CHAPTER 1
Introduction
Installation Process Overview
Management System Installation Process
Copyright © 2010, Juniper Networks, Inc.
This chapter provides you with the information you need to install Network and Security
Manager (NSM) and integrate it into your network. It provides an overview of the NSM
installation process. It also reviews minimum hardware and software requirements and
options for configuring the management system to provide enhanced functionality,
performance, and scalability.
This chapter contains the following sections:
Installation Process Overview on page 3
Installation Package on page 4
Minimum System Requirements on page 5
Choosing Standalone, Distributed, or High Availability Configurations on page 7
Other Configuration Options on page 9
Next Steps on page 11
NSM is software that enables you to integrate and centralize management of your Juniper
Networks environment.
You need to install two main software components that you need to install to run NSM:
the NSM management system and the NSM user interface (UI).
The overall process for installing NSM is as follows:
Management System Installation Process on page 3
User Interface Installation Process on page 4
The management system installer enables you to install all the software required to run
each component of the NSM management system.
The management system installer is a shell archive script that you can run on any of the
following dedicated platforms that meets minimum requirements:
Solaris 10 (for SPARC)
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