Installing the SDX-300 Software > Prerequisites

Prerequisites

Before you start to install the SDX software, make sure that you:

• Have identified which SDX components to install on various systems in the network. See Chapter 3, Planning an SDX Installation.
• Are familiar with the information in Chapter 4, Before You Install the SDX-300 Software.
• Have a solid working knowledge of how to work in a UNIX environment, including how to perform tasks such as starting UNIX sessions, issuing commands on the UNIX command-line interface, mounting CDs, navigating through the file structure, and using a text editor to read and modify text files.
• Have administrator root permissions on each host where you plan to install and configure SDX software. A root user is typically a system administrator who has the authority to install software and maintain the system.

If you want authorized users to execute commands as if they had root privileges, you can use the UNIX sudo command to enable these authorized users.

If you want authorized users with nonroot privileges to be able to configure and administer the SDX software, you can create nonroot users and groups with the UNIX admintool utility. See your Solaris documentation for more information. Alternatively, you can use the command described in Silent Mode to create nonroot users and groups.

NOTE: You must install all SDX components as the same administrative user, either all as root or all as the same nonroot user. Installation of some components by the root user and others by a nonroot user causes problems.