Information You Need Prior to Installation on UNIX

You need to know your license key. These keys are for a specific number of CPUs. If more cores are detected than the license allows, the installation will be blocked.

The remedy for a core blocked installation is to obtain and use a correct license or use a machine with the correct core count (which may be a real or a virtualized environment).

Some features require additional license codes, but they are not entered during the installation phase.

The product is usually installed from disk from software that has been downloaded and unarchived to disk.

The server has an email notification feature that requires SMTP mail server information. You can enter these parameters either during installation, or later using the Web Console Administration tool.

You need a server administrator user ID, referred to as iadmin in the remainder of this chapter.

• The operating system ID you use when installing the server owns the server files and is the default server administrator for OPSYS mode. You can create a new operating system ID to run and own the server files, or use any ordinary (non-superuser) ID. However, you should not install the server as root. The server administrator ID should have a Korn, Bourne, or Bash shell as the default logon shell.
• Some Linux platforms also support RPM installation. In the context of an RPM installation, all files are owned by root, and the server is started by the root ID.