Preparing to Install SGM

Table Of Contents

Preparing to Install SGM

Installation Methods

Licensing Information

Supported Platforms

Solaris System Requirements

Solaris Hardware Requirements

Solaris Software Requirements

Solaris Patch Requirements

Solaris 2.7 Patches

Solaris 2.8 Patches

Windows System Requirements

Windows Hardware Requirements

Windows Software Requirements

Cisco IOS Software Requirements

ITP Requirements

MIB Requirements

Preparing to Install SGM

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This chapter can help you plan your installation of SGM. This chapter describes SGM's installation methods, supported platforms, and hardware and software requirements. It includes the following sections:

•Installation Methods

•Licensing Information

•Supported Platforms

•Solaris System Requirements

•Windows System Requirements

•Cisco IOS Software Requirements

•ITP Requirements

•MIB Requirements

Installation Methods

You can install the SGM server and client software on the same workstation or on different workstations. You can install the SGM server and client software locally or remotely using one of the following methods:

•From a locally-mounted CD-ROM drive

•From a Network File System-exported CD-ROM drive

•From the SGM Web server (SGM client software only)

For more information about installing the SGM client software from the Web interface, see the following sections:

•Installing the SGM Client for Solaris Using the Web Server

•Installing the SGM Client for Windows Using the Web Server

Licensing Information

A single license for SGM allows you to install one SGM server and an unlimited number of SGM clients.

SGM recommends a maximum of 20 clients per SGM server. If you connect more than 20 clients to a single server, the server requires additional memory and a more powerful CPU.

Supported Platforms

SGM Release 3.0 supports the following operating system platforms:

•Sun Solaris version 2.7 or version 2.8 with the latest recommended patches from Sun Microsystems, Inc. (SGM server and client)

•Windows 2000 Professional (SGM client only)

•Windows XP Professional (SGM client only)

SGM Release 3.0 supports the following Cisco ITP platforms, configured with the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP):

•Cisco 2600 Series Routers: Cisco 2650, Cisco 2650XM, Cisco 2651, Cisco 2651XM

•Cisco 7204 Series Routers: Cisco 7204, Cisco 7204VXR

•Cisco 7206 Series Routers: Cisco 7206, Cisco 7206VXR

•Cisco 7507 Series Routers: Cisco 7507, Cisco 7507mx, Cisco 7507z

•Cisco 7513 Series Routers: Cisco 7513, Cisco 7513mx, Cisco 7513z

For more information about SNMP, refer to "Configuring SNMP Support" in the Cisco IOS Release 12.2 Configuration Fundamentals Configuration Guide, Part 3, Cisco IOS System Management.

Solaris System Requirements

This section describes the hardware and software requirements to run SGM on a Solaris system. It includes the following sections:

•Solaris Hardware Requirements

•Solaris Software Requirements

•Solaris Patch Requirements

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Note Hardware and software version information is subject to change, based on enhancements to the product. For the most current version information, refer to the Release Notes for Cisco Signaling Gateway Manager available on Cisco.com.

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Solaris Hardware Requirements

Your system must meet the following hardware requirements to run SGM:

System Hardware

For server software only, or for server and client software running together on the same device:

•If your system does not comply with Network Equipment Building Standards (NEBS), use a SunFire V120 or greater with a 500 Mhz processor or greater.

•If your system is NEBS-compliant, use a Netra 120 or greater with a 500 Mhz processor or greater.

•You can use a Sun Ultra 60 or greater, or a Netra T1 or greater, with a 440 Mhz processor or greater, if absolutely necessary, but these devices are not recommended.

•If your network contains more than 50 nodes or 100 links, or if your system uses more than one SGM client, a more powerful CPU is strongly recommended.

•For larger networks, a SunFire 280R, Netra 14XX, or Netra 20 is recommended.

For client software only:

•Sun SunBlade 100 with a 500 Mhz processor or greater.

•You can use a Sun Ultra 5 with a 360 Mhz processor or greater, if absolutely necessary, but this device is not recommended.

To install software, a CD-ROM drive on the server or on a remote host system that can be accessed by the Network File System (NFS).

A color monitor is required if you will run the SGM client on the host system.

A PostScript-compatible printer is required for printing graphs and charts.

Memory (RAM)

For server software only, or for server and client software running together on the same device:

•512 MB RAM is required (768  MB strongly recommended).

•If your network contains more than 50 nodes or 100 links, 1024 MB RAM is required.

•If your system uses more than one SGM client, 768 MB RAM is required.

•If you are running the server and client software on the same device, and you intend to use the client to configure Global Title Translation (GTT) tables, up to 768 MB of additional RAM is required.

For example, a client used to configure 500,000-line GTT tables (the largest supported size) requires at least 768 MB of additional RAM, for a total of at least 1280 MB RAM on the device.

For client software only:

•384 MB RAM is required (512 MB strongly recommended).

•Larger networks require more RAM to maintain performance.

•If you intend to use the client to configure GTT tables, up to 768 MB of additional RAM is required. For example, a client used to configure 500,000-line GTT tables (the largest supported size) requires at least 768 MB of additional RAM, for a total of at least 1152 MB RAM on the client.

Hard Disk Space

For server software only, or for server and client software running together on the same device, 500 MB is required.

For client software only, 75 MB is required (150 MB if installing the client from the SGM Web Server).

If you change the default SGM settings to significantly increase the size of the message archive, additional hard disk space might be required. For more information, see the "Changing the Size of the SGM Message Log File" section in the Cisco Signaling Gateway Manager User Guide.

Swap Space

Swap space of 1024 MB or greater is required (swap space twice the size of RAM is recommended).

CiscoWorks2000 and HP OpenView

SGM does not require either CiscoWorks2000 or HP OpenView, but SGM does integrate with those products to provide added value. The above hardware requirements assume that you are not installing SGM on the same device as CiscoWorks2000 or HP OpenView. If you want to install and operate SGM, CiscoWorks2000, and HP OpenView on the same device at the same time, you need a Sun Ultra 60 or greater, with enough memory and disk space to support the requirements of each product, as specified in its system requirements section.

Solaris Software Requirements

Your system must meet the following software requirements to run SGM:

System Software

Sun Solaris version 2.7 or version 2.8 is required, with the latest recommended patches from Sun Microsystems, Inc., and the required patches for SGM. For a list of the required patches for SGM, see the "Solaris Patch Requirements" section.

•Solaris version 2.7 is equivalent to SunOS version 5.7.

•Solaris version 2.8 is equivalent to SunOS version 5.8.

The SGM installation program automatically verifies your operating system version and checks for the required level of Solaris patches.

Web Browser Software

Netscape Communicator 4.7 or later. Browser software is required to access SGM's online help, to download the SGM client software using the Web interface, and to access the SGM server home page and the Web-based SGM features.

To enable a remote Solaris workstation to access SGM on a local workstation, you can use the xhost + UNIX command. However, performance is better if you access SGM by installing the SGM client on the remote workstation.

OpenWindows

OpenWindows Version 3.7 with CDE is required.

CiscoWorks2000 and HP OpenView

SGM does not require either CiscoWorks2000 or HP OpenView, but SGM does integrate with those products to provide added value.

Solaris Patch Requirements

The Solaris patches listed by version in this section are required to install SGM. These patches can be installed separately or as a jumbo patch from Sun Microsystems, Inc.

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Caution If the required patches are not installed, SGM might not operate as expected.

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To verify the patches installed on your Solaris system, run the showrev -p command. The SGM installation program also checks for these patches automatically, and reports any missing patches.

To obtain the patches, download and install the entire recommended patch cluster for your OS version from the Sun Microsystems Web site:

http://sunsolve.sun.com

Solaris 2.7 Patches

The following minimum patch levels are required to run SGM on Solaris version 2.7.

Patches required for all system configurations:

•Patch 106300-12 or later

•Patch 106327-11 or later

•Patch 106541-18 or later

•Patch 106950-16 or later

•Patch 106980-18 or later

•Patch 107078-10 or later OR Patch 108376-33 or later

•Patch 107081-43 or later

•Patch 107171-10 or later

•Patch 107226-18 or later

•Patch 107332-03 or later

•Patch 107443-14 or later

•Patch 107544-03 or later

•Patch 107656-07 or later

•Patch 108162-05 or later

•Patch 108374-05 or later

•Patch 111113-02 or later

•Patch 112590-01 or later

Patches required for some specific system configurations:

•Patch 107153-01 or later

•Patch 107636-08 or later

•Patch 107702-09 or later

•Patch 107716-16 or later

•Patch 107851-16 or later

Solaris 2.8 Patches

The following minimum patch levels are required to run SGM on Solaris version 2.8.

Patches required for all system configurations:

•Patch 108528-14 or later

•Patch 108827-17 or later

•Patch 108987-09 or later

•Patch 110380-04 or later

•Patch 110662-07 or later

•Patch 110934-05 or later

•Patch 111111-03 or later

•Patch 112396-02 or later

Patches required for some specific system configurations:

•Patch 108652-37 or later

•Patch 108727-09 or later

•Patch 108773-12 or later

•Patch 108921-13 or later

•Patch 108940-40 or later

•Patch 108989-01 or later

•Patch 109154-10 or later

•Patch 111293-04 or later

•Patch 111310-01 or later

•Patch 112003-02 or later

Windows System Requirements

This section describes the hardware and software requirements to run the SGM client on a Windows 2000 Professional or Windows XP Professional system. (You cannot install the SGM server on a Windows system.)

This section includes the following information:

•Windows Hardware Requirements

•Windows Software Requirements

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Note Hardware and software version information is subject to change, based on enhancements to the product. For the most current version information, refer to the Release Notes for Cisco Signaling Gateway Manager available on Cisco.com.

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Windows Hardware Requirements

Your system must meet the following hardware requirements to run the SGM client:

System Hardware

An IBM PC-compatible computer is required, with the following specifications:

•A 500 Mhz or faster Pentium III processor or later.

•A color monitor.

•A CD-ROM drive (ISO 9660-compliant) on the host system, or access to the SGM Web Server.

A PostScript-compatible printer is required for printing graphs and charts.

Memory (RAM)

192 MB minimum is required (256 MB strongly recommended).

If you intend to use the client to configure GTT tables, up to 768 MB of additional RAM is required. For example, a client used to configure 500,000-line GTT tables (the largest supported size) requires at least 768 MB of additional RAM, for a total of at least 1 GB RAM on the client.

Hard Disk Space

50 MB minimum on the drive where you install the SGM client is required (100 MB if installing the client from the SGM Web Server, plus 10 MB minimum on the drive on which you save the downloaded client package).

15 MB minimum on the drive that contains the TEMP directory is required (for InstallShield's temporary files)

10 MB minimum on the drive that contains the Program Files directory is required (for the uninstall files)

Windows Software Requirements

Your system must meet the following software requirements to run SGM:

•System software—Windows 2000 Professional or Windows XP Professional.

•Web browser software—Netscape Communicator version 4.7 or later or Microsoft Internet Explorer version 5.0.1 or later. Browser software is required to access SGM's online help and to download the SGM client software using the Web interface.

Before you install SGM on a Windows system, you should know the following information:

•Name of the host on which the SGM server is installed.

•SGM Naming Server port number. The default is 44742.

If you want to integrate SGM with CiscoWorks2000, you should also know the following information:

•Name of the host on which CiscoWorks2000 is installed.

•CiscoWorks2000 Web Server port number. The default is 1741.

Cisco IOS Software Requirements

To run SGM, or to be manageable by SGM, ITPs must run one of the following Cisco IOS software releases, or a later maintenance release:

•12.2(4)MB4

•12.2(4)MB5

•12.2(4)MB6

•12.2(4)MB7

•12.2(4)MB8

•12.2(4)MB9

•12.2(4)MB10

•If you want SGM to generate detailed accounting statistics reports, the ITPs must run Cisco IOS software release 12.2(4)MB8, or a later maintenance release.

•If you are using multiple instances, or if you want SGM to support the M3UA and SUA protocols, the ITPs must run Cisco IOS software release 12.2(4)MB10, or a later maintenance release.

To see the latest information about the versions of IOS with which SGM is compatible, use one of the following procedures:

•Enter the sgm iosinfo command.

•Select System ITP IOS README from the SGM Server Home Page.

ITP Requirements

When you configure the ITPs, keep the following SGM considerations in mind:

•You must configure the ITPs to use SNMP community names. SGM requires that the names be at least read-only (RO), but read-write (RW) names also work.

•You must enable the ITPs to use both CS7 traps and SNMP traps. (The SGM trap receiver supports SNMP traps for both version v1 and v2c, but not version v3.)

You can also enable the ITPs to use ENVMON traps, to enable SGM to handle and display environmental events, but this is not required.

•The host IP address used for traps must be the SGM server's IP address.

Also, for full access to SGM commands and functions, set the SNMP trap port number to a value greater than 1024. By default, SGM listens for traps from trap multiplexing devices and NMS applications on port 44750, so that is a good port number to choose. The SNMP trap port number must be the same on all ITPs in your network.

•To minimize lost traps, set the length of the message queue for each trap host to at least 100. The more links handled by the host, the higher you should set the queue length. For example, if you have a fully loaded 7507 handling a large number of links, you might set the queue length to 500.

•To enable SGM to log more than one line of Syslog, set the logging history size to 500.

To implement these requirements on an ITP, enter the following IOS commands on the ITP:

snmp-server community public RO

snmp-server enable traps cs7

snmp-server enable traps snmp

snmp-server enable traps envmon

snmp-server host sgm-ip-address public [port-number]

snmp-server queue-length 100

logging history size 500

where:

•public is the SNMP community name the ITP is to use.

•sgm-ip-address is the IP address of the SGM server.

•port-number is the SNMP trap port number of the ITPs and of the SGM server.

For more information about these commands, see the Cisco IOS Configuration Fundamentals Command Reference.

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Note If, in addition to SGM, you are using other network management products to receive traps from ITPs, those ITPs might require additional IOS commands to enable them to use additional traps.

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MIB Requirements

SGM configures and queries the following MIBs:

•MIB-II mib: (1.3.6.1.2.1)

•CISCO-IETF-SCTP-MIB.my: (1.3.6.1.4.1.9.10.75)

•CISCO-IETF-SCTP-EXT-MIB.my: (1.3.6.1.4.1.9.10.76)

•CISCO-ITP-ACL-MIB.my: (1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.227)

•CISCO-ITP-ACT-MIB.my: (1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.230)

•CISCO-ITP-GACT-MIB.my: (1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.333)

•CISCO-ITP-GRT-MIB.my: (1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.334)

•CISCO-ITP-GSCCP-MIB.my: (1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.335)

•CISCO-ITP-GSP-MIB.my: (1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.336)

•CISCO-ITP-GSP2-MIB.my: (1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.332)

•CISCO-ITP-RT-MIB.my: (1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.228)

•CISCO-ITP-SCCP-MIB.my: (1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.233)

•CISCO-ITP-SP-MIB.my: (1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.232)

•CISCO-ITP-SP2-MIB.my: (1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.248)

•CISCO-ITP-TC-MIB.my: (1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.231)

•CISCO-ITP-XUA-MIB.my: (1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.253)

•CISCO-PROCESS-MIB.my: (1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.109)

•CISCO-SYSLOG-MIB.my: (1.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.41)

You can obtain the latest versions of these MIBs from one of the following locations:

•The Zip file mibs.zip, located at the top of the SGM CD Image, contains these MIBs.

•You can download these MIBs from the Cisco Website:

http://www.cisco.com/public/sw-center/netmgmt/cmtk/mibs.shtml

For more information about these MIBs, see the "SGM MIB Reference" section in the Cisco Signaling Gateway Manager User Guide.