Installing MegaRAID Storage Manager Software on RHEL, SLES, or SuSE Linux

To install MegaRAID Storage Manager software on a system running Red Hat Linux 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 5.9, 6.0, 6.3, 6.6, 6.7, 7.0, and 7.1 operating system or SuSE Linux or SLES 9, 10, 11, 11 SP2, 11 SP3, 11 SP4, and 12 operating systems, follow these steps:

NOTE  For installing the MegaRAID Storage Manager software on an SLES 64-bit platform, you need to create certain symbolic links that are mentioned in .

1.	Copy the MSM_linux_installer-11.02.00-00.tar.gz file to a temporary directory.

2.	Extract the MSM_linux_installer-11.02.00-00.tar.gz file using the following command:

tar -zxvf MSM_linux_installer-11.02.00-00-...tar.gz

This action creates a new disk directory.

3.	Go to the new disk directory.

4.	In the disk directory, find and read the readme.txt file.

5.	To start the installation, enter the following command:

csh install.csh -a

The above command works only if the csh shell is installed; otherwise, use the following command:

install.csh

If you select the Client installation for a computer used to monitor servers, and if there are no available servers with a registered framework on the local subnet (that is, servers with a complete installation of MegaRAID Storage Manager software), the server screen appears. The server screen does not list any servers. You can use this screen to manage systems remotely.

To install the software using interactive mode, run the command ./install.csh from the installation disk.

To install the product in a non-interactive or silent mode, use the command ./install.csh [‑options] [-ru popup] from the installation disk. The following are the installation options:

Complete installation

Client Component Only

StandAlone

Local mode

Server

The -ru popup command removed pop-up from the installation list.

You also can run a non-interactive installation using the RunRPM.sh command.

The installer offers the following setup options:

Complete

This option installs all the features of the product.

Client Components Only

The Storelib feature of the product is not installed in this type of installation. As a result, the resident system can only administer and configure all of the servers in the subnet but it cannot serve as a server.

StandAlone

Only the networking feature is not installed in this case, so the resident system is not a part of the network. This implies that the system cannot browse any other MegaRAID Storage Manager servers in the subnet, and the MegaRAID Storage Manager servers cannot recognize it as a server.

Local mode

This option enables you to view only the workstation that has the MegaRAID Storage Manager software installed. You will not be able to discover other remote servers and other remote servers will also not be able to connect to your workstation. In a local mode installation, you will be using the loopback address instead of the IP address.

Server

This option installs components required for remote server management.

This installation helps you select any of the setup types, but if you run RunRPM.sh, it installs the complete feature.

NOTE  To install and run the MegaRAID Storage Manager software on RHEL 5, you must disable SELinux.