Chapter 2. Installing The System Information Center Program On A Server; Installation Requirements; Server Requirements - Lenovo ThinkPad G40 Administrator's Manual

Chapter 2. Installing the System Information Center program
on a server
The server portion of the System Information Center program is a Java-based Web
application. Instead of interacting directly with the operating system, the server
portion interacts with components such as Java, the Web application server, and
the built-in SQL-compliant database.
This chapter guides you through the steps of configuring the server portion of the
System Information Center program and the installation of the System Information
Center program itself. Two IBM programs (Java SDK and the IBM Cloudscape
database) are included in the installation. During the installation of the System
Information Center program, you will make a brief detour to download the
Apache Tomcat Web application server, which is free on the Internet. You need to
have entitlement for the operating system and software you are using.
If you choose to use any SQL database or Web application server other than IBM
Cloudscape and Apache Tomcat, you can receive fee-based support through IBM
Global Services. For more information, see Chapter 7, "Getting help and support,"
on page 49.
This chapter describes the following information about installing the System
Information Center program:
v "Installation requirements"
v "Installing and configuring a Windows server" on page 6
v "Installing the System Information Center program" on page 7
v "Securing your network with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) security" on page 12

Installation requirements

To successfully install the server portion of the System Information Center
program, you must install it on a dedicated, single-function server that has no
other applications running on the server platform.

Server requirements

The computer on which you install System Information Center must have the
following items or capability:
v At least a 550MHz Intel
v A minimum of 1 GB of memory
v At least 3 GB of hard disk space for the operating system and required
v A network card that supports TCP/IP
In addition, you must have the following items or capability:
v A Microsoft Windows 2000 Server or Windows Server 2003 operating system
v A fixed IP address to assign to the Web application server (and if required, a
v An IBM System Information Center installation CD
v Access to the Internet for downloading additional software
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applications plus 2 MB per client
fixed subnet mask address and default gateway address)
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