Review Requirements for Solaris Zones Management

Review the following requirements before configuring the management components of :
casa
Review the following requirements before configuring the management components of
Server Automation
:
  • You are familiar with TCP/IP, SNMP, web services, and Windows Server operating systems.
  • You are familiar with
    Server Automation
     and
    CA SystemEDGE
    .
  • You can access a
    Server Automation
     manager installation that includes:
    • Platform Management Module (PMM)
    • Application Insight Module (AIM)
    • Monitoring Agent (
      CA SystemEDGE
      )
  • You can access the
    Server Automation
     user interface.
  • You have valid credentials (user name and password) to access the servers in the environment that you want to manage.
  • You know which protocol (HTTP or HTTPS) and port to use to access the server in your environment through web services. Default: HTTPS, Port: 443.
  • You verified that the servers in your environment are running properly.
  • If the PMM and AIM are installed on different systems, verify that the SNMP settings on the PMM and AIM systems are consistent. Read and write community strings and SNMP port number must be identical.
  • You verified that the
    Server Automation
     manager discovered remote AIM Servers that you want to use.
Verify if the user account that
Server Automation
requires for Solaris Zones management meets the following settings and permissions on the Solaris Server:
  • The prompt of the user on the Solaris server must be "#" (default).
  • The Solaris user requires privileges to execute the following commands:
    • zlogin
    • zoneadm
    • zonecfg
  • From the global zone, the user must have the permission to log in to individual Solaris Zones with zlogin and run the following commands:
    • uname -a
    • sar
    • prstat
    • netstat
  • Using the user interface or the NodeCfgUtil.exe utility on the Managed Node where the Solaris Zones AIM resides, add this user name and the corresponding password to 
    Server Automation
    during configuration. You can specify the additional feature in the user name field when using NodeCfgUtil.exe utility and the syntax is as follows:
    cassh://ZoneHost:sshPort?authMethod=[Password|PublicKey]&username=nonRootUser[&sudo][&sshPublicKeyFile=publicKeyFileName][&sshPrivateKeyFile=privateKeyFileName]
    • authMethod=[Password|Publickey]
      Specifies the type of authentication method. The Default authentication method is password.
    • username
      Specifies the user name to log in to the Zone host.
    • sudo
      Specifies the AIM to run sudo after the user logs in as defined in the user name parameter.
    • sshPublicKeyFile=
      publicKeyFileName
      sshPrivateKeyFile=
      privateKeyFileName
      Specifies the AIM to use sudo before running any command on the Zone host.
  • Create a resource pool from Explore, Management, Create Resource Pool to allocate resources to zones, projects, and applications on a Solaris Zones server. Assign it to a zone during zone creation.