before installing Sentinel 6.1.
SUNWxcu4
Chapter 2, "System Requirements," on page
Novell Customer Center (https://secure-www.novell.com/center/
Chapter 9, "Uninstalling Sentinel," on page
(http://www.novell.com/documentation/).
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Section 3.4.1,
33.
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