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Installing NerveCenter

This section guides you through a simple stand-alone installation -- an installation that doesn't involve integration with a network management platform. This allows you to learn how NerveCenter behaves without affecting your network or adding the complications of external network management software. You will not install all the NerveCenter components at this time.

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   For this installation, we recommend installing NerveCenter on a non-production (test) machine suitable for evaluating software. After completing this manual, to comply with your license agreement, uninstall this version before installing NerveCenter on a production machine.

Do not install NerveCenter over an existing version. This book doesn't cover such topics as updating or working with existing files. Those topics are covered in the Upgrading to NerveCenter 3.8 guide that is shipped with NerveCenter.

Finally, though NerveCenter supports SNMP v3, this book does not include instructions for configuring NerveCenter to work with SNMP v2c or v3 agents. You should therefore install on a machine that uses SNMP v1.

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After completing this manual, you can reinstall NerveCenter with all its components and configure the software to work with your network. For example, you may want to monitor nodes by subnet, set up mail or pager capability, integrate NerveCenter with a network management platform, and configure other settings.

Refer to the Release Notes for recent updates about installation.

Section	Description
NerveCenter's Architecture	Describes NerveCenter's main components.
Installing NerveCenter on UNIX	Describes how to install NerveCenter on UNIX systems.
Installing NerveCenter on Windows	Describes how to install NerveCenter on Windows systems.