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Cisco Media Gateway Controller Node Manager Installation Guide
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Chapter 1 Installation Overview and Planning
Installation Checklist
Disk Drives and Database Storage
In a medium or large network, using multiple disk drives to store databases helps alleviate I/O
bottlenecks and improves software performance. If you are using multiple disk drives for database
storage, or you expect to generate large database files, use raw partitions, as described in the Cisco
Element Management Framework Installation and Administration Guide at
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/net_mgmt/element_manager_system/3.2_service_pack_7/installatio
n/guide/3_2p7adm.pdf
Note
If you are using UNIX File System (UFS) partitions, installing more than one drive for database storage
does not improve performance because the databases cannot span multiple partitions.
Installation Checklist
This checklist summarizes the tasks required for an initial installation of Cisco MNM. The procedures
for completing each task are provided in the following chapter.
We recommend that you print out the checklist and use it during the installation. Perform the tasks in
sequence unless otherwise noted.
Before You Begin
Read the release notes. If information there differs from what is presented here, use the information in
the release notes.
You can find installation tasks in
Table 1-3
.
Table 1-3
Installation Tasks
Task
Description
Determine Your Hardware Requirements
.
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Task 1: Gather Installation Software and
Required Information
.
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Task 2: Ensure That Network Devices Have the
Correct Software
.
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Task 3: Plan and Execute Hard Drive
Partitioning
.
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Task 4: Ensure That the Sun Solaris 10 Operating
System Is Installed
.
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Task 5: Make System Configurations
.
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Task 6: Obtain a Cisco EMF License
.
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