Installing The Ca Arcserve Agent - Overland Storage SnapServer Administrator's Manual

SnapServer 7.0 Administrator's Guide

Installing the CA ARCserve Agent

This section explains how to install the CA ARCserve Agent versions 11.5 and 12.0.
Consider these important points:
• This procedure assumes that you are using the default SnapServer configuration; and
you have created a directory called agent (to which to copy your agent/client files) on
the default share (SHARE1), such that the path to the directory is
/shares/SHARE1/agent.
• Installing the ARCserve backup agent on a SnapServer requires three agent (*.rpm)
files. These agent files are available from your ARCserve CD, but some ARCserve
CDs may not contain all the required files. To obtain the files you need, contact
Computer Associates. If you have questions about the agent configuration, refer to
your CA ARCserve documentation.
Prepare the SnapServer
1. Connect to the SnapServer via SSH.
NOTE: SSH v2 is required. If you fail to connect to the server, ensure that your SSH client is
2. At the prompt, log in as
the initial setup of the server.
3. You are placed into the CLI shell. However, a standard Linux shell must be used to
install the agent. To launch a shell, type the following command and press Enter:
osshell
4. To change to superuser, enter the following command, and press
su -
5. At the prompt, enter the admin user password, and press
6. To change to the agent directory, type the following command and press
cd /shares/SHARE1/agent
7. To unpack the tar file to get the agent files, type the following command and press
Enter:
tar -zxvf Linux.tar.Z
NOTE: If you later delete the volume this directory is on, you will need to reinstall the agent.
8. Determine which volume has the most available space by looking at the
column in the volume usage table.
cd /hd
ls
df -h
9. Change directory to the volume with the most available space.
cd
where [volumename] is the volume with the most available space.
10. Create a directory
11. Create the following symbolic links from the new directories in arcserve to the
/opt
ln -s /hd
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configured to connect via SSH v2.
admin,
(lists all volumes)
(shows volume usage)
[volumename]
arcserve
directory:
[volumename]
/arcserve /opt/CA
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using the password you created for this account during
on that volume.
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