Installation

Installation instructions for NerveCenter can be found in the book Installing NerveCenter included with the NerveCenter CD.

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Caution    Before installing NerveCenter 3.7, you should read the sections Outstanding Issues for important information about behaviors that require additional explanation.

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For other information about NerveCenter see the online documentation and the online help.

Additional Step for First-time, OVPA-only Installs

For a first-time, OVPA-only install, users must add one or both of the following two lines to their local /etc/services file (or the /etc/services file on the NIS server, if running NIS):

The first line applies to Operations Center and ITO adapters. The second line applies to OpenView and NetVIew platform adapters. Editing the services file requires root privileges on the host platform.

If you are making these changes on an NIS server, you will need to run 'make services' form the /var/yp directory to push the changes out to NIS clients.

These entries tell the platform adapters which TCP port to open for communications with NerveCenter Servers. If the required entry or entries is absent, the platform adapter will exit on startup with an Accept Socket Error.