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Before installing Prime Cable Provisioning, review the licensing and the installation requirements described in this chapter.
This chapter contains the following sections:
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To access this release, you must procure a new license of Prime Cable Provisioning 5.x. License of older releases (2.x and 4.x) will not work with this release. |
On Solaris
In case of Solaris, you must install Prime Cable Provisioning on a Sun SPARC platform that runs a Solaris 10 operating system and 64 bit hardware system with at least 4 GB memory. We recommend that you use a Sun SPARC multiprocessor platform. Also, you must configure coreadm to avoid overriding of core files. For more information, see Solaris documentation.
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Before installing Prime Cable Provisioning, download and install the recommended Solaris patches from the Oracle support site. Prime Cable Provisioning ships with the required JRE version 1.6.0_32, which resides in the <BPR_HOME>/jre directory. |
You must also download and install the Java Platform Standard Edition (Java SE) cluster patches recommended by Sun Microsystems to install Prime Cable Provisioning on a system that runs Solaris 10. See the following table:
Patch | Description |
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120900-04 | Libzonecfg patch |
121133-02 | Zones library and zones utility patch |
119254-44 | Install and patch utilities patch, for more information, see Installing and Uninstalling Prime Cable Provisioning |
118918-24 | Solaris crypto framework patch |
119042-10 | Svccfg and svcprop patch |
119578-30 | FMA patch |
144488-09 | Kernel patch |
Before you install Prime Cable Provisioning on Solaris, ensure that you install the —SUNWxcu4— package, on the same server. This is an optional package available as part of the Solaris OS installation.
On Linux
In case of Linux, you must install Prime Cable Provisioning on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8 or 6.3, or on CentOS 5.8 or 6.3, using x86-64 (64-bit version of x86), with at least 4 GB memory. The SELinux should be disabled.
# vi /etc/selinux/config
where config—File that controls the state of SELinux on the system. In this file, set the value of SELINUX to disabled.
Before you install Prime Cable Provisioning on Linux, ensure that you install the —sysstat— package, which is an optional package, for the proper execution of the diagnostic scripts. You can configure RDU Redundancy (an optional feature) on RHEL 6.3 platform. For more information on RDU Redundancy, see Setting Up RDU Redundancy.
The hardware requirements for Prime Cable Provisioning varies based on the number of devices available in your network infrastructure. For information on recommended hardware requirements, see https://supportforums.cisco.com/docs/DOC-34641.
Before you install Prime Cable Provisioning, ensure that the requirement for the file system block size and the support for large files in the file system are met.
For optimum performance and reliability of the Prime Cable Provisioning database, configure the file system or systems that contain the database files and database log files with an 8 KB or greater block size. If your system configuration does not support an 8-KB block size, then configure the block size in multiples of 8 KB; for example, 16 KB or 32 KB.
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The block size cannot be changed after the Unix File System (UFS) is mounted with a value. The value has to be set during Solaris disk partition. |
ZFS is a new file system in Solaris 10 OS which provides excellent data integrity and performance compared to other file systems. The default block size for ZFS is 128 KB. In Prime Cable Provisioning, the RDU and DPE support file system with block size of 8 KB to 64 KB. So it is recommended to configure a block size of 8KB for optimal performance.
The installation program prompts you to specify a directory in which to install database files, and database transaction log files. These directories are identified in Prime Cable Provisioning with the system variables BPR_DATA, and BPR_DBLOG, respectively. You can specify the same directory for these, which will contain both database files and database transaction log files.
To verify that a directory resides on a file system with a minimum of 8-KB block size:
File system of all components of Prime Cable Provisioning supports a block size of 4 KB.
You can specify the block size when you create the file system using the command mkfs. For more details on the command mkfs, see man mkfs manual page.
To verify that a directory resides on a file system with a minimum of 4 KB block size run the following command:
# tune2fs -l /dev/sda2 | grep “Block size”
Block size: 4096
In this example, the block size is 4096 bytes, which is 4 KB.
Ensure that the file system in which you place database files is configured to support files larger than 2 GB.
To verify large file support:
To verify large file support:
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Run the following command: # tune2fs -l /dev/sda2 | grep large_file |
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Check whether the intended file system contains the keyword large_file. Filesystem features: has_journal ext_attr resize_inode dir_index filetype needs_recovery extent flex_bg sparse_super large_file huge_file uninit_bg dir_nlink extra_isize In this example, the output contains the keyword large_files. This file system, therefore, can support files larger than 2 GB.
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To install Prime Network Registrar Extension Points, you must install Prime Network Registrar 8.x. |
The following are the prerequisites for installing Prime Network Registrar:
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Prime Network Registrar Extension Points must be installed in the Prime Network Registrar setup and it must be able to communicate with the other Prime Cable Provisioning components. |