Preparing Diagnostics Agent Media

For Diagnostics Agent installations you require a Software Provisioning Manager 1.0 archive and a kernel archive.

Prerequisites

You have read the Diagnostics Agent Installation Guide.

For more information, see Installation of Diagnostics Agent on UNIX and Linux.
You have downloaded the Software Provisioning Manager 1.0 SP7 archive or later.

For more information, see Downloading and Extracting the Software Provisioning Manager 1.0 Archive.
You have downloaded the kernel archives that are needed for Diagnostics Agent installations.

For more information, see Diagnostics Agent Download Paths.

Context

In general, you need one Diagnostics Agent on each host to be managed. In case the systems to be managed have been set up using logical host names, it is essential to have one Diagnostics Agent instance for each logical host. The Diagnostics Agent has a kernel of its own, which is completely independent of the kernel of the managed systems available on the host where the Diagnostics Agent is installed.

Procedure

Create a root directory that you can mount centrally.

Example Mount point: /mnt/Repositories/DA/
Extract the Software Provisioning Manager 1.0 archives (InstMaster) to subdirectories of the created root directory.

Example
/mnt/Repositories/DA/SWPM-A/

/mnt/Repositories/DA/SWPM-A/manifest.mf

<Further files and folders from the extracted SWPM .SAR>

The root directory can contain multiple Software Provisioning Manager.
Recommendation Use a unique naming convention for the subdirectories.

For installations that require *.ZIP or *.SAR archives, place them in a separate folder with name "Archives" below the repository root.
Save each extracted Diagnostics Agent kernel archive to an individual subdirectory of the created root directory.

Example
/mnt/Repositories/DA/DA-Kernel-DVD-A/

/mnt/Repositories/DA/DA-Kernel-DVD-A/LABEL.ASC

<Further files and folders from the kernel archive>

The root directory can contain multiple kernel releases.
Recommendation Use a unique naming convention for the subdirectories.

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