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Installing Managed System Software On
Supported Linux And VMware ESX
The Systems Management installer supports both 32-bit and 64-bit architecture. The following table
explains the operating system installation matrix for Systems Management.
Table 4. Operating System Installation Matrix
Operating System Architecture 32-bit Architecture 64-bit Architecture
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 64-
bit
Not Supported Install
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 32-
bit
Install or Upgrade Not supported
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 64-
bit
Not supported Install
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
(SLES) 11 SP 3 64-bit
Not supported Install
ESX 4.1 U3 64-bit Install Not supported
ESXi 4.1 U3 64-bit Not supported Install
ESXi 5.1 U2 64-bit Not supported Install
ESXi 5.0 U3 64-bit Not supported Install
ESXi 5.5 64-bit Not supported Install
NOTE: On a Systems Management upgrade, it is recommended to upgrade to the latest open
source components available on the DVD.
NOTE: If you are upgrading the operating system to a major version (from SLES 10 to SLES 11),
uninstall the existing version of Systems Management and install the supported version.
NOTE: Before you migrate to a 64-bit version of Systems Management software, make sure to
uninstall the 32-bit Systems Management and other OpenSource components (openwsman-server,
openwsman-client, libwsman1, sblim-sfcb, sblim-sfcc, libcmpiCppImpl0, libsmbios2, smbios-
utils-bin
) installed as part of the 32-bit Systems Management.
NOTE: The Inventory Collector RPM (srvadmin-cm) requires the following RPMs to be preinstalled
on servers prior to 11G running supported 64-bit Linux operating system.
• glibc.i686
• compat-libstdc++.i686
• libstdc++.i686
• zlib.i686libxml2.i686
If the dependent RPMs are not installed then Inventory Collector will not function as expected and
exits with error messages.
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