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Install with Disabled SAN Drives

CA User Activity Reporting Module is currently supported using fixed hardware configurations provided by Dell, IBM, and HP. The following example assumes that the hardware consists of HP Blade Servers using a QLogic Fiber Channel card to connect to a storage area network (SAN) for data storage. The HP Blade Servers come with SATA hard drives configured in RAID-1 (mirrored) configuration.

If you use the kickstart boot file as is, be sure to disable the SAN drives before beginning the installation. Start the installation process with the OS5 DVD and complete the installation as documented.

Note: If you do not start the installation with the SAN drives disabled, CA User Activity Reporting Module is installed on the SAN. In this case, a red screen appears with the message, Illegal Opcode, after CA User Activity Reporting Module reboots.

Use the following sequence of procedures to install a CA User Activity Reporting Module appliance on a system with SAN drives, where you disable the SAN drives before installing the operating system.

  1. Disable the SAN drives.
  2. Install the operating system on the appliance.
  3. Install the CA User Activity Reporting Module server.
  4. Set up a multipath configuration for SAN storage.
  5. Create a logical volume.
  6. Prepare the logical volume for CA User Activity Reporting Module.
  7. Recycle the CA User Activity Reporting Module.
  8. Verify installation success.

When installing the operating system with disabled SAN drives, you work with the following files:

lvm.conf

The configuration file for the Linux Logical Volume Manager (LVM2).

multipath.conf (/etc/multipath.conf)

The configuration file for Linux multipathing.

fstab (/etc/fstab)

The file systems table file that maps devices to directories in a Linux system.

More Information:

Disable the SAN Drives

Install CA User Activity Reporting Module

Set Up a Multipath Configuration for SAN Storage

Create a Logical Volume

Prepare the Logical Volume for CA User Activity Reporting Module

Recycle the CA User Activity Reporting Module Server

Verify the CA User Activity Reporting Module Server Installation