Setting Up Reservation Manager › Prerequisites › Prepare Your Environment for Reservation Manager

Prepare Your Environment for Reservation Manager

Before you set up Reservation Manager, prepare your environment by collecting the following information:

1. Identify the systems to include in the Reservation Manager inventory for fulfilling reservation requests. Required system information includes the following:
   • MAC address
   • Default password for Windows, AIX, Solaris, or Linux
   • Network Interface Controller model
2. Verify that the required Network Interface Controller device driver is available in one or more of the OS images that will be made available to users.
3. Identify the operating systems and versions to deploy.
4. Confirm CA ITCM support for each Windows and Linux operating environment.
5. Confirm Solaris JumpStart server support for Solaris operating systems.
6. Confirm NIM server support for AIX operating systems.
7. Confirm your HMC/IVM server support for IBM PowerVM logical partitions.
8. Identify all users to grant access to Reservation Manager. Confirm the following:
   • Reservation Manager administrator users
   • Reservation Manager end users
9. If you are using native CA EEM security, verify that all users are defined in the CA EEM database.