Installing And Configuring The External Database For Oracle; Install The Client-Side Script - VMware VCENTER APPLICATION DISCOVERY MANAGER 6.1 - REPOSITORY Reference Manual

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Perl with the Archive::Zip module:
Perl is bundled with RHEL 4.0, but the Archive::Zip module for handling Zip files needs to be installed
manually.
To verify that the Archive::Zip module is loaded, run the following:
perl -MArchive::Zip -e 'print'
If the result is: Archive::Zip module is installed, then the module is installed correctly.
If the result starts with: canʹt find Archive/Zip, then it is not installed.
To install this, execute the following command from the command prompt, with root permissions:
cpan -i Archive::Zip
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Perl with Expect module:
To install, run the following:
yum install perl-Expect
MS SQL as the External Database
Ensure the system meets the following requirements when using MS SQL as the external database:
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Windows 2003 Service Pack 2
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MS SQL 2005
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psftp installed and added to the PATH env properties
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Perl with the Archive::Zip module
Common Perl distribution for Windows is ActivePerl from ActiveState. The necessary Archive::Zip
module is bundled with ActivePerl.

Installing and Configuring the External Database for Oracle

Use the following procedures to install and configure the external database for Oracle.

Install the Client-Side Script

To install the Client-side script
1 Copy the ADM external database installation file (adm_olap_
ADM version and build number) from http://downloads.vmware.com/Application Discovery Manager.
2 Log in to the Linux Server.
3 Change directories to the location of the installation file.
4 Unzip the adm_olap_v.X.X-XXX.zip to a directory of your choice.
A directory named adm_olap is created with all the client‐side scripts in it.
5 Change the adm_olap directory permission to allow read access to all users.
To enable read permission, in Linux run:
chmod 777 -R adm_olap
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