3. Follow the prompts to complete the installation.
The installation program prompts you for a TCP/IP port number and an IP
address. Specify an IP address, if you want to limit the connection requests that
will be accepted by the utility program. To accept connections from any server,
type INADDR_ANY as the IP address. Also specify the port number that the utility
program will use. These values will be recorded in the smbridge.cfg file for the
automatic startup of the utility program.
To
install the Avocent SMBridge management utility program on a server running a
Linux operating system, complete the following steps . You must be logged in as a
root user to perform these procedures.
1. Go to http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/support/xseries/index.html and
download the management utility program and create the BMC Management
Utility CD.
2. Insert the BMC Management Utility CD into the drive.
3. Type mount/mnt/cdrom.
4. Locate the directory where the installation RPM package is located and type
cd/mnt/cdrom.
5. Type the following command to run the RPM package and start the installation:
rpm -ivh smbridge-2.0-xx.rpm
where xx is the release level being installed.
6. Follow the prompts to complete the installation. When the installation is
complete, the utility copies files to the following directories:
/etc/init.d/SMBridge
/etc/smbridge.cfg
/usr/sbin/smbridged
/var/log/smbridge/LICENSE
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